Dorothee Wilms

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Dorothee Wilms (1986)

Dorothee Margarethe Elisabeth Wilms (born October 11, 1929 in Grevenbroich ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

From 1982 to 1987 she was Federal Minister for Education and Science and from 1987 to 1991 the last Federal Minister for intra-German relations .

Family, education and work

Wilms was born in 1929 as the only child of Lorenz Wilms, who was Mayor of Grevenbroich from 1924 to 1945, and Lieselotte Wilms, nee. Schiedges, born. She attended what is now the Erasmus grammar school in Grevenbroich, where she was the only girl of her year to pass the Abitur in 1950. Wilms then began studying economics , social policy and sociology in Cologne , where she was a student of Alfred Müller-Armack . In 1954 she graduated as diploma -Volkswirtin and was in 1956 with the work of the macro- or micro-economic processes in the national economy for Dr. rer. pole. PhD. From 1953 to 1973 she worked as a research assistant for youth issues and vocational training at the Institute of German Economy in Cologne. From 1977 to 1982 she headed the research center for educational and socio-political development. Today Dorothee Wilms lives in Bonn .

Political party

Dorothee Wilms has been a member of the CDU since 1961. From 1974 to 1976 she was deputy federal manager of the CDU. In 1986 she was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia . Furthermore, she was a voluntary member of the board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for about 25 years until 2005 , to which she still belongs and which she temporarily headed after Bernhard Vogel was elected Minister-President of Thuringia in 1992.

MPs

Wilms was a member of the council of her hometown Grevenbroich from 1967 to 1973. From 1976 to 1994 she was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1980 to 1982 she was parliamentary manager of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and, after her time as minister, chairwoman of the commission of inquiry dealing with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany .

Public offices

After the vote of no confidence and the associated change of government, Wilms was appointed to the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl as Federal Minister for Education and Science on October 4, 1982 . After the federal elections in 1987 , she took over the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations on March 12, 1987. After the German reunification , this ministry was dissolved, so that it left the federal government on January 18, 1991 . From 1992 to 2011 she was honorary chairman of the board of trustees of the public law foundation Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf and from 2000 to 2004 chairwoman of the Association of Former Members of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament.

She is a member of the Commission for Contemporary History and the Central Committee of German Catholics .

Awards

Cabinets

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorothee Wilms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dorothee Wilms - biography. Website of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christina Fassbender: City hall stories. In: StattBlatt. 121st edition, December 2015, 11th volume, p. 11. - StattBlatt Verlag , Grevenbroich
  3. ↑ a b c Wiljo Piel: RP-Online - She was the last Federal Minister for intra-German relations , accessed on October 12, 2019
  4. ↑ a b General-Anzeiger Bonn - The former minister turns 90 - Interview with Dorothee Wilms , accessed on October 12, 2019
  5. ↑ Prime Minister Laschet awards nine citizens the Order of Merit of the State. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, December 15, 2018, accessed December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilms, Dorothee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilms, Dorothee Margarethe Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevenbroich