Frank Dahrendorf

Frank Dahrendorf around 1980

Frank Herbert Dahrendorf (* 26. May 1934 in Berlin , † 4. June 2013 ) was a German lawyer and SPD - politician .

Life

The son of the former SPD Reichstag MP Gustav Dahrendorf and brother of Ralf Dahrendorf studied law in Hamburg , Munich and Frankfurt am Main from 1953 . During his studies Dahrendorf was a member of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS), AStA chairman in Hamburg and in 1956/57 served as 2nd chairman of the Association of German Student Unions (VDS).

Gravestone Dahrendorf , Ohlsdorf cemetery

After the first (January 13, 1959) and second (February 7, 1963) state law exams , Dahrendorf settled as a lawyer in Hamburg. From 1970 to 1978 he was State Councilor ( State Secretary ) in Hamburg, first in the interior and later in the school authority. Appointed Justice Senator in Hamburg in 1978, he had to resign on September 26, 1979 due to the Stoltzenberg scandal .

In January 1981 Dahrendorf was appointed Senator for the Interior by Berlin's new Governing Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel . He resigned from this office when the social-liberal coalition lost its majority in the election for the Berlin House of Representatives on May 10, 1981 , and a new Senate under Richard von Weizsäcker (CDU) was elected on June 11, 1981 ; at the same time Dahrendorf renounced the recently acquired mandate in the House of Representatives .

Dahrendorf then worked again as a lawyer in Hamburg. At that time, his functions within the SPD included chairing the local association Barmbek - Uhlenhorst - Hohenfelde in the SPD district of Hamburg-Nord . In 1982 he was elected as a member of the Hamburg parliament. There he worked mainly in the committees for the constitution, rules of procedure and election examinations , port and economy and property and public companies .

In 1991 he became a member of the board of the Association of Consumer Cooperatives in Berlin (until 1994). From 1992 to 2009 he was also deputy chairman of the media council of Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb).

Frank Dahrendorf was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Y 12 (south of Norderstrasse ).

Senate memberships

• Senate Klose II , Hamburg, Justice Senator, 1978–1979
• Senate Vogel , Berlin, Senator for the Interior, 1981

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. 114 f.
• Hinnerk Fock (editor): Handbuch der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft 11th electoral period , pp. 99–100 and 42, 44 and 53.

Web links

Commons : Frank Dahrendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• http://www.mabb.de/content/haben/frank_dahrendorf.cfm ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://trauer.tagesspiegel.de/files/pdf/20130616/20130616__22568732_1.pdf
2. ↑ POISON GAS AFFAIR: Explosive parts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1979, pp. 24-26 ( Online - Oct. 1, 1979 ).
3. ↑ dpa: The almost forgotten poison - 25 years of the Stoltzenberg scandal. In: welt.de . September 2, 2004, accessed May 14, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.