Gerhard Frey (politician)
Gerhard Michael Frey (b. 18 February 1933 in Cham, Upper Palatinate, German Reich;[1] d. 19 February 2013 in Gräfelfing by Munich, Bavaria, Germany) was a German publisher, businessman and politician. His father, Adalbert Frey (1889–1944), was a German officer, who fought in both World War I and World War II.
Life
Political influence
Dr. rer. pol.[2] Frey was the chairman and main financial backer of the prominent patriotic party Deutsche Volksunion (DVU; English: German People's Union), which he founded in 1971. He resigned as chairman in January 2009.[3] The left-wing academic Cas Mudde described Frey as "One of the most influential people in the German post-war extreme right scene" and a "multi-millionaire media czar who owns and publishes several newspapers".[4] in 2010, he received the Ulrich von Hutten Medal (Ulrich-von-Hutten-Medaille).
Personal life
Dr. Gerhard Michael Frey, whose wealth had been estimated at 250 million euros, was married to the great love of his life Regine Frey, with whom he had four children.[5] Among them his daughter Michaela (b. 1965), who is a jurisprudent, and his son Gerhard Jr. (b. 1969), who is an attorney. Gerhard Frey's brother, Adalbert Jr. (d. 2006), had a doctorate in economics and managed the family's department stores.
References
- ↑ Cham is the capital of the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany.
- ↑ Doctorate (rerum politicarum) in economic and political sciences (German: Doktor der Staats- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften).
- ↑ ""Frey-Partei" ohne Frey / Der DVU-Vorsitzende ist abgetreten". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 January 2009, page 6.
- ↑ Cas Mudde (2002). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester University Press, 60. ISBN 978-0-7190-6446-3.
- ↑ "Ehepaar Frey spendete DVU mehr als eine Million Mark". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 March 1994, page 2.
