Gerd Weng

Weng (center) with Kurt Kiesinger and Ludwig Erhard

Gerhard Weng (* 25. May 1916 in Schomberg , † 16th September 1988 in Konstanz ) was a German politician of the CDU .

education and profession

Weng attended the Uhland Gymnasium in Tübingen , where he graduated from high school in 1935. After military service (1936–1938), he studied law and economics at the universities in Tübingen and Berlin. From 1940 to 1945 he served as a reserve officer and was only able to finish his studies afterwards. Already 1947 Weng with the work "In benefit of the doubt - origin and validity of an unwritten principle in criminal proceedings" to Dr. jur. PhD . From 1948 after his assessor examination, he worked first at the local court in Tübingen and from 1949 at the diocese of Rottenburg as a judicial or higher justice councilor. From 1960 to 1964 Weng was then - most recently as Ministerialrat - political and journalistic advisor to Prime Minister Kiesinger .

politics

Weng has been politically active in the CDU since 1947. In 1964 he became a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg , of which he was a member until 1988. Here he was, among other things, cultural policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group.

After the state elections in 1972, Prime Minister Hans Filbinger brought him into his cabinet and made him State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education under Minister Wilhelm Hahn . He was thus the successor to Wolfgang Meckelein . In 1978 the Ministry of Culture was split up. Weng thus changed to the new Ministry for Science and Art and Minister Helmut Engler in the same function . After the state elections in 1980 Weng became one of the deputies of the state president. He therefore resigned from his position as State Secretary.

honors and awards

Weng received, among other things, the Federal Cross of Merit with Star , Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg and the honorary citizenship of the city of New Orleans in the USA .

Family and private

Weng was married to Ilse born in 1943. Springer and had two sons and a daughter. In 1988 Weng died of a kidney tumor.

The Catholic student union K.St.V. Rechberg in the KV felt very connected to Weng. His older brother Friedrich was one of the founders of this association. Gerhard Weng was unable to join it as a student because it was only reactivated in 1953 after its suspension in 1934. Weng's mother Emma kept the flag and all documents from 1934 until the company was re-established. Weng then immediately became an honorary member and a generous patron of the Rechberg, visited the association regularly and gave numerous lectures there.

Weng was also an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Cheruskia Tübingen in the CV since 1967 .

literature

• GG Kinzel: in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 4th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 5). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1996, ISBN 3-89498-032-X , p. 118 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Gerd Weng  in the German Digital Library