Horst Vetter
Horst Vetter (born August 28, 1927 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and long-time parliamentary group leader of his party in the Berlin House of Representatives as well as a former Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection of Berlin.
Life and work
Horst Vetter finished school with a secondary school leaving certificate and completed a commercial apprenticeship in 1945/46. From 1947 he worked as a sales representative. In 1951 he became a co-owner of Vetter & Huffert , a wholesaler. In 1956 he founded the company Horst Vetter Wholesale , in 1966 the Berlin greeting card sales company , also a wholesaler, of which he had been the sole owner since 1970. In 1969 he added the retail company Horst Vetter paper and office supplies , which operated various shops in Berlin, to wholesale .
Cousin is married. He has three children. The youngest son, Andreas Vetter , was district chairman of the FDP in Berlin-Reinickendorf until 2016 and was a district councilor there until 2011.
politics
In 1961 Vetter joined the FDP and was chairman of the Berlin-Reinickendorf district association from 1965 to 1979 . From 1973 to 1975 he took over the post of deputy FDP state chairman in Berlin. In 1987/88 he was again a member of the state executive. He is currently a deputy assessor at the FDP regional arbitration court.
In 1971 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives on the Reinickendorfer district list and in 1975 took over the chairmanship of the FDP parliamentary group from Hermann Oxfort , who was elected Senator for Justice. In 1981 he was the driving force behind the coming to terms with the Garski affair . In June 1981 he and three other FDP parliamentarians enabled the CDU to form the Berlin state government. Vetter and MPs Walter Rasch , Jürgen Dittberner and Edgar Swinne tolerated Richard von Weizsäcker's Senate in a parliamentary stalemate against a decision by the FDP state party conference . In their opinion, Berlin needed a government capable of acting. Although they were encouraged by the FDP chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the FDP state executive initiated a party regulation procedure. Vetter responded with an advertising campaign in which he called on citizens to join the FDP in order to change the majority in the party. On March 12, 1983, the Berlin FDP state party conference decided to enter into a coalition with the CDU.
On March 17, 1983 Vetter was elected Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection in the Senate Richard von Weizsäcker . He kept the office in the following senates under Eberhard Diepgen . In April 1986 he had to resign after it became public that he had accepted a donation of 10,000 marks in cash from the Berlin mortgage lender Kurt Franke . As the Berlin Regional Court later found, he had not made himself an offense. Because as a witness , however, had made to the prosecutor untrue information on the amount of the donation, he was in 1988 for perjury to a prison sentence of eleven months on probation convicted.
literature
- Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 376.
Web links
- Berlin: FDP wants to join the Senate , in the time of February 25, 1983
See also
Carl-Hubert Schwennicke (1950–1956) | Paul Ronge (1956–1958) | Hermann Oxfort (1963–1975) | Horst Vetter (1975–1983) | Walter Rasch (1983–1989) | Carola von Braun (1991-1994) | Axel Kammholz (1994–1995) | Günter Rexrodt (2001–2002) | Martin Lindner (2002–2009) | Christoph Meyer (2009–2011) | Sebastian Czaja (since 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cousin, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag and Senator for Urban Development and the Environment in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |