Adolf Niggemeier

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Adolf Niggemeier (* 21st May 1931 in Riesa ) is a former politician of the CDU in the GDR and a lawyer . For some time he was CDU parliamentary group leader in the People's Chamber and for decades was an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security .

Life

Niggemeier was born on May 21, 1931 in Riesa, Saxony, the son of a worker. After attending elementary and high school, he passed his Abitur in 1949 . A year earlier he had joined the CDU. After completing school, Niggemeier initially worked as a legal intern at the Riesa district court . In 1950 he began his law studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he graduated in 1954 with a degree in law. Niggemeier began his party career as a member of the CDU district committee in Riesa from 1950 to 1952. From 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the CDU district committee in Leipzig .

In 1955 Niggemeier moved up to the main board in Berlin. Until 1977 he worked initially as a staff member, later as head of the Politics, West Germany and International Relations department at the secretariat of the main board of the CDU. Due to this activity, he was also appointed to the working committee of the Berlin Conference of Catholic Christians from European States in 1966, which he remained until 1977. In 1967 Niggemeier was elected to the Volkskammer as Berlin representative. At the same time, due to his profession as a lawyer, he was called in as an expert on the draft of the new GDR constitution . He remained a member of the CDU parliamentary group until March 1990. In 1977 Niggemeier was elected to the presidium of the main board of the CDU and replaced Hermann Kalb as secretary for agitation on the main board. In 1980 he was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for his political activities . At the beginning of the 8th electoral term of the People's Chamber in 1981, Niggemeier became a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee. In the 9th electoral term from 1986 he was vice chairman of the committee.

In the days of political change in the GDR in autumn 1989, Niggemeier took over important functions in the CDU parliamentary group for a time. First, on November 11, 1989, he took over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group from Wolfgang Heyl, who had resigned the day before . On November 17, he was also elected to the Presidium of the People's Chamber for Heyl. After the first free elections to the People's Chamber on March 18, 1990, Niggemeier initially remained parliamentary group manager, albeit without a mandate. From April 1990 he was appointed director of the People's Chamber Administration and was thus also responsible for the liquidation and dissolution of the institutions belonging to the People's Chamber from October 1990. In 1991, the next member of the Bundestag, Else Ackermann Niggemeier, appointed a personal advisor in her Bundestag office. When she left in 1994, Niggemeier returned to practice as a lawyer and settled as a lawyer in Berlin.

State Security staff

In 1997, research by the Gauck authorities made it known that Niggemeier had worked for the Ministry of State Security for decades since 1954 (at that time as a secret informator ) as the highly acclaimed IM "Benno Roth" . From 1954 until the end of the GDR, he had fulfilled the task of spying on and influencing the West German CDU.

Works

  • Path and goal of the Adenauer CDU . Castle divisions in 1961 (together with Hermann Kalb and Karl-Heinz Puff).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decision of the People's Chamber of December 1, 1967
  2. ↑ Gerhard Besier: SPIONAGE: Benno from the block party. In: Focus Online . February 3, 1997, accessed January 4, 2015 .
  3. ^ Walter Suess : State Security at the End. Ch. Links Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-861-53181-4 , p. 716. limited preview in Google book search

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SURNAME Niggemeier, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdV, unofficial employee of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesa