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Hubert Ney (12 October 1892 – 3 February 1984) was a German

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( Zentrum, CVP, CDU) and

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(1956). He was born and died in Saarlouis. He was related to

Michel Ney Michel Ney, 1st Duke of Elchingen, 1st Prince of the Moskva (; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was one o ...

Life and career

Hubert Ney started studying law at the Universities of

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and

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which was interrupted by his service in the First World War. During his service in the German expeditionary force in 1918, he lost his right arm. After the war he resumed his studies in Heidelberg again and became active in the Catholic student association K.St.V Palatia Heidelberg. He received his doctorate and settled in his hometown of Saarlouis as a lawyer. In 1920 he joined the Centre Party. In the

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held on January 13, 1935, he spoke in favor of reincorporation of the Saarland into the

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. In 1946 he founded the Christian People's Party of the Saar (CVP) together with Johannes Hoffmann and others. Unlike Hoffmann, Ney supported a connection of Saarland to Germany. In 1952 he became chairman of the CDU Saar, which was, however, banned at the time. In the

on 23 October 1955, like the other pro-German politicians he advocated a rejection of the European

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. After the Saar Statute was rejected by a large majority (67.7%), on the night of election day Johannes Hoffmann resigned as prime minister and

Heinrich Welsch Heinrich Welsch (born 13 October 1888 in Saarlouis – died 23 November 1976 in Saarbrücken) was a politician but not a member of a political party. He was Minister President of Saarland in 1955 and 1956. Life and career up to World War II F ...

became interim minister-president, on December 18, 1955 state elections were held, from which the CDU emerged as the strongest party. Accordingly Hubert Ney was elected prime minister of Saarland on January 10, 1956 by the Saarland parliament, with a Grand Coalition government consisting of CDU, SPD and DPS. On 1 January 1957, the Saarland became a state of the

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in accordance with Article 23 of the Basic Law. Ney was therefore Prime Minister of both the autonomous Saarland, as well as the new state. He stepped down on 4 June 1957 because of disputes within the coalition and with the federal party of the CDU, with Egon Reinert his successor. In 1959 Ney resigned from the CDU and founded the Christian-national community, but failed in the regional elections in 1960. 1964 Hermann Schwann tried in vain to win him over to the left-national-neutralist Action Commonwealth of Independent Germans of August Haußleiter. 1969 Ney called for a vote for the NPD.

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1892 births 1984 deaths Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians Centre Party (Germany) politicians Ministers-President of Saarland Saar politicians {{Germany-CDU-politician-stub