Ekkehard Voigt
Ekkehard Voigt (born November 5, 1939 in Hälse , Koenigsberg Nm. (Today Porzecze near Boleszkowice in Poland ); † September 25, 2018 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) was a German politician ( CSU , REP ).
Life
After graduating from high school in 1961, Voigt joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate . He was a member of the Feldjäger troop and served as leader of a military police command, lecture hall manager, inspection chief of a non-commissioned officer training inspection, company commander and staff officer for organizational issues. Most recently, the professional soldier held the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1988 he wrote the book Verrat an Deutschland? - The Union parties and German unity . Ekkehard Voigt lived in Sonthofen , he was married and the father of four children.
politics
After having been a member of the CSU for many years, Voigt founded the Republican Party (REP) in November 1983 together with Franz Handlos and the journalist and later long-term federal chairman Franz Schönhuber . The annoyance over the billion dollar loan that the then CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss had brokered to the GDR played an important role in the establishment of the new party . After a year Voigt resigned from the party.
MP
Voigt stood on December 8, 1978 for the resigned MP Peter Schmidhuber in the German Bundestag . He was then a member of the German Bundestag until 1980 . On May 14, 1982, he replaced the resigned MP Paul Röhner and was a member of the Bundestag until 1987.
On October 28, 1983 Voigt resigned from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and was a non-attached member of the Bundestag until the end of the 10th electoral term .
Ekkehard Voigt has always entered the Bundestag via the Bavarian State List . Voigt was state chairman of the defense policy working group of the CSU and a member of the state board of the CSU. Honorary chairman of the WPA Oberallgäu. During the years of his membership in the REP, Voigt appeared in the Bundestag seven times. He and Handlos, who had also converted from the CSU together with him, mainly dealt with Ostpolitik - where they criticized the German government’s too lax attitude towards the GDR - and later criticized the other parties in the Flick affair , especially CDU and CSU.
Club activities and honors
Voigt was the founder of the “Bürgerinitiative Notarztwagen Oberallgäu”. Chairman of the ice and roller skating club Sonthofen, district chairman of the Europa-Union Oberallgäu, in the church (private Uganda help) and in the hunting area (district chairman and nature conservation officer). He was a member of the city council in Sonthofen for 18 years. In 2001 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Voigt was monitored by the Stasi , as evidenced by the intelligence cards from the headquarters .
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 903.
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office : The candidates for election to the 9th German Bundestag 1980 , p. 135
- ^ Mourning for Ekkehard Voigt . In: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt, September 28, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voigt, Ekkehard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU, REP), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Necks , District of Königsberg Nm. , today Porzecze near Boleszkowice , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 25th September 2018 |
| Place of death | Kempten (Allgäu) |