Friedrich Zimmermann
Zimmermann in 1990
In office 21 April 1989 – 18 January 1991Chancellor Helmut Kohl Preceded by Jürgen Warnke Succeeded by Günther Krause In office 4 October 1982 – 21 April 1989Chancellor Helmut Kohl Preceded by Jürgen Schmude Succeeded by Wolfgang Schäuble In office 15 November 1976 – 4 October 1982Leader Helmut Kohl Preceded by Richard Stücklen Succeeded by Theo Waigel
Born (1925-07-18 ) 18 July 1925Munich , Germany Died 16 September 2012(2012-09-16) (aged 87) Filzmoos , Austria Political party Christian Social Union
Friedrich Zimmermann (18 July 1925 – 16 September 2012) was a German politician and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 1982 to 1989, he was the federal minister of interior.[1] From 1989 to 1991 he held the position of federal minister for transport.[2]
Biography [ ]
Zimmermann was born on 18 July 1925.[3] He served in the Second World War between 1943 and 1945 and held a lieutenant rank. In 1946, he studied law and economics in Munich , where he received a PhD . From 1951 until 1954, he was a civil servant in Bavaria and became a lawyer in 1963.
In 1943, Zimmermann became a member of the NSDAP .[4] From 1948, he was a member of the CSU . In 1955, he was managing director of the CSU and then from 1956 to 1963 held the position of General Secretary.
As part of the CSU's hard-fought struggle against the Bayernpartei for political supremacy in Bavaria, Zimmermann was convicted in 1960 of perjury in connection with the Bavarian casino affair , but was finally acquitted in 1961 after a medical report that said: During the time of the oath, he had a reduced mental performance due to hypoglycaemia . In his overall assessment, however, the court explicitly stated: "there can be no talk of that the accused's innocence has been proven." According to the German Spiegel -magazine Zimmermann remarked about the expert himself: "He was named by my defense, I got it for the first time seen in the courtroom." The affair earned him the nickname "Old Schwurhand" (an allusion to a Karl May character, Old Surehand , with "Schwur" meaning oath), which haunted him throughout his life. Because of the affair, he was – in reference to Ludwig Anzengruber's play of the same name – also called "The perjury-farmer", but that was banned by a court.
From 1963 to 1967, he was treasurer of the CSU for Bavaria and from 1979 to 1989, he was vice chairman of the CSU. He was a member of the German parliament from 1957 to 1990.
From October 1982 until 1989, Zimmermann served as minister of interior in the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl .[5] As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed minister of transport on 21 April 1989, replacing Jürgen Warnke in the post.[6] After the parliamentary elections in 1990, he resigned from the federal government on 18 January 1991.
Personal life and death [ ]
Zimmermann was a Catholic and had two children. He was in his third marriage. He died on 16 September 2012.[3]
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