Anton Teyssen

Candidate poster for the state election in Lower Saxony in 1974

Anton Teyssen (born November 6, 1922 in Emden ; † October 12, 2003 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

After completing secondary school, Anton Teyssen completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . He began studying architecture, but this was interrupted by his participation in World War II. He served as a pioneer officer , suffered several war injuries and returned from the war severely disabled . He obtained his higher education entrance qualification through the second educational path and studied German, history, geography and philosophy at the University of Göttingen from 1947 to 1952 and passed the first and second state exams. He worked at the Hildesheim High School Josephinum as director of studies, at the Hildesheim state study seminar as head of political education, and at the Hanover regional president and at the state level as a specialist advisor for political education until he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1974. In addition, he was involved in the development of teaching lines and accompanying materials for high schools.

He joined the Junge Union (JU) and the CDU in 1954. In the JU he was first a member of the state board, later he also held this office in the CDU. He took over the chairmanship of the CDU district of Hildesheim-Stadt and the deputy chairmanship of the Hildesheim CDU district association. He also worked as a member of the supervisory board of Stadttheater Hildesheim GmbH. In 1958 he was elected to the city council of Hildesheim and worked there until 2001 as an alderman, council committee chairman and board member of the council group of the CDU. In the Hildesheim district he was a member of the district council from 1981 to 1986.

From June 21, 1974 to June 20, 1990 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (8th to 11th electoral term). From June 22, 1982 to June 20, 1990 he took over the position of secretary of the Lower Saxony state parliament and from June 23, 1982 to January 12, 1984 he was chairman of the committee for science and art. He resigned this chair on December 6, 1983. The occasion was an unsuccessful, very controversial speech at the meeting of the City Council of Hildesheim on November 21, 1983.

He was one of the 63 founding donors of the bone carving office in Hildesheim in 1995. On November 6, 2002, he received the Federal Cross of Merit for his more than forty years of political work . He was married and has two children. His nephew Johannes Teyssen is the CEO of E.ON AG .

He was a member of the Catholic student association KStV Winfridia Göttingen .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 379.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quote in DER SPIEGEL, December 5, 1983