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Fritz Schäffer
Fritz Schäffer (12 May 1888 in Munich – 29 March 1967 in Berchtesgaden) was a German politician of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and the Christian Social Union (CSU). He was the Bavarian Minister of Finance from 1931 until 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Berlin. In 1945 he became the first Bavarian Minister-President to hold office after the end of the Second World War. From 1949 to 1957 he was the West German federal Minister of Finance, and from 1957
to 1961 federal Minister of Justice.
Biography.
Fritz Schäffer was born in 1888 as the son of Gottfried Schäffer and Amalia Mayr. He went to school in Ingolstadt, Munich and Neuburg an der Donau, afterwards studying law in Munich. He joined as a volunteer the Bavarian "Infanterie-Leib-Regiment" in 1915. After service in Serbia and Tyrol, he was wounded at Verdun in May 1916 and released from army service.
Schäffer started working for the Bavarian state government in 1917. He married Else