Franz-Hermann Kappes

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Franz-Hermann Kappes on an election poster

Franz-Hermann Kappes (born November 5, 1938 in Wiesbaden ; † August 24, 1992 in Zeilhard ) was a German politician ( CDU ), and from 1987 until his untimely death in 1992 a member of the German Bundestag .

Life and political career

Franz-Hermann Kappes attended the humanistic grammar school in Dillenburg , studied law and philosophy in Münster and Munich and passed the first state law examination in 1962. In 1965 the doctorate to Dr. jur. , 1966 the great state law examination. Since 1966 he was in the higher administrative service of the federal government (division BMI) and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (state chancellery), most recently Ministerialrat.

From 1977 to 1985 Franz-Hermann Kappes was district administrator for the Darmstadt-Dieburg district and then set up as a lawyer in Darmstadt . Franz-Hermann Kappes joined the CDU in 1962 , and when he ran for the Bundestag for the first time in 1987 , he won the mandate at the first attempt. Since then he has represented the Hessian constituency of Bergstrasse in the German Bundestag. The lawyer’s parliamentary work focused on the Legal Affairs Committee, where he was the last chairman of his parliamentary group . He was a member of the constitutional committee. In addition, his diverse voluntary commitment was in the church and the social area, in the social, especially drug help. In order not to lose the connection to his original profession, he also retained his teaching position as a member of parliament at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer , where he taught public law .

Franz-Hermann Kappes died unexpectedly one day after his silver wedding after a heart attack . He was married and had three children. Since 1958 he was a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt. Saxonia Munster .

Special features in political work

  • As part of the Hessian district reform on January 1, 1977, the two districts of Darmstadt and Dieburg were combined to form today's Darmstadt-Dieburg district. Some places were previously assigned to other districts: Fränkisch-Crumbach came to the district of Odenwald, Ober-Roden and Urberach (city of Rödermark ) and Nieder-Roden (to the city of Rodgau) came to the district of Offenbach. The still district-free Darmstadt became the seat of the district administration, Dieburg remained a branch. Kappes became the first district administrator of the newly created authority and completed the merger, which was then very controversial.
  • In 1984 the Federal Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann ( CSU ) declared that it would make it easier for relatives of foreigners to join the Federal Republic. This decision met with fierce opposition in the state of Hesse . The mayor of Frankfurt and state chairman of the CDU, Walter Wallmann , and the CDU general secretary Manfred Kanther , feared that "Hesse would be sucked in like a sponge by foreigners who would like to emigrate" . Some Hessian Christian Democratic local politicians, above all the district administrator of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, Franz-Hermann Kappes, decided to state disobedience to the incumbent state government. Kappes did not want to violate higher-ranking law , the Wiesbaden government going it alone was unbearable .
  • At the special commitment of Kappes, an agreement was reached on February 12, 1985 on the nationwide introduction of a home emergency call system in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district . The subject of the agreement was that on the basis of the knowledge that the outpatient nursing services should be given priority over inpatient care measures in the care of the elderly, the sick, the disabled and those in need of care, the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg, the German Red Cross - district association Darmstadt-Land - and the German Red Cross - Dieburg district association - agree to introduce a home emergency call system for the Darmstadt-Dieburg district.
  • In the local elections in 1985, the CDU District Administrator Kappes was voted out by a majority of the SPD and the Greens . At that time, the first black-green alliances existed at local level in Hesse - against the will of the CDU leadership. In the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, for example, the blacks and the Greens came together surprisingly , the first joint project was: District Administrator Franz-Hermann Kappes (CDU), who was defeated in the local elections, should remain in office with the help of the Greens. In return, the Christian Democrats have signaled to the eco party that Karl Kerschgens , the negotiating partner of the SPD Prime Minister Holger Börner , will be elected vice district administrator. The Social Democrats victorious in the district should go away empty-handed. Kappes turned down the offer at the time and settled down as a lawyer.
  • Kappes' view of the world became clear in his speech in the German Bundestag at the 113th session on December 1, 1988: “First of all, there have been repeated warnings that the Federal Republic of Germany is not a country of immigration. In fact, however, the figures show that there has been a substantial amount of de facto immigration over the past two decades. Essentially, this cannot be reversed, but it can be excluded for the future. Second, as I think, an important yardstick for the future must remain the right of the German nation to preserve its own typical culture as a matter of priority. " (After an interjection from MP Ellen Olms ( Greens ):" What nonsense! ") - "With all the enrichment, Ms. Olms, from foreign cultures, which I do not deny at all, we should not mindlessly set off into a so-called multicultural society that mixes everything up."

Web links

Commons : Franz-Hermann Kappes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( memento of September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on December 11, 2009
  2. ↑ http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btp/12/12102.pdf accessed on December 11, 2009
  3. ^ President Mustafa . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1984, pp. 108-112 ( online - 10 September 1984 ).
  4. ↑ http://recht.ladadi.de/Darmstadt-Dieburg.14+M55f1e593cd2.0.html accessed on December 11, 2009
  5. ↑ To the troughs . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1985, pp. 97-100 ( Online - Apr. 29, 1985 ).
  6. ↑ http://www.doerrlamm.de/morgenstern/Ppolitik.htm accessed on December 11, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Kappes, Franz-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1992
Place of death Zeilhard