Fritz Neumayer
| Fritz Neumayer | |
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| German Federal Minister of Justice | |
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In office 1953–1956 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Dehler |
| Succeeded by | Hans-Joachim von Merkatz |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 July 1884 Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Died | 12 April 1973 (aged 88) Munich, Germany |
| Resting place | Kaiserslautern |
| Nationality |
 Germany
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| Political party | Free Democratic Party (FDP), Freie Volkspartei (FVP) |
| Alma mater | University of Wurzburg |
| Profession | Lawyer, 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.
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. After his graduation in 1911, he practiced law in his native city of Kaiserslautern until 1945, except for the time of military service.
After World War II, Neumayer joined the newly founded liberal party of the western occupation zones, the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Also in 1945, he became president of the state court in Kaiserslautern. He was elected to the advisory state board of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946, and to the respective state parliament in 1947. When Rhineland-Palatinate became a constituent state of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, Neumayer was elected to the federal parliament, where his primary concern was ensuring the independence of judges from the state.
After the death of the liberal minister for building, Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth, in 1952, Neumayer led the ministry until the 1953 West German federal election. After the election, he became Federal Minister of Justice, and worked primarily on reforming the criminal law. He furthered judicial gender equality with a law of early 1954, though "according to the natural order" granting a husband the right to issue binding decisions for his spouse if the wellbeing of the family was not endangered.
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