Alfons Pawelczyk

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Alfons Pawelczyk

Alfons Franz Pawelczyk (born February 26, 1933 in Parnow , Pomerania ) is a German officer ( major out of service and colonel of the reserve ) and politician ( SPD ). Pawelczyk was a police officer in Berlin and a professional soldier in the German armed forces in the 1950s. From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag , in 1980 he became a member of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . He was Senator for the Interior from 1980 to 1984 and 1986/87 , at times also Second Mayor under Klaus von Dohnanyi . From 1988 to 1991 he remained a member of the Hamburg parliament .

Life

Pawelczyk was born in 1933 as the son of a severely disabled person from the First World War in the Köslin district in Pomerania. He grew up in a boarding school. In 1945 he was evacuated to the western occupation zones before the advancing Red Army .

After the Second World War he became a foster child with farmers in Holstein; He only met his parents again in a refugee camp two years later with the help of the German Red Cross . He passed the secondary school leaving certificate at the Schloss Plön boarding school in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1951/52 he trained in mining, civil engineering and civil engineering .

Alfons Pawelczyk is a Protestant, father of three children and was married to his wife Waltraud (born Wernau; † 2019) for 66 years.

Military background

After serving in the riot Berlin from 1952 to 1955, he joined in 1956 as a soldier to the army of the Bundeswehr . There he was promoted to major . During his active service he was u. a. Teacher at the Army Officer School II in Hamburg. Pawelczyk was put into temporary retirement in 1969 because of assumption of the political mandate and was thus a major out of service .

Simultaneously with his political activity, he continued his military career in the career of the reserve and achieved the rank of colonel of the reserve .

Other activities

Memberships

Pawelczyk was a member of the Friday Society founded in 1985 .

politics

Working groups

From 1977 to 1980 Pawelczyk headed the International Security Study Group of the German Society for Foreign Policy ; his successor was Egon Bahr . He was also head of the discussion group on security and disarmament of the SPD-affiliated Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . He publishes in specialist and cultural journals such as Europa-Archiv , Merkur , Neue Gesellschaft and Sicherheit und Frieden .

Political party

In 1961 he joined the SPD. There he took over the Hamburg-Wandsbek district association . He also became a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Hamburg . He became chairman of the Hamburg working group on security and a member of the security committee of the SPD party executive . Pawelczyk was considered a disarmament and defense expert for his party.

Member of the Bundestag

In the 6th – 9th Election period (1969-1980) sat Pawelczyk as a list (10th place), later direct candidate for the constituency of Wandsbek (17th) and Hamburg-Wandsbek (16th) in the German Bundestag . He achieved 55.0% (1972), 48.3% (1976) and 54.5% (1980) of the first votes. Pawelczyk was a full member of the Defense Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee and an alternate member of the Interior Committee . He was also a member of the North Atlantic Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Assembly of the Western European Union.

He became chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control and, because of the threat to Germany and Western Europe from Soviet medium-range missiles at the time, he strongly advocated the so-called NATO double resolution as a means of foreign and security pressure on Moscow , in the end of which the two superpowers actually called the " Double zero solution ”agreed. He did not move in this stance when the SPD moved away from his foreign and security policy after the end of the reign of Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, the author of the double resolution.

MP

From 1982 to 1991 Pawelczyk was a member of the Hamburg parliament , although his mandate was suspended during the Senate period (1982–1988).

Member of the Hamburg Senate

From November 26th, 1980 to June 13th, 1984 he was Senator for the Interior of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , first with the First Mayor Hans-Ulrich Klose and after his resignation in 1981 with Klaus von Dohnanyi . In the course of a reshuffle of the Senate - due to the resignation of Finance Senator Jörg König - he became Second Mayor in 1984 as the successor to Helga Elstner (until 1987).

Pawelczyk, Voscherau and the then President of the Federal Council Bernhard Vogel in 1988 in the former State Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Bonn)

In addition, from 1984 to 1988 he was sent to Bonn as a Hamburg representative at the federal government and made him the Senate Office for the administrative service . After his successor in the Interior Department, Rolf Lange , had to resign as a result of the so-called "Hamburg Kessel", he was also sent to the Interior Authority from August 7, 1986 to September 2, 1987 in addition to his offices. Immediately after the First Mayor's announcement of his resignation, Pawelczyk also announced his departure on May 31, 1988.

In 1982 Pawelczyk founded the so-called ard; 65 of the Hamburg police to fight organized crime , which at the time was unique in Germany.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Alfons Pawelczyk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the ` ` Hamburger Abendblatt '' from May 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Pawelczyk, Alfons" in Munzinger Online / Persons - International Biographical Archive
  3. ↑ Commercial register, Hamburg District Court HRB 53897
  4. ↑ In- house communication on: Lobbyists , DER SPIEGEL 43/1993 of October 25, 1993
  5. ^ "Handelsblatt, January 13, 1999
  6. ↑ Board of Directors and Board of Trustees , wayback hausrissen.org, March 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Creating great things together , stiftung-elbphilharmonie.de, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Departure into the future ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tuhh.de, accessed on February 2, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuhh.de
  9. ↑ Helmut Schmidt: The late years, by Thomas Karlauf (2016)
  10. ↑ Hans Jakob Ginsburg: Politics, pistols and police officers . In: Die Zeit , No. 33/1986
personal data
SURNAME Pawelczyk, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pawelczyk, Alfons Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnow , Pomerania