Fritz Hellwig
| Fritz Hellwig | |
|---|---|
| European Commissioner for Research, Technology and Information Distribution | |
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In office 2 July 1967 – 30 June 1970 |
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| President | Jean Rey |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by |
Ralf Dahrendorf (Research, Science and Education) Altiero Spinelli (Industry and Technology) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 August 1912 Saarbrücken, Prussia (now Germany) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater |
University of Marburg University of Vienna University of Berlin |
Fritz Hellwig (born 3 August 1912) is a former German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken and turned 100 in August 2012.
Hellwig was born in the area known today as the Saarland province, known at that time as the Rhine Province of Prussia. After finishing school in 1930 in Saarbrücken he studied philosophy, national economy, political sciences and history in Marburg, Vienna and Humboldt University of Berlin. He received a doctorate in 1933 in Berlin with the work the fight for the Saar 1860 – 1870 and in 1936 received a Habilitation with a work on the Saarland Industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg. From 1933 to 1939 he worked in the Saarbrücken Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From 1937 he was also a lecturer at the Saarbrücken teacher training university. In 1939/1940 Hellwig was managing director of the iron production organisation in Düsseldorf and until 1943 of the iron and steel producing industry in the southwest district. He was called up to serve in the armed forces in 1943 and served until 1947.
After his dismissal from the army, Hellwig became an economic adviser in Duesseldorf and Duisburg. From 1951 to 1959 he was acting director of the German industrial institute in Cologne and also chairman of the “German Saarbundes”. His analysis had crucial influence on the "Saarpolitik" of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
At first Hellwig had belonged to the Centre Party but in 1947 he joined the CDU and immediately became a member of the political-economic committee for the Rhineland. Later he was selected for the federal committee for economic policy and the federal promotion of the CDU. Hellwig was among the authors of the 1949 CDU publication Düsseldorfer Leitsätze (the Düsseldorf guiding principles).
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