Fritz Neumayer

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Fritz Neumayer
German Federal Minister of Justice
In office
1953–1956
Preceded byThomas Dehler
Succeeded byHans-Joachim von Merkatz
Personal details
Born(1884-07-29)29 July 1884
Freie Volkspartei (FVP)
Alma materUniversity of Würzburg
ProfessionLawyer, politician

Fritz Neumayer (29 July 1884 – 12 April 1973) was a German politician. He was

Federal Minister of Building from 1952 to 1953, and Federal Minister of Justice
from 1953 to 1956.

Early life

Neumayer was born at Kaiserslautern, Germany. Both his father and his grandfather were lawyers and liberal members of parliament. Neumayer studied law at Würzburg, Berlin, Leipzig and Strasbourg.[1] After his graduation in 1911, he practiced law in his native city of Kaiserslautern until 1945, except for the time of military service.[2]

Political career

After

Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, Neumayer was elected to the federal parliament,[2] where his primary concern was ensuring the independence of judges from the state.[1]

After the death of the liberal minister for building,

Federal Minister of Justice, and worked primarily on reforming the criminal law.[1] He furthered judicial gender equality with a law of early 1954, though "according to the natural order"[nb 1] granting a husband the right to issue binding decisions for his spouse if the wellbeing of the family was not endangered.[3]

Neumayer also furthered an extension to the amnesty of 1949, resulting in the amnesty law of 17 July 1954.[4][5] In Neumayer's words, the law was to "rule off crimes committed directly or collaterally in the context of the conditions of a chaotic time period".[nb 2] Amnestied were people convicted of crimes up to manslaughter, but not murder, committed between 1 October 1944 and 31 July 1945 in the assumption of a legitimacy of their action, especially by following orders,[6] or out of an emergency. The law also provided for the clearance of several such crimes in the official registries.[7][8]

In 1956, Neumayer together with all other liberal federal ministers left the FDP to join the newly founded

Freie Volkspartei (FVP). In the same year, West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer dismissed him from his office, giving his high age as the reason.[1]

Later life

Neumayer, who was married with four children, spent the later part of his life in Munich. He was Honorary Chairman of the supervisory board of the Pfaff AG.[1] He died on April 12, 1973, in Munich,[2] and was buried in Kaiserslautern.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ "...nach der natürlichen Ordnung". Fritz Neumayer as cited in Bänsch (1985), p.427
  2. ^ "...einen Schlußstrich unter die Straftaten ziehen, die in unmittelbarem und mittelbarem Zusammenhang mit den Verhältnissen einer chaotischen Zeit begangen worden sind." Fritz Neumayer, as cited in Schröm (2002), p.86 and Frei (1996), p.102

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Schwarzmüller, Theo. "Fritz Neumayer". bv-pfalz.de (in German). Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
  2. ^ a b c Dittberner (2005), p. 389
  3. ^ Bänsch (1985), p.427
  4. ^ Schröm (2002), p.86
  5. ^ Frei (1996), pp.102-103
  6. ^ Freudiger (2002), p.22
  7. ^ Freudiger (2002), p.23
  8. ^ Frei (1996), p.126

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