Achim-Helge von Beust

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Achim-Helge Marquard Freiherr von Beust (born March 16, 1917 in Lübeck ; † January 7, 2007 in Hamburg ) was a German politician in Hamburg and a founding member and honorary member of the CDU state association there .

Life

Von Beust was born in Lübeck, the son of a court judge. After the family moved to Hamburg in 1935, he passed the Abitur at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium Wandsbek . In 1938 he joined a cavalry regiment. Dismissed from service due to illness, he studied law at the University of Rostock in the summer semester of 1942 and switched to another university in December. As a trainee lawyer in 1945, he was one of the founders of the Hamburg CDU, for which he won a mandate in the 1946 state election. In 1950 he entered the Hamburg civil service. Because of this activity he resigned on December 31, 1951, his citizenship mandate, which was defended in 1949 . From 1954 to 1980 von Beust was the district office manager of Hamburg-Wandsbek , at that time the only CDU-run district office in the otherwise SPD- governed city-state of Hamburg. He was known as the Black Baron von Wandsbek .

Von Beust was married to Hanna Wolff († 1995), who was classified as “half-Jewish” according to the Nuremberg Laws . The youngest of his three sons is Ole von Beust , Hamburg's First Mayor from 2001 to 2010 . His eldest son, Michael von Beust (* 1942), was a staff officer at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, a colonel and, most recently, a German military attaché in Austria. His grandmother Armgart von Beust is the twin sister Gertrud Elisabeth von Beusts, the great-grandmother of Jutta Ditfurth .

Von Beust was known across party lines for his liberalism, and in an interview with Die Welt am Sonntag in 2003 he also publicly affirmed his son Ole's homosexuality after he was put under pressure by Interior Senator Ronald Schill . According to the press reports at the time, it was the father who "outed" the son without being asked, but this contributed to Ole von Beust's increase in popularity, while Schill disappeared from the political scene in the Hanseatic city.

On May 12, 2006, von Beust was honored by Chancellor Angela Merkel on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Hamburg CDU . His grave is in the Wohldorf-Ohlstedt cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Achim-Helge von Beust in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Jens Meyer-Odewald: Visiting the brother of the Hamburg mayor ; Hamburger Abendblatt, issue of June 25, 2008.
  3. ^ From Elective Affinities ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . taz of September 22, 2010
  4. ↑ Dagmar von Taube: Achim von Beust: "Ole, he has freed himself" ; World on Sunday, August 31, 2003.
  5. ↑ A district office manager unpacks - The father of Hamburg mayor Ole von Beust chatted about his son ; Article in the taz of September 3, 2003.
  6. ↑ 60 years: CDU Hamburg with Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Mayor Ole von Beust. Heavenly fireworks on the CDU birthday ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Article on the website of the CDU Hamburg with photos
  7. ↑ Tobi Thomsen: Personalities: past, but not forgotten: Where personalities found their final resting place . Page 152. Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-7431-1236-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Beust, Achim-Helge from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beust, Achim-Helge Marquard Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2007
Place of death Hamburg