Kurt Fürer

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Kurt Fürer (1966)

Kurt Fürer (born August 24, 1900 in Ehringen , Hessen-Nassau ; † September 12, 1988 in Kassel ) was a German business lawyer.

Life

As the third child of the reformed pastor Wilhelm-August Fürer , Kurt Fürer attended secondary school in Schmalkalden from 1909 . In 1911 he came to the Friedrich Wilhelm School (Eschwege) . In 1912 he joined the Alt-Wandervogel . After graduating from high school in May 1918, he decided to become a soldier; as a flag boy , however, he was dismissed by a workers 'and soldiers' council .

medicine

He studied medicine for three semesters at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In the Spartacus uprising , he joined the Göttingen Resident Defense. For family reasons, he moved to the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in the winter semester of 1919/20 . There he initiated the establishment of the Hochschulring Deutscher Art , which was constituted at a huge assembly in the Aula Leopoldina in early 1920 and soon won the majority in the AStA . By Carl Meinecke recommended renoncierte Furer on June 15th 1920 at the Corps Borussia Wroclaw . Friedrich Fechner and Georg Heimann-Trosien were among his communicators . Probably at the urging of the old rulers, Fürer became a corps bow bearer on November 1, 1920 . As a result, he was able to better represent the Senior Citizens' Convention in Breslau vis-à-vis the University and the Technical University of Breslau , among the free students and in general with the German Waffenring . Fürer - great-grandson of a Marburg Hessian and grandson of a Marburg Teuton  - was reciprocated on February 3, 1921. He fought 14 lengths and a saber part. His unbiased affection for all corporations - including the (striking) Jewish connections  - earned him a lot of sympathy from the Breslau corps.

Economics and Law

Kurt Fürer as a Breslau Prussian (1924)

Before he took up the Physikum in the summer semester of 1921 , he decided on May 2 to fight the uprisings in Upper Silesia with some Corps brothers and friends in the Hochschulring in the self-defense of Upper Silesia . When he returned in June 1921, he had missed the exams and incurred the displeasure of his corps. With special support from the rector , he switched to law and economics ; several lectures and semesters were recognized. Due to disagreements with his active corps, Fürer was dismissed from his corps boys' convent at the end of 1921 without a band .

His doctoral thesis dealt with the red-hot problems of German inflation from 1914 to 1923 . Before it was completed and before the exam, Friedrich Eichberg brought him to the Association of Wroclaw Employers' Associations in May 1922 as assistant to the management . In the so-called Association House he was an employee of Hans-Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig and (indirectly) of Carl Meinecke . In August 1922 - at the age of 22 - he was appointed to the management, in October 1922 he became Dr. rer. pole. PhD . On March 1, 1923, he moved to the management of the Central Office of Silesian Employers' Associations. At the 105th Foundation Festival in July 1924, he received the Prussian ribbon back. At the same time he was appointed as a full member of the AH Advisory Board; he belonged to him until the 1960s.

Although he had resumed his law studies in November 1924, on March 1, 1925, at the age of 24, he became the managing counsel of the Association of Silesian Metal Industry and the Employers' Association in Wroclaw and the surrounding area , the so-called industrial cartel. In January 1927 he passed the trainee exam. With a doctoral thesis with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy , he became a Dr. iur. utr. PhD. In order to enable him to continue his association work, he was exceptionally allowed to go through all traineeships in Wroclaw. With the royalties on his extended doctoral thesis, which was self-published in 1928, he was able to afford a cure in Istria.

In order to become independent from the Chamber of Crafts , he founded the Werkschulvereinigung Breslauer Metallindustrielle with its own school building and teaching staff. From 1930 to 1939 he was the managing director of the Association of the Leather and Slipper Industry in Silesia . In 1932 he was elected to the Silesian Provincial Synod of the Evangelical Church. Immediately after Potsdam Day , all employers' associations (including Fürer's industrial cartel) were dissolved. Meinecke was the liquidator in Breslau. Fürer and Schimmelpfennig established themselves as lawyers in the association building. Fürer's law firm “opened like a yeast cake”.

On May 31, 1933, Fürer represented his corps at the Kösener Congress. He was able to successfully fend off efforts to transfer the Kösener Corps to the National Socialist German Student Union. After many leaves of absence, he passed the assessor examination three months later . His application for membership in the National Socialist German Workers' Party made him a candidate . After the Röhm putsch , he was removed from the list of candidates. He then reported as a reserve officer candidate for the Reichswehr and practiced in a replacement company of the 51st Infantry Regiment. From 1934 until the Battle of Breslau , he was in charge of the management of specialist groups and business cartels in the German felt industry .

