Eduard Adorno
Eduard Adorno (born October 31, 1920 in Munich , † December 28, 2000 in Bad Wörishofen ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1961 to 1972 he was a member of the German Bundestag , from 1967 to 1969 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense and from 1972 to 1980 Minister of Federal Affairs in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg and authorized representative of the State of Württemberg to the federal government .
Family and education
Eduard Adorno's father was the doctor Ludwig Adorno. After graduating from high school in Mindelheim in 1940 , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a mountain hunter . During the Second World War he fought as a non-commissioned officer ( reserve officer candidate ) of an artillery unit on the western and eastern fronts and was seriously wounded in Normandy in 1944 . He became a prisoner of war, from which he was able to escape before the end of the war. From 1946 he studied agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University and graduated in 1950 with a degree in agriculture . There he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Carolingia in the CV . In 1951 he took over the management of his parents' fruit and hop farm in Kaltenberg near Tettnang . From 1959 to 1963 he was chairman of the Association of German Hop Growers and then until 1967 Vice President of the European Hop Growing Office in Strasbourg. In addition, from 1961 to 1967 he was also President of the Committee of Hop Growers of the Common Market and from 1962 Chairman of the Lake Constance Fruit Working Group .
After he left politics in 1980, Adorno became a winery owner in California.
Adorno received the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1975 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star in 1980. In 1984 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit. He was also an honorary senator of the University of Hohenheim. Adorno was the nephew of the center politician Oscar Adorno (1872-1937), who had belonged to the Württemberg state parliament.
Political party
In 1956 Eduard Adorno became chairman of the CDU regional association in South Württemberg-Hohenzollern, which was still independent at the time . He held the office for 21 years until 1977, from 1971 as CDU district chairman. From 1970 to 1977 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg .
MP
In 1961 he became a member of the constituency of Wangen / Tettnang / Ravensburg . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1961 until his resignation on August 21, 1972 . He has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Ravensburg.
From November 1965 to April 19, 1967, Adorno was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .
Public offices
On April 19, 1967, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger . Here he headed the commission named after him, whose task it was to work out proposals for the implementation of military justice. After the 1969 federal election , he left office on October 22, 1969.
In 1972 Adorno, at that time deputy CDU state chairman in Baden-Württemberg, was appointed Minister for Federal Affairs and authorized representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg at the federal government by the then Prime Minister Hans Filbinger . Adorno held this office for eight years. In this function he was a member of the Federal Council, a member of the Mediation Committee and, in 1979, the doyen of the authorized representatives. In 1980 he left politics.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 5-6.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Adorno in the catalog of the German National Library
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North Württemberg : Josef Andre (1946–1948) | Wilhelm Simpfendörfer (1948–1958) | Klaus Scheufelen (1958–1971)
North Baden : Fridolin Heurich (1945–1951) | Franz Gurk (1951–1968) | Otto Dullenkopf (1968–1970) | Gerhard Zeitel (1970–1971)
South Baden : Leo Wohleb (1946–1947) | Anton Dichtel (1948–1966) | Hans Filbinger (1966–1971)
Württemberg-Hohenzollern : Franz Weiß (1946–1948) | Gebhard Müller (1948–1955) | Eduard Adorno (1956–1971)
Baden-Württemberg : Hans Filbinger (1971–1979) | Lothar Späth (1979–1991) | Erwin Teufel (1991–2005) | Günther Oettinger (2005–2009) | Stefan Mappus (2009–2011) | Thomas Strobl (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adorno, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2000 |
| Place of death | Bad Woerishofen |