Wilhelm Fay

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Mayor Wilhelm Fay (left), next to Alfred Dregger , Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Hans-Jürgen Moog , in 1968 in Frankfurt am Main

Wilhelm Fay (born July 1, 1911 in Sossenheim ; † February 7, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

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Wilhelm and Henriette Fay in the Frankfurt Zoo Society House

Wilhelm Fay was born on July 1, 1911 as the son of the Frankfurt haberdashery Wilhelm Fay and his wife Wilhelmine in Sossenheim. His father founded the Sossenheim workers' association in 1908 and works at the center . The family left Sossenheim in 1912 and moved to Frankfurt's Nordend Spohrstrasse 13. The father ran the Schweitzer & Fay haberdashery at Hirschgraben 7 until 1933. The business was closed in 1933 due to the political turmoil. Wilhelm Fay got involved early on in the Catholic assault group of the Catholic Bernardus parish around Pastor Alois Eckert, who became his spiritual foster father . He attended the Catholic Selektenschule up to sixth grade and switched to the Kaiser Wilhelms-Gymnasium , where he graduated from high school in 1930. Fay then studied law in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. During his studies he joined the Windthorstbund at the University of Frankfurt and became a member of the center. He passed the first state examination in law in 1934, and after successfully completing his legal clerkship, Fay, contrary to expectations, did not pass the second state examination. Due to his strong political commitment as a center politician and speaker for the Windthorstbund, Fay was considered politically unreliable by the auditors. He was ordered to repeat the entire legal traineeship . On the advice of pastor Alois Eckert, who had just returned from Nazi imprisonment, whose Catholic assault group had been arrested and tortured by the Nazis in 1937, Fay joined the NSDAP in 1937 to complete his legal training. Also in 1937, he graduated as Dr. jur. and only finished his training in 1939 with the second state examination in law. He then worked as an authorized representative at Frankfurter Bank . It was in 1942 as a lawyer authorized and appointed Judge 1945th During the entire period of National Socialism he was committed to political Catholicism and supported befriended Jewish families. Fay was drafted into the Navy in 1941 and was stationed on the island of Walcheren in the Netherlands and on the island of Aegina in Greece . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British and was interned on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn . After returning from captivity, he returned to Frankfurt, where he was denazified by the ruling chamber . The Americans commissioned him to license the new free press . He was responsible for licensing the Frankfurter Generalanzeiger , the Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .

Political party

Wilhelm Fay to the Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
Wilhelm Fay during his speech during the federal election campaign

During the time of the Weimar Republic , Fay was a member of the Windthorstbund and the center. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP. He had a candidate in the storm department . In 1945 he belonged to the founding circle of the Hessian CDU and was district chairman of the CDU Frankfurt from 1952 to 1961 and 1972/73. From 1952 to 1967 he was state chairman of the CDU Hessen . Then he was honorary chairman of the Hessian Christian Democrats.

MP

Fay belonged to the Hessian state parliament from November 5, 1953, when he replaced the resigned MP Elisabeth Pitz , until 1970. From 1962 to 1970 he was chairman of the main parliamentary committee and from 1962 to 1968 deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

Public offices

Fay was a member of the municipal authorities of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1948 until his death and held this position full-time from 1956 to 1966. From 1966 to 1972 he was mayor and head of the economic development department of the city of Frankfurt. In 1972 the SPD refused to re-elect Fay, which led to the break of the coalition between the SPD and CDU.

Awards

Others

He was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Moeno-Franconia Frankfurt am Main (CV).

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 245–246 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 126.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Fay  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  2. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Hessischer Landtag , Wiesbaden 2013, p. 34. ( Online )
  3. ^ "In the service of democracy - the winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 1965 - 2011", Hessische Landesregierung, 2011, page 110
  4. ^ "In the service of democracy - the winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 1965-2011", Hessische Landesregierung, 2011, p. 110.
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  6. ^ "In the service of democracy - the winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 1965 - 2011", Hessische Landesregierung, 2011, page 109 f.
  7. ^ "In the service of democracy - the winners of the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal 1965 - 2011", Hessische Landesregierung, 2011, page 109 f.
personal data
SURNAME Fay, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Sossenheim
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1980
Place of death Frankfurt am Main