Ekkehard Gries
Ekkehard Gries (born September 16, 1936 in Eichenberg ; † July 30, 2001 in Bad Homburg ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school in Göttingen in 1956 , Gries began studying law and political science at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , which he completed in 1961 with the first state examination and in 1965 with the second state examination. He then worked as an assessor for the district president in Kassel . Since 1982 he worked as a lawyer.
Political party
Gries joined the FDP in 1953 , had joined the German Young Democrats (DJD) in the same year and was state chairman of the DJD in Hesse from 1964 to 1968 . From 1971 to 1977 he was first deputy and from 1977 to 1982 state chairman of the FDP Hessen .
MP
Gries was from 1964 to 1966 a member of the city council ( city council ) in the city of Witzenhausen , 1972/73 then city council in the city of Oberursel and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group there. He was elected to the district assembly of the Obertaunuskreis in 1968 and was also chairman of the FDP parliamentary group here in 1985/86. From 1974 to 1976 Gries was a member of the association assembly of the regional planning communities Untermain and of the parliament of the surrounding association Frankfurt / Main . From 1986 until his death he was a district council member of the Hochtaunuskreis . From 1986 to 2001 he was district chairman (although the CDU was by far the strongest party). In the state elections in Hesse in 1978 , he was elected to the Hessian state parliament via the FDP state list , as had already been a candidate in 1974 in the constituency of Hochtaunus I , but resigned his mandate after he was reappointed minister of the interior when the government was reformed .
From 1987 to 1994 Gries was a member of the German Bundestag , where he was the transport policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group. He was drawn into parliament in both election terms via the state list of the FDP Hessen.
Gries was temporarily a member of the board of trustees of the Wolf-Erich-Kellner Memorial Foundation . Documents relating to his work for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
Public offices
Gries was a full-time city councilor in Oberursel from 1966 to 1971. In 1971 he became head of the central department in the Hessian Ministry of Economics as ministerial director. From December 1975 to October 1976 he was State Secretary to the Hessian Minister for Economics and Technology, Heinz-Herbert Karry .
On October 20, 1976, Gries was appointed Minister of State for the Interior in the government of the State of Hesse led by Prime Minister Holger Börner . During his term of office, among other things, the conflict over the expansion of runway 18 West at Frankfurt Airport fell , in which he was responsible for police operations against violent demonstrators as well as against non-violent protesting runway opponents. After Karry's assassination, he was also appointed Deputy Prime Minister on May 12, 1981. Due to the defeat of the FDP in the state elections in 1982 , he resigned from his ministerial office on September 28, 1982.
Honors
In 1995 he became honorary chairman of the FDP Hessen . The former town hall in Oberursel and today's police station is named after him.
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 268–269 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 152-153.
- Ekkehard Gries , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/2001 of October 1, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- Gries, Ekkehard. Hessian biography. (As of September 5, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Hans Venedey (1945–1946) | Heinrich Zinnkann (1946–1954) | Heinrich Schneider (1955–1969) | Johannes Strelitz (1969–1970) | Hanns-Heinz Bielefeld (1970–1976) | Ekkehard Gries (1976-1982) | Horst Winterstein (1984–1987) | Gottfried Milde (1987–1990) | Hartmut Nassauer (1990–1991) | Herbert Günther (1991–1994) | Gerhard Bökel (1994–1999) | Volker Bouffier (1999–2010) | Boris Rhein (2010–2014) | Peter Beuth (since 2014)
Georg Ludwig Fertsch (1946–1947) | August-Martin Euler (1947–1956) | Max Becker (1956-1958) | Oswald Adolph Kohut (1958–1961) | Heinrich Kohl (1962–1967) | Wolfgang Mischnick (1967–1977) | Ekkehard Gries (1977–1982) | Wolfgang Gerhardt (1982–1995) | Ruth Wagner (1995-2006) | Jörg-Uwe Hahn (2006–2014) | Stefan Ruppert (since 2014)
Ludwig Wedge | Kurt Magnus | Friedrich Wilhelm Reuss | Leonhard Lutz | Alfred Härtl | Helmut Schnorr | Ekkehard Gries | Otto Kirst | Otto Schmidt | Bernd Kummer | Otto Kirst | Dieter Posch | Jürgen Wefelmeier | Matthias Kurth | Herbert Hirschler | Bernd Abeln | Klaus-Peter Güttler | Steffen Saebisch | Mathias Samson | Philipp Nimmermann | Jens Deutschendorf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gries, Ekkehard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (FDP), MdL, MdB, Hessian State Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eichenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 2001 |
| Place of death | bad Homburg |