Gottfried Milde senior

Candidate poster for the state elections in Hesse in 1987

Gottfried Milde (born April 14, 1934 in Breslau ; † July 14, 2018 in Griesheim ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ) and Hessian Interior Minister from 1987 to 1990 .

Life

After fleeing Silesia in January 1945, Milde grew up in Lower Franconia , graduated from high school in Schweinfurt in 1953 and then studied law at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Würzburg . In Frankfurt he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . He initially embarked on a career in the judicial service and was prosecutor for white-collar crime in Darmstadt from 1964 to 1966 .

Gottfried Milde was married to Eva; there are four children from the marriage. His son Gottfried was also a member of the state parliament in the Hessian state politics from 1997 to 2012.

politics

Milde had been a member of the CDU since 1961 and was active at the local level in the Griesheim city parliament. From 1977 to 1985 he was district council chairman and, together with District Administrator Franz-Hermann Kappes, accompanied the establishment of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district with the regional reform.

From 1966 to 1991 Milde was representative of the Darmstadt region in the Hessian state parliament , from 1974 to 1987 as parliamentary group chairman. He was then Minister of the Interior in Walter Wallmann's cabinet for three years , until he resigned in the course of a wiretapping affair (the Red Light Beker affair ) and switched to business. The reason for the resignation was a contribution to a debate in the state parliament. There Milde quoted at the end of October 1990 from a bugged telephone call of a Frankfurt lawyer with the Illustrierte Stern , in which it was about 150,000  DM for incriminating statements against Wallmann. The criminal proceedings against Milde in this matter ended in August 1991 without a trial and without a conviction. Gottfried Milde received a fine of 18,000 DM for charitable organizations.

From 1998 to 2011, Gottfried Milde was Federal Chairman and then Honorary President of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society .

honors and awards

• 1978: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1982: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1983: Silesian sign of Landsmannschaft Silesia
• 1990: Hessian Order of Merit
• 1990: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Milde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographical summary on the website of the CDU Hessen
• Gottfried Milde on munzinger.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Interior Minister Gottfried Milde is dead. In: hessenschau.de. July 15, 2018, accessed July 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Gottfried Milde threatens criminal proceedings ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1990 ( online ).
3. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 9, 1991, p. 43: Mildes Schuld; quoted after the resignation of the Hessian Interior Minister Gottfried Milde because of a wiretapping affair, November 6, 1990. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
4. ↑ DMSG press release
5. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 194, October 13, 1978.