Günter-Helge Strickstrack

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Günter-Helge Strickstrack (born May 28, 1921 in Wieda ; † July 20, 2020 in Hanover ) was a German politician and founding member of the CDU .

Life

Günter-Helge Strickstrack was born in Wieda and grew up in Gittelde and Lauingen near Königslutter. He attended the Martino-Katharineum grammar school in Braunschweig and was then a soldier in the Air Force from 1938 to 1945 . First as a glider pilot and during the Second World War as a pilot and squadron commander in Sturzkampfgeschwader Stukas Ju 87 . He was trained at the Fürstenfeldbrück Air War School.

In June 1945, Strickstrack publicly contradicted a speaker at an event organized by SPD politician Kurt Schumacher when he called the Wehrmacht soldiers war criminals. The fact that the speaker had put the Wehrmacht soldiers "wrongly in line with war criminals" was what he cited throughout his life as a reason for not joining the SPD. When the historian Teresa Nentwig discovered the role of Lower Saxony's first Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf within the Nazi regime in 2013 , Strickstrack did not want to criticize him and said: "History should be history and leave your head alone".

Strickstrack was both a co-founder of the CDU in Braunschweig in 1945 and a member of the founding party conference of the Federal CDU on November 21, 1950 in Goslar . He was chairman of the Junge Union in Braunschweig and Lower Saxony and from 1948 to 1950 personal advisor to the Lower Saxony Minister for Economics and Transport, Otto Fricke . Strickstrack was a member of the 15th and 16th Federal Assemblies for the election of the Federal President . He was the oldest member of the 16th Federal Assembly.

Strickstrack and Heinz Schwarz are the only people who took part in all party conventions of the CDU from its foundation up to Strickstrack's death. As a result, he was a regular interviewee when it came to party's development. In 2019 he said that the CDU had moved a little too much into the middle in recent years.

Strickstrack was a textile entrepreneur by profession and retired in 1982. He was married and the father of four children, one of whom died as a toddler.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter-Helge Strickstrack: A founder of the CDU is dead. In: Neue Presse , July 21, 2020. Accessed on July 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Anne Marx: Celler type: obstetrician of the CDU a sought-after man. Cellesche Zeitung, October 19, 2010, archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c He once led Adenauer through the city. Hannoversche Allgemeine, January 5, 2017, archived from the original on June 30, 2020 ; accessed on June 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ CDU co-founder: "Merkel a gift from God". Merkur.de, archived from the original on June 30, 2020 ; accessed on June 30, 2020 .
  5. ^ The brown vita of Lower Saxony's first prime minister. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 11, 2013, archived from the original on July 3, 2020 ; accessed on July 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Wathlinger Bote, November 28, 2015/49, p. 15 [1]
  7. ^ Günter-Helge Strickstrack eldest elector at the Federal Assembly. CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament - press office, March 17, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2020 ; accessed on June 30, 2020 .
  8. ^ Ordinary members of the 15th Federal Assembly. (PDF) German Bundestag, p. 8 , archived from the original on July 2, 2020 ; accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 16th Federal Assembly on February 12, 2017 Directory of Members. (PDF) German Bundestag, p. 33 , archived from the original on June 18, 2020 ; accessed on June 30, 2020 .
  10. ^ Composition of the 2017 Federal Assembly. Kürschner's Political Contacts, February 9, 2017, archived from the original on July 2, 2020 ; accessed on July 2, 2020 .
  11. ^ All party conventions since 1950. In: cdu.de. June 22, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  12. ^ Günter-Helge Strickstrack: What the CDU co-founder thinks of Angela Merkel - WELT. In: amp.welt.de. December 7, 2016, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ FOCUS Online: CDU founder Strickstrack on Merkel: I think it's better than Kohl - Video. December 8, 2016, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Why conservative members in the CDU feel alien. In: haz.de. August 29, 2019, accessed July 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Strickstrack, Günter-Helge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and founding member of the party
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Again
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2020
Place of death Hanover