Dieter Klink

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Portrait of Dieter Klink, ca.1990

Dieter Klink (born November 11, 1930 in Peiskretscham , Upper Silesia Province , † January 10, 2004 in Bremen ) was a German economist , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ). He belonged to the Bremen Citizenship , the state parliament of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , continuously from 1959 to 1995, and was its president from 1971 to 1995.

Life

Dieter Klink was the son of a savings bank director and the brother of the later head of the Bremen University of Education , Professor Dr. Job Günter Klink . He grew up in Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia, and attended high school in Katowice . Towards the end of the Second World War , the family fled first to Hirschberg in Silesia in 1945 and then to Riede in the Lower Saxony district of Verden in 1946 . Eventually the family settled in Bremen, where Klink attended high school on Leibnizplatz . He graduated from high school and then studied economics in Wilhelmshaven , Innsbruck and Hamburg as well as in the United States and France . Klink completed testing a degree in economics, received his doctorate under Professor Karl Schiller at the University of Hamburg for Dr. rer. pole. and entered the administrative service in Bremen in 1956. There he worked temporarily for the Senator for Economics and Foreign Trade, most recently as a government director. After his time as a politician, he was a lecturer at the German Foreign Trade and Transport Academy (DAV) in Bremen from 1995 to 1999 .

Dieter Klink was married and had two children. He died in 2004 at the age of 73.

politics

Klink joined the SPD in 1951 and the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV) in 1952 . From 1958 to 1961 he was chairman of the local SPD association Neue Vahr and from 1961 to 1970 chairman of the local SPD association Neue Vahr Süd. In 1959 he was elected to the Bremen Citizenship , to which he belonged until 1995. From 1967 to 1971 he was Vice President of the Bremen Citizenship. On November 10, 1971, he was elected President of the Bremen Parliament as the successor to Hermann Engel (SPD). He held this office until June 7, 1995, making him the longest-serving president of a German parliament. He was followed by Reinhard Metz (CDU) to the office.

In addition to his parliamentary work, he held various honorary offices, including as state chairman of the Europa-Union Bremen and as chairman of Wilhelm Kaisen Bürgerhilfe . Because of its closeness to the citizens and its social commitment, Klink enjoyed a high reputation in Bremen.

Honors

  • In 2005 the Dieter-Klink-Platz in Bremen- Mitte near the House of Citizenship was named after him. The Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen posthumously honored him as "Citizen President".

Fonts

  • Dieter Klink: From anti-capitalism to a socialist market economy. The development of the regulatory conception of the SPD from Erfurt (1891) to Bad Godesberg (1959) (=  publications of the Academy for Economics and Politics, Hamburg ). JHW Dietz descendants, Hanover 1965.

literature

  • Jürgen Fränzel: The mayor. Dieter Klink - a résumé in interviews and reports. Donat Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-924444-91-9 .
  • Ingeborg Strauch: Klink, Klank, Gloria: Dieter is no longer there! Dr. Dieter Klink on his last day as President of the Bremen Citizenship on June 7, 1995. Administration of the Bremen Citizenship, Bremen 1995.

Web links

Commons : Dieter Klink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Senate decides on Dieter-Klink-Platz . Press release from the press office of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen on April 12, 2005; Retrieved November 11, 2011.


personal data
SURNAME Klink, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, civil servant and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Peiskretscham , Province of Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2004
Place of death Bremen