Andreas Schockenhoff

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Andreas Schockenhoff (2014)

Andreas Schockenhoff (* 23. February 1957 in Ludwigsburg , † 13 December 2014 in Ravensburg ) was a German politician of the CDU and from December 1990 until his death a member of the German Bundestag . In the 2013 Bundestag election , he was elected to the German Bundestag for the seventh time in a row by direct mandate for the Ravensburg constituency.

Life

education and profession

After graduating from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg in 1976 , Schockenhoff studied Romance languages , German and history in Tübingen and Grenoble . During his studies he became a member of the KStV Alamannia Tübingen in the KV . From 1982 to 1984 he was a trainee teacher for high schools. In 1985 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with the work of Henri Albert and the Germany image of the Mercure de France 1890–1905 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Then he was a teacher at the Free Catholic High School in the St. Konrad Education Center in Ravensburg until 1990 .

Party career

After joining the Junge Union as a student in 1973 , he became a member of the CDU in 1982. From 2000 to 2011 he was chairman of the CDU district association Württemberg-Hohenzollern and was a member of the presidium and state board of the CDU Baden-Württemberg .

Member of Parliament

Schockenhoff was first elected to the German Bundestag in the Bundestag election on December 2, 1990 . In 1994 he became chairman of the Franco-German parliamentary group and remained so until his death. From 1998 to 2005 - during this time a red-green coalition ruled under Gerhard Schröder - he was deputy foreign policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . On November 29, 2005, shortly after the 2005 Bundestag election , he was elected deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group for foreign affairs, defense and Europe. From 2006 Schockenhoff also acted as the Federal Government's coordinator for German-Russian inter-society cooperation ; After the 2013 federal election , he was replaced in this role by Gernot Erler (SPD) in early 2014 .

Schockenhoff always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Bundestag constituency Ravensburg-Bodensee . In the 2005 Bundestag election he received 49.6% of the first vote . On June 27, 2008, Schockenhoff was nominated by the CDU general assembly of the new constituency of Ravensburg (now without Bodenseekreis, but with almost all municipalities in the Ravensburg district ) with 58.3% of the votes as a direct candidate for the 2009 Bundestag election. There he received 44.8% of the first votes and thus the direct mandate of the constituency. In 2013 he moved into the Bundestag with 51.6% of the first votes. After his death, Ronja Kemmer (then still Ronja Schmitt) took up his position.

Private

Andreas Schockenhoff was a brother of the moral theologian Eberhard Schockenhoff (1953-2020). He was Catholic and had three children. His first wife died of cancer in 2002; his second marriage was divorced in 2011 and his third in 2013. Schockenhoff lived in Ravensburg until the end.

Traffic accidents under the influence of alcohol

In 1995 and 1998 Schockenhoff was put on record with traffic accidents under the influence of alcohol. In early 1998 came Schockenhoff with his car in winter conditions of the road and was due to ride in a drunken state, a driving ban . According to a report by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , the drunk driving Schockenhoffs were treated twice in the immunity committee of the German Bundestag . Schockenhoff himself confirmed an incident in the 1990s.

In 2011 he fled an accident after an accident with a parked car. The police found him drunk in his apartment that evening and arranged for a blood sample to be taken. After the political immunity was lifted , the Ravensburg public prosecutor's office initiated an investigation against Schockenhoff on the same day on suspicion of endangering road traffic as well as unauthorized removal from the scene of the accident and drunkenness in traffic ; he was also provisionally revoked on the same day. At the end of November 2011, the Ravensburg District Court issued a penalty order for “unauthorized removal from the scene of the accident and drunkenness in traffic” at a rate of 60 daily rates, with which Schockenhoff was not regarded as a criminal record. In addition, Schockenhoff's license was withdrawn for a further seven months. Taking into account the "non- excludable night drink " stated by Schockenhoff , it can be assumed that Schockenhoff had a blood alcohol concentration of at least 1.18 per mille at the time of the crime, which meant that the absolute inability to drive limit of 1.1 per mille was exceeded.

