Otto Fricke (politician, 1902)

Otto Fricke (right) together with Konrad Adenauer at the 9th CDU federal party conference in Karlsruhe in 1960

Otto Fricke on an election poster for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1959

Otto Fricke (born March 10, 1902 in Lengde ; † September 3, 1972 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German lawyer , entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Otto Fricke was born on March 10, 1902 as the son of a farmer in Lengde. After graduating from the Humanities College in Goslar , he took a degree in law and political science at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich in which he in 1924 with the first state examination in 1925 and awarded the degree of Dr. jur. finished. He then worked as an employee in the building materials industry. In 1934 he became a co-owner of a building materials wholesaler in Goslar as an independent wholesaler. In the 1930s he was chairman of regional and national associations of the German building materials wholesalers. In 1938/39 he was a supporting member of the SS .

From 1953 to 1963, Fricke was chairman of the Federal Association of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade . From 1963 to 1971 he was President of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He died of heart failure on September 3, 1972 in Bad Harzburg.

politics

After the Second World War , Fricke was one of the founders of the CDU in Lower Saxony . From 1952 to 1968 he was chairman of the CDU regional association in Braunschweig and from 1960 to 1968 presiding regional chairman of the CDU Lower Saxony. From 1947 to 1951 and again from 1955 to 1970 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . The state parliament elected him a member of the third federal assembly , which in 1959 elected Heinrich Lübke as federal president .

On June 9, 1948, Fricke was appointed Minister of Economics and Transport to the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf . With the withdrawal of the CDU ministers, he left the state government on August 23, 1950 and was replaced as economics minister by the SPD politician Alfred Kubel .

See also

• Cabinet head III

literature

• Otto Fricke , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/1973 of December 25, 1972, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony. (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed paper 16/4667, p. 2.
2. ↑ Fricke, Otto, Dr. 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. 329 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).