Egbert Möcklinghoff

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Egbert Möcklinghoff (1979)

Egbert Möcklinghoff (born July 17, 1924 in Münster ; † September 18, 2017 ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( CDU ).

Life

Möcklinghoff was the son of the dentist Oskar Möcklinghoff and his wife Elisabeth. After graduating from high school in Münster in 1942, he studied law and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University there , with interruptions due to his participation in the Second World War . During his studies he joined the Catholic student association VKDSt in 1946 . Saxonia Münster . He passed the first state examination in 1948 and the second state examination in 1951, and then joined a law firm in Münster as an assessor.

Möcklinghoff was named Dr. jur . doctorate, worked from 1952 to 1954 as a consultant in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia and was appointed to the government council in 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he worked as a legal counsel for the city of Münster. He was also a member of the main and constitutional committee of the North Rhine-Westphalia local authority association in Recklinghausen and the board of the North Rhine-Westphalia district council in Düsseldorf .

Möcklinghoff has been volunteering for the German Red Cross since 1958 . From 1978 to 1995 he was elected president of the DRK -Landesverband Westfalen-Lippe and held numerous honorary positions there, such as chairing the DRK sisterhood Westphalia as well as chairing the supervisory board of the DRK blood donation services in North Rhine-Westphalia and chairing the blood donation committee.

Egbert Möcklinghoff was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1967 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the papal lay order on April 29, 1967 in Münster by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

The grave of Egbert Möcklinghoff in the Münster Central Cemetery.

politics

Candidate poster for the state election in Lower Saxony in 1986

Möcklinghoff was an alderman for the city of Münster from 1956 to 1959 and headed the social and economic department there. From 1959 to 1973 he was Oberkreisdirektor of the district (from 1969 district) Lüdinghausen and served from March 1, 1973 to June 27, 1978 as district president in Münster . From 1961 to 1964 he was a member of the Landscape Assembly Westphalia-Lippe . In 1966 he was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, to which he was a member until his resignation on March 13, 1973.

After the Lower Saxony state election in 1978 Möcklinghoff was on 28 June 1978 as the Lower Saxony Interior Minister in the Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht called run state government. From June 22nd to September 22nd, 1982 he also took over the provisional management of the Ministry of Culture. During Möcklinghoff's tenure as Minister of the Interior, among other things, the first disputes with the anti-nuclear power movement over the Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility and the alleged bomb attack on the Celle prison , the true background of which only became public in 1986. On July 9, 1986, he resigned from the state government.

MP

From July 24, 1966 to February 28, 1973 member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1982 to 1986 Möcklinghoff was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the constituency of Hameln .

honors and awards

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Egbert Möcklinghoff Westfälische Nachrichten , September 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Dr. Egbert Möcklinghoff turns 90: Great volunteer work for the DRK . Westfälische Nachrichten , July 17, 2014, accessed on September 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
predecessor Office successor
Josef Schneeberger District President of the Münster administrative district in Westphalia
1973–1978 		Erwin Schleberger
personal data
SURNAME Möcklinghoff, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, civil servant and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2017