Friedrich Zimmermann

Friedrich Zimmermann (18 July 1925 – 16 September 2012) was a German politician and a member of the CSU. From 1982 to 1989 he was the federal minister of interior. From 1989 to 1991 he held the position of federal minister for transport.

Friedrich Zimmermann was born on 18 July 1925. He served in the Second World War between 1943 and 1945 and held a lieutenant rank. In 1946 he studied law and economics in Munich where he received a PhD. From 1951 until 1954 Zimmermann was a civil servant in Bavaria and became a lawyer in 1963.

In 1943, Friedrich Zimmermann became a member of the NSDAP. From 1948 he was a member of the CSU. In 1955 he was managing director of the CSU and then from 1956 to 1963 held the position of General Secretary. From 1963 to 1967, he was treasurer of the CSU for Bavaria and from 1979 to 1989, he was vice chairman of the CSU. He was a member of the German parliament from 1957 to 1990.

From October 1982 until 1989, Zimmermann served as minister of interior in the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Zimmermann was appointed minister of transport on 21 April 1989, replacing Jürgen Warnke in the post. After the parliamentary elections in 1990, he resigned from the federal government on 18 January 1991.

Zimmermann was a Catholic and had two children. He was in his third marriage. He died on 16 September 2012.

• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1976)