Egon Klepsch

Egon Klepsch, 1981

CDU candidate poster for the 1965 federal election

Egon Alfred Klepsch (born January 30, 1930 in Bodenbach , Czechoslovakia , † September 18, 2010 in Koblenz ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

In 1945 Klepsch was interned as a Sudeten German for six months in a Czechoslovak forced labor camp and then expelled from his homeland together with his parents . In 1949 he passed his Abitur in Magdeburg and began studying history and geography in Rostock . Klepsch became part of a resistance group within the FDJ . In 1950 he fled to West Berlin to avoid arrest by the State Security . He finished his studies in Marburg in 1954 with his doctorate on Gustav Stresemann's policy on Russia . From 1959 to 1965 he was a lecturer in international politics in the scientific research and teaching staff of the Bundeswehr .

From 1963 to 1969 Klepsch was federal chairman of the Junge Union . In 1965 he was briefly employed as an election campaign organizer for Ludwig Erhard in the Federal Chancellery . In the same year he became a member of the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until 1980. Klepsch has been involved on a European level since 1964. In the same year he became President of the International Union of Young Christian Democrats in Europe and was a member of the Presidium of the EUCD (until 1970). From 1973 he was a member of the Bundestag and the European Parliament . From May 5, 1977 to January 20, 1982 and from 1984 to January 14, 1992 Klepsch was chairman of the EPP group. The fact that he, as group chairman, together with his PES colleague Rudi Arndt, gave a structure to the “Parliament, which was initially prone to chaos”, is credited to him as a great merit. After trying unsuccessfully for the office of President of Parliament in 1982 and becoming Vice-President, Klepsch was elected to this office for two years in 1992 with the votes of the EPP Group and the Social Democrats . In 1994 he left the European Parliament voluntarily and became a consultant for Deutsche Vermögensberatung .

From 1989 to 1997 Egon Klepsch was President of the Europa-Union Deutschland . Since 1997 he has been its honorary president.

In his place of residence Koblenz- Güls he was honored with a street named after him, the Egon-Klepsch-Weg. In 1992 he was awarded the Robert Schuman Medal .

literature

• 50 years of history of the EPP Group 1953–2003. Issued by the EPP Group, page 98

Web links

• Literature by and about Egon Klepsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Egon Klepsch in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DIED. Egon Klepsch . In: Der Spiegel No. 39/2010, September 27, 2010, page 194. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
2. ↑ nbu .: Egon Alfred Klepsch 80. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 30 January 2010, p. 5