Oskar Farny

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Oskar Farny

Oskar Farny (born April 9, 1891 in Dürren ; † June 20, 1983 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German officer , manager in agriculture and politician . Last active as a company commander in the Reichswehr during the First World War , Farny took over the management of the family business Edelweißbrauerei Farny in 1919 and at the same time was chairman of the United Dürren cheese dairies until 1976 .

In addition, he was initially mainly active in local politics and briefly in the Württemberg state parliament ; From 1930 to June 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a representative of the Center Party , and from November 1933 until 1945 he was a non-party member of the National Socialist Reichstag . He spent the Second World War as a lieutenant colonel and reservist in Germany.

In 1953 Farny was elected to the German Bundestag for the CDU . One day later, under Prime Minister Gebhard Müller (later also Kurt Georg Kiesinger ), he became Minister for Federal Affairs in the State Ministry and thus worked until 1960 as representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg at the federal government .

Life

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Farny was born in 1891 as the second of eight siblings on the Dürren estate. His father was Hugo Farny . After graduation in Ravensburg he studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 1911 to 1913 Jura . During his studies he became a member of AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV .

Even before the First World War , he began a military career in Weingarten in the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm I." (6th Württembergisches) No. 124 . During the war he became a companion and close friend of the later Field Marshal Erwin Rommel . Farny was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. Most recently he was company commander and general staff candidate.

After his older brother Hugo Farny gave up his birthright in 1919 and became a pastor in Tannheim, among others, Oskar Farny became the heir of his parents' estate and owner of the edelweiss brewery Oskar Farny in Dürren near Waltershofen , which today belongs to the Kißlegg community. The brewery, which was founded in 1833, has been owned by the Kugel family, into which grandfather Oskar Farnys Eustach Farny married in 1856. Also in 1919 Farny took over the chairmanship of the United Käsereien Dürren, a cooperative from which today's Allgäuland-Käsereien GmbH developed; he was in charge until 1976.

During the Second World War he served as a battalion commander in the 290 Infantry Regiment. He was awarded the Iron Cross II class clasp. After a stay in a hospital, he was chief of staff at the commander for prisoners of war in Wehrkreis V in Stuttgart from 1941 to 1945. In 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the reserve.

In 1954 he was President of the Association of the German Dairy Industry . From 1958 to 1967 he was chairman of the Hohenheim University Association . In 1961 he became a member of the executive committee of the German Raiffeisen Association and later became president.

After Oskar Farny's death in 1983, the Edelweiss brewery was transferred to a foundation structure. Oskar Farny had been married to Elisabeth Farny since 1913; the marriage remained childless.

Political party

In the Weimar Republic , Farny was a member of the Center Party. After the Second World War , although he lived in Württemberg-Hohenzollern , he first joined the Bavarian CSU . Only after his election to the Bundestag in 1953 did he move to the CDU.

MP

From 1919 to 1972 Farny was a member of the municipal council of his home parish Waltershofen and, after its incorporation in 1972, councilor of the parish of Kißlegg.

Farny was elected to the Württemberg state parliament as early as 1920, although he only exercised his mandate until 1921. Farny was a member of the Reichstag from 1930 to June 1933, when he stepped down, and from November 1933 to 1945 . On March 24, 1933, he voted with the center faction for the Enabling Act , which secured the rule of the NSDAP. He was about the only future member of parliament, who - although not a Nazi -member - was elected on 12 November 1933 on the NSDAP Reichstag election proposal and remained in the era of National Socialism member of the Reichstag , in 1935 the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German honor agreed.

Farny was a member of the German Bundestag from the 1953 federal election until November 11, 1953. On October 7, 1953, one day after his election to the Bundestag, he was appointed Minister for Federal Affairs of the State of Baden-Württemberg , who was based in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg and headed the State's representation at the federal level . He held this office until June 23, 1960. After the resignation of Prime Minister Gebhard Müller , who had been elected President of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1958 , he favored him as his successor; the CDU, however, opted for Kurt Georg Kiesinger .

Honors

For his services to quality assurance research in the dairy industry, Farny was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim . In 1960 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and in 1975 the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg . In 1977 he received the Grand Cross of the New Year's Eve .

The state dairy teaching and research institute Dr.-Oskar-Farny-Institut and the Oskar-Farny-Weg in Wangen im Allgäu as well as the Oskar-Farny-Halle and Oskar-Farny-Straße in Waltershofen are named after Farny . The Edelweißbrauerei Farny also sells an Oskar Farny Premium Pils .

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 191 .
  • Frank Raberg: Oskar Farny - A proven democrat? . In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators helpers free riders. Volume 4. Nazi victims from Upper Swabia . Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2015, ISBN 978-3-945893-00-5 , pp. 114–127
  • Frank Raberg: Oskar Farny - the Allgäu Januskopf . In: Context: weekly newspaper , April 15, 2015
  • Robert Schmidtchen: Lobbyism as a purpose in life? From the Allgäu to the Greater German Reichstag to the Minister in Stuttgart and Bonn. Oskar Farny (1891-1983) , Steiner, Stuttgart 2029 (Historia altera, Volume 4), ISBN 978-3-515-12409-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 2 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ biography on leo-bw.de
personal data
SURNAME Farny, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, manager and politician (center, CDU), MdR, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Droughts
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1983
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu