Claus Arndt

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Claus Adel Arndt (born April 16, 1927 in Marburg ; † February 10, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).

Claus Arndt (2013)

Life

Arndt was born in 1927 as the son of the later crown lawyer of the SPD, Adolf Arndt and his wife Ruth Helbing. His grandfather, the constitutional and mining lawyer Adolf Arndt , was rector of the University of Königsberg . One of his ancestors is the lawyer Otto Helbig, Ministerialdirigent in the Prussian Ministry of Finance.

Claus Arndt attended high schools in Berlin , Innsbruck and in Lauban / Lower Silesia. In 1943 he made the Notabitur on the airbase Izbicko . Despite his status in the National Socialist terminology as a “Jewish mixed race” he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . After his release, he moved to his parents' home in Bonn in 1949 and again took his Abitur in 1950.

Arndt then studied law in Bonn , Munich and Hamburg and attended the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.

In 1951 he joined the SPD and became a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). From 1951 to 1955 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the SDS. He became a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). In 1959 he was at the University of Bonn with the work , the concept of party Organstreit proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court doctorate .

From 1959 to 1968 and 1973 to 1974 Arndt worked in the civil service of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, most recently as Senate Director. In 1960 he taught constitutional law at the Administration College and was a consultant for constitutional law in the Department of Home Affairs . From 1960 he was also a lecturer for constitutional law at the DHV Speyer and from 1983 at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration . From 1973 to 1974 he taught social sciences at the University of Hamburg. He was appointed professor in 1992.

From June 4, 1968 to 1972 and from May 20, 1974 to 1976 (succeeded Wilhelm Nölling ) he was a member of the German Bundestag as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) . Claus Arndt was always elected via the Hamburg state list. His father, Adolf Arndt, sat for the SPD in the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1969. To this day, Adolf and Claus Arndt are the only MPs who sat in the German Bundestag as father and son at the same time.

From 1969 to 1972 Claus Arndt was deputy chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee and from 1969 to 1974 a member of the Enquête Commission on Constitutional Affairs, from 1973 as chairman of the Parliament and Government sub-commission . He was also deputy chairman of the Guillaume Committee of Inquiry from 1974 to 1975. Long after leaving the Bundestag, he remained deputy chairman of the G10 commission until 1999. Until recently, he was asked for his opinion on the subject of secret services.

His contribution to the parliamentary enforcement of the Eastern Treaties signed in Moscow and Warsaw in 1970 and to safeguarding them under constitutional and international law remains his most important political and parliamentary contribution and received great attention. On the occasion of the ratification of the treaties in 1972, the rapporteur followed up the legal statements with a personal declaration, which also received a great deal of attention.

The persecuted himself during the time of National Socialism successfully fought for the "Transsexual Law" together with his Bundestag colleague Rolf Meinecke , campaigned for other minority rights in many ways and founded the German section of Amnesty International together with the then WDR journalist Gerd Ruge in 1962 . “Tolerance and justice could hardly have found a more passionate advocate. His actions were always guided by tolerance and justice, ”wrote Egon Bahr about Claus Arndt.

Together with his wife, graphic designer Elke Arndt-Bruhns, and his four children, Arndt lived in Hamburg-Lohbrügge since 1965. In 2015 his wife died too. Both found their final resting place in the Bergedorf cemetery .

swell

  • International Biographical Archive 44/1987 from October 19, 1987 supplemented by Munzinger archive
  • Hannelore Kohl (Chairwoman of the Federal Arbitration Commission of the SPD): An excellent lawyer and amiable person in Vorwärts from February 13, 2014
  • Uwe Rohwedder: Helmut Schmidt and the SDS - The Beginnings of the Socialist Student Union after the Second World War , Edition Temmen Bremen 2007 ISBN 978-3-86108-880-6

Works (excerpt)

  • The concept of the party in organ dispute proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court. Dissertation, Bonn 1959.
  • The Eastern Treaties in Law and Politics. In: Germany Archives (1970).
  • The Moscow and Warsaw Treaties. Political, constitutional and international law aspects. Bonn 1973, ISBN 3-87831-159-1 .
  • Legal and political aspects of the German Ostpolitik. In: Austrian Journal for Foreign Policy. Vienna 1974.
  • Les aspects juridiques et politiques de la 'Ostpolitik' allemande de 1970 à 1976. In: Politique Etrangère. Paris 1976.
  • Claus Arndt (Hrsg.): The § 218 before the Federal Constitutional Court. Documentation on the norm control procedure due to constitutional review of the fifth criminal law reform law (deadline regulation). Heidelberg, Karlsruhe 1979, ISBN 3-8114-1978-1 .
  • The Human Rights. Hamburg 1981 (published by the State Center for Political Education).
  • Office and mandate. Selected speeches and writings. 5 volumes, Baden-Baden 1989–2004.
  • Traces in time. Political and personal memories from half a century. Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0954-1 .
  • Claus Arndt (Ed.): Adolf Arndt on his 90th birthday - Documentation of the festival academy in the Catholic Academy Hamburg. Catholic Academy Hamburg and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , 1995, ISBN 3-86077-367-4 .
  • The handing over of Stasi documents of celebrities. In: NJW . 2004, pp. 3157 to 3159.
  • Limited worthy of defense. Contribution by Claus Arndt (pp. 62 to 67) in Alfred Neven DuMont (Ed.): Year 1926/27. Memories of the years under the swastika. Anthology, DuMont Buchverlag, ISBN 978-3-8321-8059-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : You are the hegemon here . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2013, p. 18 ( online - Ex-Bundestag member Claus Arndt, 86 (SPD), about his previous job as a secret service controller and the Americans' hunger for information).
  2. ↑ Claus Arndt: Traces in Time Political and personal memories from half a century. Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0954-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arndt, Claus Adel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2014
Place of death Hamburg