Frieder Birzele

Frieder Birzele (* 17th January 1940 in Göppingen ) is a German politician of the SPD . Until 2006 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . From 1992 to 1996 he was Minister of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg . He is married and has two children.

education and profession

Birzele passed the Abitur in 1959 and studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin from 1960 to 1965 . He passed his state exams in 1965 and 1969. From 1969 he worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen, where he had worked at the criminological institute since 1967. From 1974 Birzele worked for the Tübingen regional council before founding his own law firm in 1976.

Political activity

Since 1963, Birzele became politically active when she joined the SPD. He was a member of several associations, among other things he was involved in the establishment of the social democratic community for local politics. In the 1970s he was also active in the Education and Science Union (GEW) and the Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV) .

In 1976 Birzele was elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg as a member of the constituency of Göppingen , to which he belonged continuously until 2006. From 1980 to 1992 he was deputy chairman of his group. In 1991 he became known to a wider public when he took over the chairmanship of the committee of inquiry that the state parliament had set up to investigate the dream ship affair of the resigned Prime Minister Lothar Späth (CDU).

After the state elections in 1992, Baden-Württemberg was ruled by a grand coalition under Prime Minister Erwin Teufel (CDU), in whose cabinet Birzele joined as Minister of the Interior. After the state elections in 1996, the grand coalition was replaced by a CDU / FDP coalition. Birzele therefore had to give up his ministerial office in favor of his CDU successor Thomas Schäuble . On June 11, 1996 Birzele was elected First Deputy President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg.

Honorary positions

From 1994 to 2013 Birzele was chairman of the Adult Education Association of Baden-Württemberg and in this function a member of the SWR Broadcasting Council . There he was first deputy chairman of the broadcasting council.

Honors

• 1980: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1987: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1994: Senator Lothar Danner Medal
• 1999: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2006: Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Kuhn new VHS chairman . Online on Swp.de from July 5, 2013.
2. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 52 , accessed on June 12, 2019 . 

Web links

• Image ( Memento from June 9, 2001 in the Internet Archive )