Artur Stegner

Artur Stegner (born June 10, 1907 in Katowice ; † August 5, 1986 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German politician of the FDP and later of the GB / BHE .

Life

As a graduate chemist, Stegner owned chemical companies in Berlin and Breslau before World War II . Stegner joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931 under membership number 738.790. From 1945 he was involved in building a chemical factory in Holzminden . After the end of the war, he joined the FDP in 1945 and became its state chairman in Lower Saxony in 1949. From 1951 to 1954 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee . On January 14, 1954, he left the party and parliamentary group after allegations that he was involved in financial manipulation. On February 7, 1957, Stegner joined the GB / BHE .

In 1946 he moved into the city council of Holzminden and the district council . Stegner was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1957. In 1951 he was also elected member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony, but resigned the mandate on December 1, 1951 in order to concentrate on the Bundestag mandate.

According to the findings of the Lower Saxony state parliament, Stegner offered himself as an informant after his time as a member of the Bundestag for the main clear-up administration (HV A) of the GDR Ministry for State Security . The reason should have been financial problems. However, the HV A soon ended the collaboration because its reports were worthless.

Publications

(with Paul Schnoeckel ): Struggle for German living space. A consideration of colonial politics , Stilke, Berlin 1932.
Overcoming collectivism , Göttinger Verlagsanstalt, Göttingen 1953.

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. 366.
Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in Lower Saxony's parliamentary groups of the CDU, FDP and DP (PDF; 1.8 MB), 2008, p. 22.
↑ According to a CIA report from August 1952, an unnamed Swiss source is said to have brought Stegner into connection with alleged membership in the SS and work for the SD . The Federal Chancellery requested an investigation into the case and, according to the report, the allegations are said to have occasionally been discussed in a meeting at ministerial council level with the secret service chief Reinhard Gehlen . According to the current state of knowledge, however, the allegations have not been substantiated. "THE FEDERAL CHANCELERY". Central Intelligence Agency , August 22, 1952, archived from the original July 30, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2010 .
^ Report of the "Inquiry Commission 'Treason of Freedom - Machinations of the Stasi in Lower Saxony' of the Lower Saxony State Parliament", Göttingen 2017, vol. 1, p. 40 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Stegner, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP, GB-BHE), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	June 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Katowice
DATE OF DEATH	5th August 1986
Place of death	Bad Reichenhall

[1] Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in Lower Saxony's parliamentary groups of the CDU, FDP and DP (PDF; 1.8 MB), 2008, p. 22.

[2] According to a CIA report from August 1952, an unnamed Swiss source is said to have brought Stegner into connection with alleged membership in the SS and work for the SD . The Federal Chancellery requested an investigation into the case and, according to the report, the allegations are said to have occasionally been discussed in a meeting at ministerial council level with the secret service chief Reinhard Gehlen . According to the current state of knowledge, however, the allegations have not been substantiated. "THE FEDERAL CHANCELERY". Central Intelligence Agency , August 22, 1952, archived from the original July 30, 2012 ; Retrieved April 18, 2010 .

[3] Report of the "Inquiry Commission 'Treason of Freedom - Machinations of the Stasi in Lower Saxony' of the Lower Saxony State Parliament", Göttingen 2017, vol. 1, p. 40 f.