Carl-Ludwig Wagner
Carl-Ludwig Wagner (* 9. January 1930 in Dusseldorf , † 27. July 2012 in Trier ) was a German lawyer and politician of the CDU . Wagner was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1976 and held the office of Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate between 1988 and 1991 .
Life
education
Wagner was born in 1930 as the son of a publisher in Düsseldorf, after the Second World War the family moved to Trier. In 1949 graduated from Wagner age of 19, the High School at Trier Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium what he studying law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Montpellier I joined. In 1953 Wagner took the first legal exam and four years later the second . Between 1953 and 1955 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Mainz. In 1957 he joined the administration of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, from 1959 the advocate of European unification and Franco-German friendship was employed for ten years in the General Secretariat of the European Parliament in Luxembourg , of which he became director in 1964. In 1961 Wagner received his doctorate in Mainz with his 99-page dissertation "The legal action for avoidance of French administrative law " as a doctor of law .
Party career
Wagner had been a member of the CDU since 1951. From 1952 to 1953 he was managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1984 to 1991 he was chairman of the Trier district association, and later honorary chairman until his death.
Member of Parliament
Wagner was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 until his resignation on April 8, 1976 .
From 1983 to 1991 Wagner was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .
Public offices
From 1976 to 1979 Wagner was Lord Mayor of Trier.
On December 13, 1979, he was appointed Minister of Justice to the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel . On June 11, 1981, he then took over the management of the Ministry of Finance.
After Bernhard Vogel resigned, Wagner was elected Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate on December 8, 1988 . During his term of office, the direct election of mayors and the beginning of the partnership with the Chinese province of Fujian fell .
In the state elections on April 21, 1991 , the CDU suffered considerable losses of 6.4 percentage points and thus for the first time lost its position as the strongest political force in Rhineland-Palatinate. In contrast, the SPD achieved gains of 6.0 percentage points. Wagner's previous coalition partner, the FDP , entered into a coalition with the SPD.
As a result, Wagner gave up his position on May 21, 1991 to Rudolf Scharping .
Professional
From 1992 to 1997 Carl-Ludwig Wagner was chairman of the board of Thuringian Aufbaubank in Erfurt ; In 1998 he was an arbitrator in public sector collective bargaining.
Personal
Carl-Ludwig Wagner lived in Trier-Ruwer . He was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ketteler Mainz in KV . His daughter Christine Langenfeld is Professor of Public Law at the University of Göttingen and has been a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since July 2016 . His son Bernhard Wagner has a doctorate in engineering and IT entrepreneur in Darmstadt, his son Wolfgang Wagner is professor of medicine at the University of Tübingen and chief physician in Munich.
Awards
- 1980: Order Against the Trier Ernst
- 1982: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1989: Franz Weissebach Prize
- 1996: Great Cross of Merit (1990) with star and shoulder ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Honorary Councilor of the Carnival Society (KG) Rote Funken
See also
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 912-913.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl-Ludwig Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry and obituary for and on Carl-Ludwig Wagner on the website of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 100 largest Rhineland-Palatinate: Dr. Carl-Ludwig Wagner (95) ( German ) In: swr.de . Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ↑ Former Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner buried ( German ) In: volksfreund.de . Retrieved August 14, 2012.
- ↑ Press release of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery of July 28, 2012 ( Memento of May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 28, 2012
- ↑ Information about Wagner on a page of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , accessed on July 28, 2012
- ^ Biography of Carl-Ludwig Wagner , Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , accessed on July 28, 2012
- ↑ Former Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Wagner has died. In: Welt Online . Retrieved July 28, 2012 .
- ↑ K.St.V. 50 years, Ketteler
- ^ Former Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner buried , volksfreund.de , August 3, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2013.
- ^ Thuringian State Chancellery
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Carl-Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2012 |
| Place of death | trier |