Siegfried Fröhlich (State Secretary)
Siegfried Fröhlich (born June 4, 1920 in Weißenhorn ; † June 19, 2012 ) was a German civil servant and from 1974 to 1985 a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (independent).
Siegfried Fröhlich, son of a family of innkeepers and beer brewers, graduated from high school in Munich and served as an officer from 1939 in World War II . At the end of the war he was a captain and became a prisoner of war. At the end of 1945 he began to study law, which he completed with the two state examinations in law and the doctorate to become a Dr. jur. completed. Siegfried Fröhlich began his civil service career in the Bavarian Ministry of Economics in early 1952 .
In October 1952 he joined the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Bonn as a specialist. There he worked in the areas of constitutional law, state security, federal border police, electoral law and political organization law. For several years he was the personal advisor to the Federal Minister of the Interior Hermann Höcherl and previously to the State Secretaries Hans Ritter von Lex and Josef Hölzl. In August 1964 he was promoted to head of the State Security Division, and in July 1968 to head of the Public Security Division.
In February 1974 he was appointed Secretary of State and remained in this position (even after the change of government in 1982) until the end of June 1985 before he retired.
In July 1973 he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, in 1976 the Large Federal Cross of Merit, in October 1980 the Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star and in 1985 the shoulder ribbon.
In January 1977 Fröhlich was honored with the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in the form of Grand Cross. He had supported a retired BKA officer in the investigation into the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur cases in Iceland . In this case, five men were convicted of murder who had been brought to confessions under torture-like conditions. In September 2018, 44 years after the alleged crime, all of the defendants were acquitted by the Icelandic Supreme Court .
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- Obituary in the FAZ from June 23, 2012, page 6
- Siegfried Fröhlich in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Database query on the Icelandic President's website , accessed on June 13, 2020.
- ^ All found innocent in Guðmundur and Geirfinns case, 44 years after the supposed crimes were committed. In: icelandmonitor.mbl.is. September 27, 2018, accessed June 11, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Happy, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German State Secretary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th June 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenhorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2012 |