Eberhard von Claer (politician)

This article describes the member of parliament Eberhard von Claer; for the general of the same name (1856–1945) see Eberhard von Claer (General) .

Eberhard von Claer (born June 9, 1923 in Königsberg ; † May 19, 2013) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Claer attended elementary school and later high school and high school in Königsberg, Manenburg, Stolp and Kolberg . The frequent school changes were due to the transfers of his father, who later became Lieutenant General Bernhard von Claer (1888–1953). In 1940 he completed his school education with the so-called maturity certificate and immediately went into military service in the German armed forces until the end of the Second World War . Claer was wounded twice during the war and 90 percent of the time after the war was severely damaged.

After fleeing East Prussia in 1945, he began studying law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Between 1949 and 1954 he passed his legal state examination and was then employed in the financial administration of Lower Saxony between 1954 and 1960. As deputy head of the tax office, he worked at the tax offices in Vechta and Osnabrück (Land) and later moved to the federal administration. Here he was initially active as the head of the administration department in higher command posts in the army and navy. From 1962 to the beginning of 1976 he was head of the district military replacement office in Oldenburg. He then became head of the Oldenburg branch of Defense Division II.

Since 1958 Claer was a member of the CDU and chairman of the Oldenburg regional association of the Union of Expellees and Refugees in the CDU / CSU. He was chairman of the Lower Saxony regional association and the Oldenburg (city) district association of the Association of Expellees . He became a member of the advisory board for displaced persons and refugees at the Federal Minister of the Interior and was active in various voluntary functions in associations.

Between 1964 and 1972 he was a councilor in the city of Oldenburg and entered the Lower Saxony state parliament from October 20, 1976 to June 20, 1978 during the eighth electoral term .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 64.