Erwin Lang (politician)
Erwin Lang (born March 14, 1924 in Bad Nauheim ; † February 29, 2020 ) was a German educator and politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
After attending primary school, Lang participated in World War II as a soldier from 1942 to 1945 . He passed the Abitur and then took up studies in mathematics, physics, law and political science, sociology, comparative cultural studies and political science in Darmstadt , Frankfurt am Main and Mainz , which he completed with a doctorate to become Dr. phil. finished. From 1946 to 1955 (at the same time as his studies) he worked in the Hessian school service. Most recently he was employed as a middle school teacher in Frankfurt am Main from 1951 to 1955.
Erwin Lang married Martha, née Wolf, in 1944 and has one daughter.
Political party
Lang was a member of the SPD.
MP
Lang had been a member of the Groß-Gerau district council since 1956, where he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1964 to 1968 and chairman of the district council from 1968. On April 3, 1964, he moved to the Hessian state parliament for his late party friend Wilhelm Arnoul , where he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from January 1967 to October 1969 and chairman of the budget committee from 1974 to 1982. 1978 to August 1983 he was deputy chairman of the subcommittee on state budget accounting. From 1976 to 1978 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Lang served as President of the Hessian State Parliament from October 13, 1983 to April 23, 1987 and was then one of the Vice-Presidents of Parliament. On July 31, 1988, he resigned from the state parliament due to the affair surrounding the parliamentary increases in diets . Lang has always been elected in the Groß-Gerau II constituency since the state elections in 1966 .
He was a member of the 6th and 8th Federal Assemblies .
Public offices
Lang was mayor of the city of Raunheim from 1955 to 1969 . From October 22, 1969 to December 16, 1970, he was the Hessian State Minister of Finance in the state government led by Prime Minister Albert Osswald .
Honors
- 1973: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1978: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1982: Great Cross of Merit
- 1985: Large Cross of Merit with Star
literature
- Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 478.
- 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 ( 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 , p. 233.
- Erwin Lang , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1989 of July 17, 1989, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Obituary for the death of the former President of the Hessian Parliament, Dr. phil. Erwin Lang
- Lang, Erwin. Hessian biography. (As of March 2, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 85, May 8, 1973.
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.
Wilhelm Mattes (Greater Hesse, 1945–1946) | Robert Philipp Nöll von der Nahmer (Greater Hesse, 1946) | Werner Hilpert (1947–1951) | Heinrich Troeger (1951–1956) | Wilhelm Conrad (1956–1964) | Albert Osswald (1964–1969) | Erwin Lang (1969–1970) | Rudi Arndt (1970–1972) | Heribert Reitz (1972–1984) | Hans Krollmann (1984–1987) | Manfred Kanther (1987–1991) | Annette Fugmann-Heesing (1991–1994) | Ernst Welteke (1994–1995) | Karl Starzacher (1995–1999) | Karlheinz Weimar (1999–2010) | Thomas Schäfer ( 2010–2020) | Michael Boddenberg (since 2020)
Rudolf Freidhof (1946–1947) | Albert Wagner (1947–1949) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1949–1953) | Heinrich Schneider (1953–1955) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1955–1958) | Georg Buch (1958–1960) | Willi Zinnkann (1960–1961) | Rudi Arndt (1961–1964) | Johannes Strelitz (1964–1967) | Erwin Lang (1967–1969) | Werner Best (1969–1970) | Heribert Reitz (1970–1972) | Hans Krollmann (1972–1973) | Willi Görlach (1973–1974) | Armin Clauss (1974-1976) | Karl Schneider (1976–1980) | Horst Winterstein (1980–1984) | Ernst Welteke (1984–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1988) | Ernst Welteke (1988–1991) | Lothar Klemm (1991–1994) | Armin Clauss (1994-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Jürgen Walter (2003–2007) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2007-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lang, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and politician (SPD), Hessian Minister of State |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Nauheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 2020 |