Hermann Höcherl | |
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Federal Ministry of the Interior Germany |
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In office 14 November 1961 – 25 October 1965 |
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Chancellor |
Konrad Adenauer (1961–1963) Ludwig Erhard (1963–1965) |
Preceded by | Gerhard Schröder |
Succeeded by | Paul Lücke |
Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests Germany |
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In office 26 October 1965 – 21 October 1969 |
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Chancellor |
Ludwig Erhard (1965–1966) Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966–1969) |
Preceded by | Werner Schwarz |
Succeeded by | Josef Ertl |
Personal details | |
Born |
Brennberg, Bavaria German Empire |
31 March 1912
Died | 18 May 1989 Regensburg, West Germany |
(aged 77)
Nationality | German |
Political party |
Nazi Party (1931–1932, 1935–1945) Christian Social Union in Bavaria (1949–1989) |
Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Hermann Höcherl (31 March 1912 – 18 May 1989) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He served as Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1961 to 1965 and as Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests from 1965 to 1969
Höcherl was born in Brennberg near Regensburg, Bavaria but was raised by his grandfather near Roding. Having obtained his Abitur degree in 1931, he studied law at the Berlin Frederick William University, at the Aix-Marseille University, and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He passed the Second State Examination in 1938 and first served as a Gerichtsassessor, from 1940 as a public prosecutor in Regensburg.
He had joined the Nazi Party in 1931; after leaving it in 1932, he rejoined in 1935. In 1942 he volunteered for the Wehrmacht armed forces in the rank of Lieutenant, with his service being in Nazi occupied Poland, and later in combat in Greece, Finland and Soviet Russia
After the war, Höcherl from 1948 practised as a lawyer. In 1950 he was again appointed public prosecutor in Deggendorf and judge in Regensburg in 1951.