Günther Metzger

Günther Metzger (born January 23, 1933 in Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse , † August 18, 2013 in Darmstadt ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). From 1969 to 1976 he was a member of the German Bundestag , from 1981 to 1993 Lord Mayor of Darmstadt.

Professional

After graduating from high school, he began studying law, which he completed with both state legal examinations. He then worked for two years as a legal editor at R. Brockhaus Verlag in Wiesbaden . He was admitted to the bar in 1962, set up a law firm in Darmstadt and was also licensed as a notary in 1972.

family

Metzger was the son of the former Lord Mayor of Darmstadt and Hessian State Minister Ludwig Metzger . His daughter-in-law was Dagmar Metzger, a former member of the Hessian state parliament . Jan Metzger , Günther Metzger's son, has been director of Radio Bremen since 2009 .

politics

Metzger had been a member of the SPD since 1956. Since 1964 he was a council member of the Traisa community and a member of the district council of Darmstadt-Dieburg . In the 1969 Bundestag election he was elected to the German Bundestag via the constituency of Darmstadt , to which he belonged until 1976. In 1972/73 he was deputy chairman of the legal committee in parliament and from 1973 to 1976 deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Günther Metzger was a founding member of the Seeheimer Kreis . Metzger served as Lord Mayor of Darmstadt from 1981 to 1993, as did his father from 1945-50. During his tenure, he supported the construction of the New Synagogue and the construction of the new Academy for Music .

Since 2009, Metzger has been representing the Hessian SPD state politician Silke Tesch , who in 2008, together with three other Hessian SPD members of the state parliament, prevented Andrea Ypsilanti from being elected Prime Minister of Hesse in an internal party arbitration. Tesch had argued that the freedom of conscience of members of parliament should not be restricted by party decisions. Therefore, the reasoning of the Arbitration Commission was neither conclusive nor convincing, affirmed Metzger on April 19, 2010, when the Federal Arbitration Commission of the SPD announced its decision (reprimand for Ms. Tesch). For the city of Heppenheim, Metzger became active in 2012 in the matter of the so-called “Suchanek Foundation”, which was supposedly founded in 1993, but in fact never existed as such.

On August 18, Metzger died of a heart attack at the age of 80.

Günther Metzger was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: IA 143c).

Web links

Literature by and about Günther Metzger in the catalog of the German National Library
Patrik Schwarz: pride and pain. The SPD rebel Dagmar Metzger and her father-in-law Günther - a family story, Die Zeit No. 16, p. 2 (from April 10, 2008)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Echo Online : The former Lord Mayor Günther Metzger is dead ( memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 19, 2013
↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, p. D7: Deviants remain in the SPD ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), April 20, 2010.
↑ The Suchanek Foundation does not even exist , Echo Online, June 14, 2012 ( memento from January 11, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 8, 2015)

personal data
SURNAME	Butcher, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Lord Mayor of Darmstadt
DATE OF BIRTH	January 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse
DATE OF DEATH	18th August 2013
Place of death	Darmstadt

[Echo-1] Echo Online : The former Lord Mayor Günther Metzger is dead ( memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), August 19, 2013

[2] Frankfurter Rundschau, p. D7: Deviants remain in the SPD ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), April 20, 2010.

[3] The Suchanek Foundation does not even exist , Echo Online, June 14, 2012 ( memento from January 11, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on January 8, 2015)