Bernhard Bussmann

Bernhard Bussmann (born July 1, 1929 in Essen , † November 22, 2013 in Lüdenscheid ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Bussmann was born the son of a tobacco salesman. From 1940 to 1947 he attended secondary schools in Essen-Borbeck and Mülheim an der Ruhr . He graduated from high school in 1948 at the preparatory college of the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he began studying history and German studies, continued after a long break at the University of Kiel and graduated in 1965 with a doctoral thesis on the unions in the Weimar Republic. From 1956 to 1961 he was a research assistant at the Department of Science and History of Politics at the University of Kiel and then until 1965 as a department head at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy . From 1965 to 1969 he worked as a scientific advisor for the SPD parliamentary group, was a member of the Bundestag from 1969 to 1980 and headed the German Committee for European and International Cooperation in Bonn as General Secretary from 1982 to 1986. During his subsequent journalistic activity, he wrote for the Berliner Zeitung for a year and a half from 1990 to 1991 . He died on November 22, 2013 in Lüdenscheid.

Political party

Bussmann joined the SPD in 1964 and was chairman of the SPD sub-district Rhein-Sieg-Kreis from 1967 to 1974 .

MP

Bussmann was in the federal election in 1969 over the national list of SPD North Rhine-Westphalia in the German Bundestag elected, which he belonged to the 1980th From 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the council of elders and deputy chairman of the budget committee.

Publications: Bussmann wrote the novel Somewhere it was shit , crisis years in Essen 1920–1936, Heimsheim 2010.

The detective novel Aceton-Plus, a thriller from the Bonn republic , was published posthumously in July 2014 on Amazon as an e-book.

literature

• 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 , p. 117.