Günther Tietjen

Günther Tietjen (* 9. November 1943 in Heisfelde , Leer district , † 7 July 1993 in Leer ) was a German politician of the SPD . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1974 to 1976 and again from 1980 until his death .

Life

After attending primary school, Tietjen first completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman. In 1961 he joined the police service of the state of Lower Saxony and from 1966 he worked as a detective. He volunteered in the police and workers' welfare union . At times he was the patron of the Leer district group of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society .

Tietjen joined the SPD in 1967. From 1972 he was chairman of the SPD local association Heisfelde-Nüttermoor, from 1974 chairman of the SPD sub-district Leer and also a member of the district board and the district committee Weser-Ems and deputy chairman of the SPD district Weser-Ems. From 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the district council in the district of Leer, from 1980 to 1993 councilor of the city of Leer and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there.

Tietjen was a member of the German Bundestag from September 12, 1974, when he replaced the retired MP Günter Wichert , until 1976 and from 1980 until his death in 1993 . In the federal elections in 1980 , 1983 , 1987 and 1990 he was elected to parliament via the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony . In the Bundestag he was a member of the Committee on Youth, Family and Health from September to December 1974, and then of the Legal Affairs Committee until the end of the legislative period. From 1980 to 1990 he was a member of the Interior Committee and from 1990 to 1993 a member of the Tourism Committee.

In the early 1990s, through no fault of his own, Tietjen was targeted by the protection of the constitution . At the time, the Bundestag had to deal with the case because the MP's essential rights were violated without a legal basis. Letters sent by Tietjen to the suspect were opened in the course of the investigation against a suspected former Stasi employee. The letters came from Tietjen's office, they had nothing to do with the allegations and were based on a purely incidental contact with the person being monitored. Nevertheless, a file on the MP was created at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Günther Tietjen died on July 7, 1993 in Leer after a serious illness. There, the “Günther-Tietjen-Ring” is a street named after him.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 878-879.