On July 7, 2011, Schockenhoff made his alcoholic illness known and added that he would undergo inpatient therapy. In order to get a grip on it, Schockenhoff completed a four-week “depth and behavioral psychological therapy”, which he wanted to continue on an outpatient basis. According to him, his blood values ​​were “relatively good” and “the physical dependence was not yet far advanced”, so that he “did not have to detox or take any medication”.

death

Schockenhoff died on the night of December 14, 2014 in his hometown. He had suffered first- and second-degree burns from scalds in his home sauna. The Ravensburg District Court ordered an autopsy, which revealed that Schockenhoff died of natural causes. Schockenhoff was buried on December 19, 2014 in the main cemetery in Ravensburg.

Posthumous

In 2017 he was posthumously awarded the Robert Schuman Medal . In May 2019 the first lecture in the “Schockenhoff Lectures” series took place. It was held by Chancellor Angela Merkel .

Political positions

Combat operation of the Bundeswehr in Mali

In January 2013, Schockenhoff was the first German politician to publicly declare that the Bundeswehr may have to fight in the context of the Serval Operation in Mali .

Procurement of drones for the Bundeswehr

Schockenhoff advocated the procurement of drones for the Bundeswehr. In June 2013 he defended the role of Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière in the scandal surrounding the procurement of drones for the German armed forces .

Controversy about Volker Beck (2006)

In May 2006, the Greens MP Volker Beck took part in an unauthorized civil rights demonstration by lesbians and gays in Moscow . He was injured by stones and blows from opponents of the demonstration. Schockenhoff explained: "You have to adjust to the political order of a host country". He speculated: "Beck wanted a headline for himself". Beck “could not complain that the Russian police did not“ guarantee him the necessary protection ”. This statement by Schockenhoff was criticized (sometimes violently) by representatives of all parties represented in the Bundestag. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel distanced herself reportedly shock Hoffs statements. Beck himself replied: "If the citizens of Poland or the GDR had adhered to the political order of their country, we would still have communist dictatorships today ."

The motion of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group (June 2006) to fill the office of Federal Government Coordinator for German-Russian Cooperation (Drs. 16/1885) was rejected with 128: 410: 20 votes. All members of the Greens, a large part of the FDP parliamentary group and the left parliamentary group and three members of the SPD parliamentary group voted in favor of the motion.

Foreign policy engagement

After Schockenhoff became the coordinator of the then federal government ( Merkel I cabinet , grand coalition) for German-Russian inter-societal cooperation in 2006 , he expressed himself more clearly than many other politicians on conditions and developments in Russia, which he considered to be grievances and undesirable developments. At times he was not received by the Russian leadership, which amounted to a diplomatic affront. The SPD and individual Union politicians therefore urged at the end of 2013 - after the formation of the new grand coalition ( Merkel III cabinet ) for another coordinator to be elected. On November 21, 2013, a phase of protest began in Ukraine (known in the West as Euromaidan , in Ukraine retrospectively called the 'Revolution of Dignity'). February 2014 ended with the escape and removal of the president. This phase was followed by the conflict with Russia over the Crimean peninsula and the destabilization caused by an armed conflict in two eastern oblasts of Ukraine , both of which were ongoing at the time of his death.

