Günther Schacht

Günther Schacht, former Minister D.

Günther Schacht (born July 16, 1929 in Bottrop ; † November 14, 2012 in Saarbrücken ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After completing secondary school, Günther Schacht completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk from 1947 to 1950 and then worked as a commercial clerk at Rheinstahl Bergbau AG in Bottrop. From 1956 to 1958 he attended the social seminar of the dioceses of Münster and Essen , completed further training at the Dortmund Social Academy in 1960/61 and had been a trade union secretary at IG Bergbau und Energie in Bochum since 1962 . Schacht was transferred to Saarland in 1966 as an employee secretary and acted from 1966 to 1974 as deputy chairman of the IGBE district association Saar. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bergbau-Berufsgenossenschaft (BBG), deputy chairman of the Saarland Chamber of Labor , chairman of the supervisory board of Bergbau-AG Lothringen and a member of the supervisory board of the Eschweiler mining association . In the 1980s and 1990s he was a member of the supervisory board of Saarbergwerke AG . Günther Schacht was married to Regina Schacht, née Volkmer. The couple had seven children, including the politician Ulrich Schacht , Christoph, Gudrun, Michael, Doris, Martin and Markus.

Political party

Schacht had been a member of the CDU since 1953. He joined the Junge Union (JU), was chairman of the JU district association Bottrop and a member of the JU federal board. In 1971 he was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU Saar . At times he was deputy state chairman of the Saarland Christian Democrats. He also acted as regional chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) Saar, was a member of the CDA federal board and honorary chairman of the CDA Saar. From 1990 to 2008 he was also state chairman of the Seniors' Union (SU) Saar and a member of the SU federal board.

MP

Before 1966, Schacht was a councilor for the city of Bottrop. In 1970 he was elected to the Saarland state parliament, to which he was a member until 1990. Here he was from 1984 to 1985 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

Public offices

Schacht was appointed to the Saarland government led by Prime Minister Franz-Josef Röder on January 23, 1974 , where he took over the management of the newly formed Ministry for the Environment, Regional Planning and Construction. Since July 5, 1979, he has also been a member of the subsequent government headed by Prime Minister Werner Zeyer . In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he left the state government on July 10, 1984 and was replaced in his ministerial office by Berthold Budell .

Schacht was president of 1. FC Saarbrücken from 1992 to 1993 .

Honors

On January 7, 1991, Schacht was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit.

See also

• Cabinet Röder V - Cabinet Röder VI - Cabinet Zeyer I - Cabinet Zeyer II

Web links

• Christine Frick: Günther Schacht. on Saarland biographies
• Short biography at the CDU Saar ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ CDU Saar mourns Günther Schacht. Press release. (No longer available online.) CDU LV Saar, November 14, 2012, archived from the original on January 28, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Günther Schacht is dead - He was Saarland's first Environment Minister ( Memento from May 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ We mourn Günther Schacht. Press release. (No longer available online.) 1. FC Saarbrücken , November 14, 2012, archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 9, 2016 . 
4. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 5 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 24, 1991, p. 103 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 423 kB ; accessed on June 4, 2017]).