Karl Georg Pfleiderer

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Karl Georg Pfleiderer (born May 10, 1899 in Stuttgart , † October 8, 1957 in Bonn ) was a German politician of the FDP / DVP and a diplomat .

Life and work

After graduating from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , Pfleiderer studied law in Tübingen . There he was a member of the Tübingen student association “ Akademische Gesellschaft Stuttgardia ”, which shaped southern German liberalism . Here he met later political companions such as Eberhard Wildermuth , Reinhold Maier , Konrad Wittwer and Wolfgang Haußmann . After completing his studies, legal clerkship and doctorate, he joined the Foreign Office in 1922 . He joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1935, while the NSDAP was still in suspension of membership . In 1941 and 1942 he was in the Wehrmacht and, according to his own statements, took part “in the campaign in the east as a cavalry master ”. He then returned to the Foreign Office and was promoted to the Legation Council until 1943 and Consul General in 1945. It was used in Beijing , Moscow , Leningrad , Katowice and Stockholm until 1945, interrupted by assignments at the headquarters in Berlin . In the Foreign Office he met Adam von Trott zu Solz and joined the wider circle of conspirators of July 20, 1944 , without being one of the defining figures there.

From 1948 to 1950, Pfleiderer was District Administrator of the district Waiblingen . In the federal election in 1949 he ran in the federal constituency of Waiblingen , received 40.3 percent of the vote and moved into the 1st Bundestag . In the federal election in 1953 he received 32.9 percent of the vote there and again entered the Bundestag. He resigned this mandate on September 20, 1955 (more in the Politics section). Pfleiderer soon became ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Yugoslavia ; In 1957 he died unexpectedly.

Ten days after Pfleiderer's death, the Federal Republic of Germany broke off diplomatic contacts with Yugoslavia in accordance with the Hallstein Doctrine because the GDR had recognized it under international law. Pfleiderer had always spoken out against the Hallstein Doctrine.

politics

Pfleiderer was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to September 1955. For the first federal election (August 1949) it was nominated by the DVP, although at that time he was not yet a DVP member. He joined the DVP parliamentary group immediately after the election and a short time later also the DVP. Pfleiderer represented in the first Bundestag (1949-1953) and the 1953 bis 1955 as directly selected delegates of the constituency Waiblingen in the Bundestag. He resigned the mandate on September 20, 1955 in order to re-enter the diplomatic service.

On September 2, 1952, Pfleiderer issued a memorandum calling for a pan-European security system taking into account the interests of the Soviet Union with a united Germany integrated into it, excluding the areas beyond the Oder-Neisse border . On April 8, 1954 (a good year after Stalin's death) he demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, which led to a serious coalition crisis with the CDU / CSU, which almost broke the coalition . His thoughts anticipated the new Ostpolitik of the social-liberal federal government later co-designed by the FDP .

Gottlob Kamm , former SPD state minister , was Pfleiderer's only promising opponent among the direct candidates in 1953. Pfleiderer was also directly elected in 1953 - with 32.9 percent of the vote.

On April 1, 1951, Pfleiderer, Gerhard Lütkens ( SPD ), Paul Bausch ( CDU ) and Josef-Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött ( CSU ) founded the German Parliamentary Society ; Pfleiderer was its first chairman from 1951 to 1954.

Honors

In the Hertmannsweiler district of the city of Winnenden , a street is named after Pfleiderer.

Works

  • Politics for Germany. Speeches and essays. Stuttgart, 1961 (posthumously).

literature

  • Jörg Brehmer : What will happen to Germany? On the life and thinking of the liberal district administrator Karl Georg Pfleiderer (= series of publications by the Reinhold Maier Foundation. Volume 30, ZDB -ID 135846-7 ). Reinhold Maier Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg Regional Office, Stuttgart 2003.
  • Martin Jung:  Pfleiderer, Karl Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 351 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Volume 3: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 472 f.
  • Karl-Heinz Schlarp : Alternative to German Foreign Policy 1952–1955. Karl Georg Pfleiderer and the German Question. In: Wolfgang Benz , Hermann Graml (ed.): Aspects of German foreign policy in the 20th century. Essays by Hans Rothfels on the memory (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Special issue). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-421-01783-2 , pp. 211–248
  • Klaus Scholder : Karl Georg Pfleiderer. The liberal district administrator, politician and diplomat (= series of publications by the Reinhold Maier Foundation. Volume 6). Reinhold Maier Foundation, Stuttgart 1979.
  • Hans-Heinrich Jansen: Karl Georg Pfleiderer's counter-drafts to Adenauer's policy in Germany. In: Historical-Political Messages . 4, 1997, pp. 35-71 (PDF: full text , abstract pp. 68-70 ).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pfleiderer, Karl Georg, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Pabst to Pytlik] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 936 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 221 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Ostpolitik: Sample case Tito . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1957 ( online ). - According to this article, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano (1901–1963), State Secretary Walter Hallstein (1901–1982) and Wilhelm Grewe (1911–2000) were the main advocates of the Hallsteion Doctrine.
  3. ↑ During the Bundestag election campaign in 1953, the following quip from one of the voters was published in a Waiblinger newspaper: “Actually, Kamm is my husband because he can drink so well. But I choose Pfleiderer, because he's much smarter. "
personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Karl Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP / DVP), Member of the Bundestag and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1957
Place of death Bonn