Ekkehard Wruck

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1998 election poster

Ekkehard Wruck (born October 12, 1942 in Berlin ; † June 4, 2003 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Ekkehard Wruck grew up in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . After graduating from high school in 1963, he studied history and law at the Free University of Berlin , Tübingen , Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg , where he also passed his first state examination in law. He then worked from 1969 to 1973 as an assistant in the law department of the Free University of Berlin. In 1970 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. in Hamburg, 1973 the second state examination in Berlin. Since then he has worked as a lawyer and notary. From 1979 to 2001 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . Ekkehard Wruck died of bladder cancer and was buried in the Berlin cemetery in Ruhleben .

politics

Wruck joined the CDU in 1971 and became district chairman in the Wilmersdorf district in 1979 . In 1979 he moved into the Berlin House of Representatives , to which he belonged until 2001. In the course of his 28-year CDU membership, Wruck changed from a left-wing liberal to a conservative. Since 1996 at the latest, he has been considered the CDU's enfant terrible , when, on the occasion of the referendum on the merger of the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, with the motto “For a Christian Prussia” , he pleaded for a common state name Prussia .

In 1998 he provoked a scandal in the Legal Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives when he disregarded the ban on smoking in the House of Representatives during a debate on the smoking ban at airports and instead went to the chairman of the meeting Norbert Schellberg (Greens) and put his lit cigarette on the table in front of him.

In 1998 he ran for the Bundestag in the constituency of Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , but was defeated by his opponent Siegrun Klemmer (SPD).

In 1999 he led an election campaign with biblical quotations on the election posters (“The root carries you”), but the CDU leadership pasted them over. Wruck then had the old election posters put up again and shortly before the election date distributed another poster with the Old Testament inscription: “Oh country, hear the word of the Lord.” But he was still able to win the constituency as a direct candidate with 52.7 percent of the votes. He then resigned from the party in 1999. He made a name for himself when he declared his withdrawal from the party with a quotation from the Bible and was not found for weeks afterwards. From January 2000 until the early election of the House of Representatives on October 21, 2001 , he was a non-attached member of the House of Representatives.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 401.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekkehard Wruck is dead . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 7, 2003
  2. ^ Diepgen: Wruck should resign from his mandate . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 23, 1999
  3. ↑ CDU politician Wruck receives a call to order. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 1998
  4. ↑ Schmidt-Salomon IR 1/2001
  5. ^ The futile search for Ekkehard Wruck . In: Die Welt , December 16, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Wruck, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2003
Place of death Berlin