August Lang (politician)
August "Gustl" Richard Lang (born February 26, 1929 in Eslarn ; † September 29, 2004 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) was a German CSU politician . Between 1982 and 1993 he was Minister of State in various departments of the Bavarian State Government .
Life
Lang was born the fourth of eleven children. When his father was transferred to the regional court as judicial secretary , the family moved from Eslarn to Weiden in the Upper Palatinate in 1938.
Lang attended grammar school there and graduated from high school in 1949. Lang began studying law and economics at the University of Erlangen . In 1958 he passed the Great State Examination in Law and founded his own law firm in Weiden in 1959. In 1960 Lang married Lisl Haberstumpf.
Lang was elected to the city council of Weiden in 1966 and was elected deputy chairman of the CSU district association in Upper Palatinate the following year. In 1970 August Lang moved into the Bavarian state parliament . There he took over the chairmanship of the CSU parliamentary group after the state elections in 1974. In 1982, Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of Justice .
1983 Lang succeeded Franz Sackmann as the Upper Palatinate district chairman of the CSU. In the course of the cabinet reshuffle after the state elections in 1986, he took over the interior department . After Strauss's death in October 1988, Lang became economics minister in the Streibl cabinet . With the resignation of Max Streibl and the election of Edmund Stoiber as Prime Minister, he lost the office of Minister of Economics and left the cabinet.
During his time as Minister of Justice and then Minister of the Interior, the disputes over the reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf , one of the bitterest chapters of his career as a minister, took place. His office as Minister of the Interior made it necessary to represent the building uncritically, and to do this to his voters in Upper Palatinate, of all people. However, Lang represented the extremely tough line of the state government against opponents of WAA with full conviction: After the unprecedented brutal police attacks against peaceful demonstrators on October 10, 1987, he scoffed at a question time in the state parliament: “Now the police have arrived ... now it's howling the other side again. ”At the same time, he expressly certified the police with“ excellent work ”and praised the Berlin special command responsible for the violence for its work.
As Minister of Economics, he then set the course for the construction of the A 93 and the establishment of the Amberg-Weiden University of Applied Sciences . The former WAA site became a large industrial area.
In June 1993, Lang resigned from the cabinet and resumed his practice as a lawyer. In 1998, Lang resigned from the Bavarian state parliament, and in 2002 from the Weiden city council.
On September 29, 2004, August Lang died of cancer at the Weiden Clinic at the age of 75 . He left behind his wife and two children.
Lang was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Rhenania Erlangen in KV .
Awards
- 1983: Honorary citizen of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate
- 1984: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1986: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1990: Honorary doctorate from the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg
- Honorary Senator of the East Bavarian Technical University of Amberg-Weiden
- 1987: Bavarian Order of Beer
Web links
- Literature by and about August Lang in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
Karl August Fischer (arr., 1945) | Josef Seifried (1945–1947) | Willi Ankermüller (1947–1950) | Wilhelm Hoegner (1950–1954) | August Geislhöringer (1954–1957) | Otto Bezold (1957–1958) | Alfons Goppel (1958–1962) | Heinrich Junker (1962–1966) | Bruno Merk (1966–1977) | Alfred Seidl (1977–1978) | Gerold Tandler (1978–1982) | Karl Hillermeier (1982–1986) | August Lang (1986–1988) | Edmund Stoiber (1988-1993) | Günther Beckstein (1993-2007) | Joachim Herrmann (since 2007)
Hans Ehard (1945) | Wilhelm Hoegner (1945–1947) | Josef Müller (1947–1952) | Otto Weinkamm (1952–1954) | Fritz Koch (1954–1957) | Willi Ankermüller (1957–1958) | Albrecht Haas (1958–1962) | Hans Ehard (1962–1966) | Philipp Held (1966–1974) | Karl Hillermeier (1974–1982) | August Lang (1982–1986) | Mathilde Berghofer-Weichner (1986–1993) | Hermann Leeb (1993–1998) | Alfred Sauter (1998–1999) | Manfred Weiß (1999–2003) | Beate Merk (2003–2013) | Winfried Bausback (2013–2018) | Georg Eisenreich (since 2018)
Michael Helmerich (1946) | Otto Frommknecht (1947–1950) | Hans Ehard (1951–1952) | Hanns Seidel (1952–1954) | Otto Bezold (1954–1957) | Otto Schedl (1957-1970) | Anton Jaumann (1970–1988) | Gerold Tandler (1988) | August Lang (1988–1993) | Otto Wiesheu (1993-2005) | Erwin Huber (2005–2007) | Emilia Müller (2007-2008) | Martin Zeil (2008–2013) | Joachim Herrmann (2013–2018) | Ilse Aigner (2018) | Hans Reichhart (2018-2020) | Kerstin Schreyer (since 2020)
Karl Lange (1945) | Ludwig Erhard (1945–1946) | Rudolf Zorn (1947) | Hanns Seidel (1947–1954) | Otto Bezold (1954–1957) | Otto Schedl (1957-1970) | Anton Jaumann (1970–1988) | Gerold Tandler (1988) | August Lang (1988–1993) | Otto Wiesheu (1993-2005) | Erwin Huber (2005–2007) | Emilia Müller (2007-2008) | Martin Zeil (2008–2013) | Ilse Aigner (2013–2018) | Franz Pschierer (2018) | Hubert Aiwanger (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Long, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lang, August Richard (full name); Lang, Gustl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eslarn |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 2004 |
| Place of death | Willows in the Upper Palatinate |