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Fritz Schäffer

German politician (1888–1967)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fritz Schäffer 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 to 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Berlin. In 1945 he became the first Minister President of Bavaria 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.

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“Fritz Schäffer” enters the record as german politician (1888–1967). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fritz, Schäffer and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 1933, 1945, 1949—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fritz, Schäffer and German.
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Why this record matters

“Fritz Schäffer” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fritz, Schäffer and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1931, 1933, 1945 and 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fritz Schäffer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.