Günther Jansen (politician, 1936)

Günther Jansen as a speaker at a demonstration by the German Federation of Trade Unions on Kiel Town Hall Square (1986)

Günther Jansen (* 14. July 1936 in Eutin ) is a German politician of the SPD .

Jansen was Minister of Social Affairs from 1988 to 1993 and from 1992 to 1993 also Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein .

education and profession

Jansen left the grammar school prematurely with the secondary school leaving certificate and then completed training in administration , which he finished with the administrative examination for the senior service . He then worked as a bailiff in the administration of the Eutin district until 1969 . From 1970 he was the full-time mayor of the community of Süsel .

Political activity

Günther Jansen has been a member of the SPD since 1959. Here he was initially involved with the Jusos , whose Schleswig-Holstein state chairman he was from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 to 1975 he was deputy state chairman and from 1975 to 1987 finally state chairman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein .

Günther Jansen was a member of the German Bundestag from 1980 until his departure on June 16, 1988 . In 1980 he was a directly elected member of the Ostholstein constituency and then always entered the Bundestag via the Schleswig-Holstein state list.

On May 31, 1988 he was appointed minister for social affairs, health and energy in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein led by Prime Minister Björn Engholm . After the state elections in 1992, he took over the management of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Youth, Health and Energy on May 5, 1992, and was also appointed Deputy Prime Minister.

On March 23, 1993, Jansen resigned from his ministerial office after untruths in connection with the Barschel affair became known. Jansen had also sent the former media officer at the State Chancellery, Reiner Pfeiffer, a total of between 40,000 and 50,000 DM in two tranches - there are contradicting information about the amount - in cash through the SPD press spokesman at the time, Klaus Nilius . Pfeiffer was significantly involved in the Barschel affair, and he had thereby contributed to the overthrow of the Prime Minister Uwe Barschel ( CDU ). Jansen stated that he had collected the money in his kitchen drawer out of sympathy for the now unemployed Pfeiffer. That is why this matter was called the drawer affair , as a result of which Björn Engholm resigned as Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein and as party chairman and candidate for chancellor of the SPD.

Honors

In 2004, Jansen was recognized by the then Prime Minister Heide Simonis for "his outstanding civic engagement [...], in particular his commitment as honorary chairman of the transitional board of the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital", where he laid the foundations for the integration of the "two university locations Kiel and Lübeck into a joint company ”, awarded the honorary professorship of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Family and private

Günther Jansen is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt , Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): The new Schleswig-Holstein Lexicon. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, Lemma Sozialdemokratie, here p. 552.
2. ↑ Honorary title "Professor" to Günther Jansen: Simonis recognizes commitment to the Schleswig-Holstein University Medical Center . In: schleswig-holstein.de . March 16, 2004. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved on December 20, 2014.