Second World War

As a lieutenant, behind Aachen and in Eupen-Malmedy , he experienced the deployment of the German armies for the western campaign . Later he was first lieutenant and company commander on the French Atlantic coast. The High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW) sent him to southern Russia in August 1941 as a special representative. In January 1942 as Oberleutnant d. R. retired from the army , he was henceforth a directorate of the Armaments Inspectorate VIII. From June to November 1942 he stayed in the Ukraine , the Crimea , the Caucasus and in the salt steppe between Kuma , Terek , Manych and Astrakhan .

As chief staff officer, he became a consultant in the OKW. From September 1943 he was the leader of the special command VA Italy. Shortly after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested by the SS and beaten to death, but released. A little later he suffered a traffic accident near Innsbruck. With serious injuries he was taken to various hospitals . East of the demarcation line in the Hubertusburg reserve hospital, through skillful negotiation, he managed to transfer 2,000 wounded from the Red Army to the United States Army . At the end of June 1945 he was finally released from an American military hospital in Bad Hersfeld to live with his parents in Marburg .

New beginning

Fürer welcomed the zero hour as an opportunity and obligation to build a free, democratic community. In September 1945 he found his first post-war job in the management of a textile factory in his native Volkmarshausen . In December 1945 he founded a flourishing company for shoes and building materials . He traded in felt soles, iron rails and roof tiles. Like thirteen years before, he was admitted to the bar in July 1947 at the District, Regional and Higher Regional Court of Kassel . In the management of the Kassel Chamber of Commerce and Industry since August 1, 1947, he was appointed Managing Director on November 3, 1947. He did not take advantage of his admission as a notary in Kassel (1948). He devoted himself to Hesse's structural policy and new industrialization, the development of zones and federal development areas . From 1956 to 1959 he took part in the state development program for North Hesse . He initiated the establishment of a chair for work physiology at the Philipps University of Marburg . He retired on August 31, 1965.

VAC

Since 1951 chairman of the AHSC Kassel, he gave the speech at the Kösener Festkommers 1953 - the last one at the Wachenburg . 1955–1957 and 1968–1977 he represented the greater district of North Hesse-South Westphalia in the general committee of the VAC . In 1958 he followed Werner Ranz as chairman of the VAC board in Kassel. He resigned in 1961 for health reasons. At the 1972 Kösener Congress, he ensured that multi- band men of the four retired corps (Bremensia, Rhenania Strasbourg, Suevia Tübingen, Vandalia Heidelberg) were allowed to continue to wear the band in question ; this contributed significantly to pacification in the corps and in the Kösener Seniors Convent Association . In 1973/75, under Fürer's chairmanship, new statutes for the entire committee were drawn up and implemented. It consolidated the (old) decentralization at the expense of the VAC board. Similarly, he contributed to the modernization of his Corps Borussia Breslau zu Cologne and Aachen in the 1970s, above all to strengthen the youth in relation to old age.

Honorary positions

Incomplete list

  • Hessian State Planning Advisory Board
  • Working group for reunification issues
  • Legal Committee of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • German-Spanish Commission for Vocational Training
  • Board of Directors of the European Institute for Vocational Training
  • State School Advisory Board Hesse
  • University Advisory Board of the Philipps University of Marburg
  • Administrative Advisory Board of the Marburg University Association
  • Board of Trustees of the Werkkunstschule Kassel
  • Managing director of the Staatstheater Kassel funding company
  • Board member of the association for the engineering school for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering in Kassel
  • Co-founder and honorary member of the Kassel Legal Society
  • Board of Trustees and Board of Directors of the Scholarship Foundation of the Hessian Chambers of Industry and Commerce
  • Synod of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck

Honors

Works

  • North Hesse. Kurhessen-Waldeck-Fulda , in: Monographs of German Economic Areas . Verlag Gerhard Stalling 1956, 1965.
  • The Federal Republic of Germany - the world's economic partner . Stalling 1969.

literature

  • Deutsche Corpszeitung (1965), p. 233.
  • Klaus Gerstein: In memoriam Dr. Dr. Kurt Fürer Borussiae Breslau . Deutsche Corpszeitung, August 1989, p. 21 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 17/773
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Heinrich Bonn Berg : Kurt Fürer I . Corps newspaper of Borussia Breslau (1989).
  3. ↑ Economics dissertation: sliding wages according to business cycle and cost of living components .
  4. ↑ Legal dissertation: Dismissal restrictions in German and foreign employment contract law .
  5. ^ The Silesian Provincial Synod was dissolved by the National Socialists in 1934.
  6. ↑ Werner Ranz (corpsarchive.de)
predecessor Office successor
Werner Ranz VAC Chairman
1958 		Friedrich Krommes
personal data
SURNAME Forer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehringen , Hessen-Nassau
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1988
Place of death kassel