Friedel Läpple

Friedel Läpple (born June 20, 1938 in Schiffweiler ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

education and profession

After completing school, Läpple attended a teachers' seminar and then studied at the PH Saarbrücken and the University of Tübingen . He then worked as a special school teacher and as head of a special school in the St. Wendel district . Less known, however, is his work as a speech therapist, which he continued to practice alongside his political activities.

politics

The SPD member belonged to the state parliament of Saarland from the sixth to the eleventh legislative period (1970-1999). As chairman of the parliamentary group (1973–1985), head of the Saarland SPD (1970–1977) and member of the SPD federal executive committee (1973–1979), Läpple was the top candidate of his party in the state elections in 1975 ; Despite a majority of votes, the opposition parties SPD and FDP / DPS could not achieve an absolute majority of the seats.

After the change of government in 1985 he became Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Oskar Lafontaine . He held this office until 1999, making him Germany's longest-serving interior minister to date.

His books Profit Through Disease and Health Without Exploitation , which dealt with the possibilities of reforming the health system, caused a stir in the medical profession in the late 1970s.

See also Cabinet Lafontaine I , Cabinet Lafontaine II , Cabinet Lafontaine III , Cabinet Klimmt

Honors

• 1985: Saarland Order of Merit
• 2009: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• Profit from Illness? Health care from the employee's perspective. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1975. ISBN 3-87831-200-8 .
• Health without exploitation. An alternative to the current health system. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1977. ISBN 3-87831-238-5 .
• Moments of happiness: an autobiography . Röhrig Verlag, St. Ingbert 2009, ISBN 978-3-86110-472-8

literature

• Franz-Rudolph Kronenberger, Herbert Mandelartz, Bernd Rauls (eds.): Friedel Läpple, politician, Saarlander, democrat. 15 years Minister of the Interior in Saarland. A commemorative publication. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1999. ISBN 3-86110-229-3 .
• Friedel Läpple: Moments of happiness. An autobiography. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverl., 2009. 549 p., Numerous. Fig.ISBN 978-3-86110-472-8

Web links

• Literature on Friedel Läpple in the Saarland Bibliography
• Literature by and about Friedel Läpple in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 13 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken March 21, 1985, p. 346 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 208 kB ; accessed on May 31, 2017]).