Oscar Funcke

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Oscar Funcke (born June 17, 1885 in Hagen ; † July 6, 1965 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

Oscar Funcke was born in Hagen as the son of the screw manufacturer Wilhelm Funcke III. born. From 1910 to 1947, he and his brother Wilhelm Funcke IV. Ran their parents' company, Funcke & Hueck , which had been family-owned from 1842 to 1970.

Funcke was involved in the Evangelical Church and was z. B. from 1931 until his death honorary board member of the Evangelical Foundation Volmarstein in Wetter (Ruhr) . Furthermore, Oscar Funcke was a member of the Corps Palaeo-Teutonia Aachen , which he joined in 1906, and a member of the Düsseldorf Industry Club until his death .

His daughter was the politician Liselotte Funcke .

The "Oscar Funcke House" of the Evangelical Foundation Volmarstein, built in 1967, is named after Oscar Funcke. It is a dormitory for handicapped children and young people.

Political party

Oscar Funcke was a member of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic . After the war he tried to revive it, but then joined the FDP in 1946. In June 1947 he was appointed chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the FDP in the British Zone, an office he held until the Federal Party was founded in 1948.

MP

Before 1933, Funcke was a member of the city council of his hometown Hagen . Funcke was also a member of the first city council appointed after the war.

Funcke moved into the German Bundestag on September 14, 1951 when he succeeded Hermann Höpker-Aschoff as the first President of the Federal Constitutional Court . From February 26, 1953 he was deputy chairman of the advisory board for trade policy agreements of the Bundestag. He was a member of parliament until the end of the first legislative term . In 1949 and 1954 he was a member of the first two federal assemblies that each elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President .

The grave of Oscar Funcke and his wife Bertha in the Buschey cemetery in Hagen.

Documents relating to his work for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Fonts

Oscar Funcke wrote a story of the Funcke & Hueck company, which also contains autobiographical passages and is located in the Westphalian Economic Archives in Dortmund.

  • Oscar Funcke: The Struggle in the Iron Industry . Westfälische Verlagsanst. Thiebes, Hagen 1934, OCLC 833782094 .
  • Oscar Funcke: My political will . Part 1. Westfäl. Verl.-Anst., Hagen 1951, OCLC 312566815 .
  • Oscar Funcke: My political will . Part 2: 1952/53. Westphalian Verl.-Anst., Hagen 1953, OCLC 312255504 .

literature

  • Steffi Cornelius: Screw production in Westphalia. The example of Funcke & Hueck in Hagen. In: screws and threads. Sigmaringen 1992, pp. 95-108.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 237.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. P. 284.
  2. ↑ Funcke, Oscar . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 342 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Mentioned in the information on the inventory F 160 - Funcke & Hueck in the Westphalian Economic Archives in Dortmund.
personal data
SURNAME Funcke, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1965
Place of death Hagen