Wilhelm Fonk

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Wilhelm Fonk

Wilhelm Fonk (born January 25, 1896 in Barmen , † March 13, 1974 in Erlangen ) was a German politician ( center ).

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Empire and Weimar Republic (1896 to 1933)

Fonk attended high school . After graduating from high school, which he took in 1914, he took part in World War I from September 1, 1914 , in which he fought on the Eastern and Western Fronts as a member of Infantry Regiment 39 and Reserve Infantry Regiment 218 . In 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve, and during the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Wound Badge .

During the war, Fonk was enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as a student of economics and law. After the war he studied these subjects in Bonn (1918 to 1919), Münster (1919) and Cologne (1919 to 1920). In November 1920 he received his doctorate in Cologne. rer. pole. He then worked for two years as an assistant in the Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Cotton Spinners in Mönchengladbach . In 1922 he married. In July of the same year Fonk became the syndic of the trade and industrial advisory councils of the Center Party in Berlin. In June 1932 he came to the board of the same body.

In the mid-1920s he began to be more politically active. As a member of the Catholic Center Party, he held various offices.

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 Fonk was a candidate of the Center for the constituency 7 (Breslau) in the Reichstag voted, of which he was subsequently until November 1933rd In the meantime, his mandate has been confirmed twice, in the Reichstag elections of November 1932 and in the elections of March 1933. The most important parliamentary event in which Fonk participated during his time as a member of parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which also included his Vote was decided.

Period of National Socialism and the Post-War Period (1933 to 1974)

In the spring of 1933 Fonk was appointed to the so-called "Working Committee in the Reich Chancellery". This body, which Hitler had formed in return for the Center Party's approval of the Enabling Act , was intended to give leading center politicians the opportunity to gain insight into current legislative proposals in order to be able to report any concerns or criticisms at an early stage. The working committee, which besides Fonk also included three other center politicians - Ludwig Kaas , Adam Stegerwald and August Wegmann - met three times with Adolf Hitler in March / April 1933 : on March 31, 1933, on April 2 ( in the presence of Wilhelm Frick and Hans Heinrich Lammers ) and most recently on April 7th. After the regime had further consolidated and a cooperative attitude of the center became less important, the committee was dissolved again.

In 1934 Fonk became a leading employee at the Schocken Group. There he initially took on the administration department and represented the company in dealings with the authorities.

From around 1941 Fonk took part in World War II . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was later released early because he had refused promotion to officer during the war. After his return home, Fonk again took on leading positions at Merkur AG . He later rose to the position of chairman of the board of Merkur AG and general director of Merkur Horten & Co. in Nuremberg.

In 1960 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested on April 30, 1960 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Fonk was a member of the Catholic student union Suevia-Cologne in the KV .

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  • Center and Industry , Berlin 1924.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Düwell / Wolfgang Köllmann: Rheinlandwestfalen im Industriezeitalter , 1983, p. 82. At the same point they describe Fonk as "capable".
  2. ↑ Georg May: Ludwig Kaas , p. 372.
  3. ^ Herbert Hömig: Brüning. Between Weimar and Bonn Republic , 2005, p. 431.
  4. ↑ Konrad Fuchs, 1990, p.
  5. ^ The time of February 2, 1956.
  6. ^ Academic monthly sheets 1933, p. 144
personal data
SURNAME Fonk, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1974
Place of death gain