While other politicians in the grand coalition warned against an intensification of the conflict with Russia, Schockenhoff demanded that the West should not allow itself to be blackmailed by Vladimir Putin and that it should not recognize Russia's breach of international law in any way. As long as Putin does not withdraw Russian soldiers and weapons from Ukraine, the West must not relax or withdraw the sanctions that have been imposed; he should rather tighten it. On July 1, 2014, Schockenhoff and the chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group, Karl-Georg Wellmann , published a position paper on this.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Schockenhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Schockenhoff died. In: Zeit Online. December 14, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ CDU-CSU parliamentary group: We mourn Andreas Schockenhoff. December 14, 2014, accessed December 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ CDU MP Schockenhoff died: State politicians dismayed ( Schwäbische Zeitung , December 14, 2014, accessed on December 14, 2014)
  4. ↑ a b c CV ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ www.andreas-schockenhoff.de ( Memento from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 15, 2014
  6. ↑ Shift of emphasis in German Russia policy. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. January 11, 2014, p. 5
  7. ↑ www.gernot-erler.de; German-Russian relations "It makes sense to avoid allergic reactions"
  8. ↑ (against 41.7% for his challenger Eugen Abler)
  9. ↑ Constituencies and election results 2009. ( Memento from July 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Wahlkreis 294 Ravensburg
  10. ↑ Constituencies and election results 2013. Constituency 294 Ravensburg
  11. ↑ a b Vera Kämper with material from Reuters: Autopsy result: Politician Schockenhoff died of natural causes. In: Spiegel Online , December 17, 2014
  12. ↑ a b c biography of Andreas Schockenhoff. Schwäbische Zeitung, accessed on December 14, 2014
  13. ↑ Politics and alcohol: Schockenhoff wants to go back to the Bundestag Spiegel Online from September 4, 2011, accessed on July 14, 2015
  14. ^ Investigations against Schockenhoff initiated , Stuttgarter Zeitung of July 7, 2011
  15. ↑ CDU federal politicians under suspicion , Südkurier, July 6, 2011
  16. ↑ Advice on alcohol problems  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 6, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rhein-berg-online.ksta.de  
  17. ↑ Politics and alcohol: Breaking taboos in Berlin drinking establishments , Spiegel-online from July 8, 2011
  18. ↑ Schockenhoff: "I am alcoholic" , Schwäbische Zeitung of July 7, 2011
  19. ↑ a b penalty order issued against Schockenhoff , Schwäbische Zeitung dated November 30, 2011
  20. ↑ a b Penalty order against Andreas Schockenhoff , Südkurier dated November 30, 2011
  21. ↑ Personal declaration ( memento of August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 49 kB) of July 7, 2011
  22. ↑ Schockenhoff wants to run again in 2013 in: Schwäbische Zeitung August 30, 2011
  23. ↑ At the age of 57: CDU foreign politician Andreas Schockenhoff is dead. In: Spiegel Online , December 14, 2014
  24. ↑ SIR / dpa: Death in the sauna - Schockenhoff died of scalds , Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 17, 2014
  25. ^ The body of Putin critic is autopsied. In: Die Welt , accessed on December 16, 2014
  26. ↑ FAZ.net: The value of our imperfect world order
  27. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau from January 14, 2013
  28. ↑ spiegel.de of June 6, 2013 / Mathias Zschaler: De-Maizière-Talk on “Anne Will”: Uninhibitedly whitewashed .
  29. ↑ Volker Beck beaten up. Sueddeutsche.de/AFP, May 27, 2006, accessed on August 25, 2009 .
  30. ^ Severin Weiland: Attack in Moscow: Merkel criticizes Beck in the CDU. Spiegel Online, May 29, 2006, accessed on August 25, 2009 : "The statements made by the CDU foreign politician Andreas Schockenhoff about the attack on the Green politician Volker Beck have caused displeasure in the Union faction."
  31. ↑ Volker Beck: Restricted freedom of expression in Moscow. (No longer available online.) WDR, May 29, 2009, archived from the original on February 12, 2007 ; Retrieved August 25, 2009 .
  32. ↑ bundestag.de (pdf)
  33. ↑ bundestag.de (overview)
  34. ↑ Note: see also his speech in the Bundestag on September 11, 2014: Video (Bundestag)
  35. ↑ For a new definition of relations with Russia - position paper ( Memento of December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Schockenhoff, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2014
Place of death Ravensburg