Diether Deneke

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Diether Deneke (born October 27, 1918 in Berlin ; † April 16, 2002 in Bad Honnef ) was a German conservationist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

Memorial plaque in the wine-growing area of ​​Oberdollendorf

Diether Deneke was born in Berlin as the son of the later archive and museum director Günther Deneke . His brother is the journalist, sociologist and politician Volrad Deneke . After attending elementary school in Wernigerode and completing upper secondary school in 1934 at a Berlin grammar school, he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam , which he completed with the assistant test. From 1937 to 1939 he worked as a gardener's assistant in horticultural and agricultural businesses in the Altmark , Magdeburg and Leipzig . In 1939 he passed his Abitur as an external student. A year later he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , took part in World War II as a soldier , was a. a. stationed in Naples and Africa and was most recently appointed first lieutenant in the reserve. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner.

After his release from captivity, Deneke initially worked as a gardener. He had been employed in the administration of the United Economic Area since July 1947 , later moved to the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry , where he had been chairman of the staff council since 1956. In 1966 he resigned as a government director from the administrative service. Deneke joined the Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union (GGLF) in 1949 , was elected to its main board in 1964 and was temporarily chairman of the GGLF district of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 1972 he has also acted as the spokesman for the garden and landscape maintenance group.

Deneke's name is primarily associated with landscape and nature conservation. From 1981 to 1991 he was the NRW state chairman of the German Forest Protection Association , which made him an honorary member in October 1993. In 1982 he became president of the Association of German Nature Parks in Hamburg . In addition, he worked as state chairman of the BUND in North Rhine-Westphalia and as president of the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation for Nature Conservation, Homeland and Cultural Care . The renovation of Drachenburg Castle goes back to his initiative. Through land consolidations initiated by him on the Drachenfels and on the Dollendorfer Hardt , the continued existence of viticulture in Königswinter could be secured. He also promoted the amalgamation of nature conservation and local history associations in the State Association for Nature Conservation and Environment North Rhine-Westphalia (LNU), which operates as an umbrella organization.

Diether Deneke was married and had two daughters. He last lived in Königswinter and died on April 16, 2002 in Bad Honnef.

Political party

Deneke joined the SPD in 1949 and had been a member of the Agricultural Policy Committee of the party executive since 1956. He was also chairman of the agricultural and green policy working group of the state executive committee of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia.

MP

From 1957 to 1961, Deneke was a council member of the Oberkassel community . From 1960 to 1966 he was a district council member of the Siegkreis and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. He was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from November 13, 1961 to 1962 and re-elected from 1970 to 1985. He was always drawn into parliament via the state list.

Public offices

On December 8, 1966, Deneke was appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the government of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Heinz Kühn and since September 20, 1978 was also a member of the subsequent government led by Prime Minister Johannes Rau . During his tenure, the State Forest Act (1969), the State Fisheries Act (1972), the Landscape Act (1975) and the State Water Act (1978) were passed. He resigned from his post on May 3, 1979 in protest against the planned, but later not realized, construction of the A4 federal motorway through the Rothaargebirge .

Honors

See also

Web links

Commons : Diether Deneke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
  2. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Honorary doctorates from the Agricultural Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.Retrieved on September 25, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Deneke, Diether
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conservationist and politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2002
Place of death Bad Honnef