Joseph Pfleger (politician, 1872)

Joseph Pfleger

Franz Joseph Pfleger (born August 31, 1872 in Pressath , † February 4, 1964 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) was a German lawyer and politician ( BVP , center , CSU ). He can also be found under Franz Josef Pfleger , Franz Pfleger and Josef Pfleger .

Life

Pfleger was born in Pressath in 1872 as the son of a farmer and businessman, where he attended elementary school from 1878 to 1883. Then he attended the Kgl. Humanistic high school in Amberg , where he passed the Abitur in 1891, and then he went to the University of Munich . He studied law and political science and received his doctorate in 1896 on the subject of the actual results of the Reichsbörsenenquete . After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in Weiden from 1899.

Weimar Republic

Former church of St. Augustin with an attached and also closed monastery and study seminar, which nurses support for life.

Pfleger wrote several essays and papers. As a member of the center, he was a member of the Reichstag for the first time from 1912 to 1918 , in which he represented the constituency of Upper Palatinate 5 ( Neustadt an der Waldnaab ). and later as a member of the Bavarian People's Party again for constituency 25 ( Lower Bavaria ) from 1924 to 1933 and also from 1924 to 1928 in the Bavarian state parliament . It was during this time that he began his lifelong commitment to the St. Augustin Catholic study seminar in Weiden.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the Nazi era , Pfleger continued to work as a lawyer. Since he also represented Jews in his practice, his office and apartment were devastated as part of the November pogroms in 1938 (Reichskristallnacht) and nurses were arrested several times. The then acting Lord Mayor Weidens Hans Harbauer applied for the initiation of the procedure and the deletion from the list of lawyers . In 1943 he was forcibly retired by decree of the Reich Minister of Justice , and in 1944 his license was withdrawn.

Post-war years

After the war he joined the CSU and on May 22, 1945 was appointed provisional 1st mayor of the city of Weiden by the commander of the 11th US Armored Division ( US military government ) with the consent of the Social Democrats . During the initial contact for negotiations on this matter, Pfleger was clearly insecure and cautious. The locksmith Nikolaus Rott (SPD) became provisional 2nd mayor. Xaver Heuberger and Gottlieb Linz (both later re-founders of the Weiden SPD) became advisors. In June 1946 he was elected to the office of Lord Mayor by the elected city council and remained there until June 1948. He was a member of the Bavarian State Constitutional Assembly, and from 1946 age-president of the Bavarian State Assembly.

From 1948 he worked as a lawyer again. His son Franz later joined his office .

Joseph Pfleger died at the age of 92. His granddaughter Anne, married Brünnig, is now also the third generation of the law firm.

Awards / honors

1927: Honorary membership of the Catholic study seminar St. Augustin, Weiden
July 4, 1952: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
March 27, 1953: Honorary citizenship of the city of Weiden
Naming of Dr.-Pfleger-Straße , Weiden

literature

Ernst Rudolf Huber , Gustav Schmidt: German constitutional history since 1789. Volume 6, 1: Ernst Rudolf Huber: The Weimar Imperial Constitution. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1981, ISBN 3-17-001056-5 .
Hartmut Mehringer , Anton Grossmann , Klaus Schönhoven : The parties KPD, SPD, BVP in persecution and resistance . From the series Bavaria in the Nazi era (Volume V); Oldenbourg Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-48-642401-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Josef Pfleger in the catalog of the German National Library
Joseph Pfleger in the database of members of the Reichstag
Pfleger, (Franz) Joseph in the Federal Archives
Defied the Nazis - Petra intent on Dr. Franz Josef Pfleger

Individual evidence

↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin: 1913, p. 96 ( Statistics of the German Reich , Vol. 250); see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1041-1044.

^ Attorney Pfleger represented the Jew Hausmann , Der neue Tag , June 10, 2003.

↑ Our office ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Brünnig - Michler law firm, Weiden.

^ A lawyer with a big heart - Franz Pfleger dies at the age of 91 , OberpfalzNetz.de, June 15, 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Nurse, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pfleger, Franz Joseph (full name); Nurse, Franz Josef; Pfleger, Franz; Nurse, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (BVP, Center, CSU), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pressath
DATE OF DEATH	4th February 1964
Place of death	Willows in the Upper Palatinate

[1] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin: 1913, p. 96 ( Statistics of the German Reich , Vol. 250); see also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1041-1044.

[2] Attorney Pfleger represented the Jew Hausmann , Der neue Tag , June 10, 2003.