Hannsheinz Bauer

Hannsheinz Bauer (born March 28, 1909 in Wunsiedel ; † July 18, 2005 in Würzburg ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and one of the "fathers of the Basic Law ".

Life and work

Bauer, who was of Protestant faith, grew up in Würzburg. After the Abitur at grammar school in Würzburg he studied until 1933 law in Munich and Würzburg and because he had to stop his studies because of his Jewish origins as a political refugee, then took a commercial activity in the banking and automotive industry at. During the Second World War he was a soldier and was taken prisoner by the US , from which he returned in November 1945.

On February 1, 1946, he resumed work as a consultant for population in the Würzburg city administration.

He was married to Ingeborg born in 1947. Rees.

Political party

At the age of 21, Bauer joined the SPD in 1930. From 1930 to 1933 he was involved in the socialist student body and was chairman of the German Republican Student Union in Würzburg. In 1945 he took part in the reconstruction of the SPD. Since 1989, Bauer has been honorary chairman of the SPD district of Lower Franconia (Bavaria). The seat of the district association, the Hannsheinz-Bauer-Haus in Würzburg, was named after him.

MP

Since July 2, 1946 Bauer member of the Bavarian Constituent national assembly and thus in the drafting was constitutional Bavaria involved. From 1946 until his resignation on September 6, 1953, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Bauer was a member of the Parliamentary Council in 1948/1949 . After that he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1972. There he was from February 22, 1967 to 1969 chairman of the Bundestag committee for election testing, immunity and rules of procedure.

From 1958 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as a member of the German delegation. From January 1972 to 1973 he was its vice-president, after having been chairman of the local committee of rules from 1960 to 1973. The designation of Würzburg as a European city after the award of the European Prize on October 14, 1973 is essentially due to Bauer's European political activities.

He was the last surviving member of the Parliamentary Council.

Work for the GDR State Security

According to the BStU's 2007 Rosenholz report, Hannsheinz Bauer is one of those members of the 6th German Bundestag with whom the Enlightenment Headquarters of the GDR Ministry for State Security apparently had direct relationships. About Bauer, who was called “Volk” by the HV A from around 1960 onwards, it says: “The operational flow of information was so rapid that the 21st volume had to be created as early as 1968, which corresponds to about 6300 sheets of paper. 'People' was always considered reliable. ”The information provided included minutes of committee meetings of the SPD party executive, the legal working group and minutes of meetings of the Council of Europe from 1972.

In Rosenholz: Eine Quellenkritik (2007), Helmut Müller-Enbergs named Bauer as a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1972 under “at least ten” who was in direct contact with the Stasi intelligence headquarters. The BStU stated in 2013: "[O] b Bauer deliberately placed himself in the service of the HV A, cannot be ascertained with the necessary certainty given the current file transfer."

Honors

1964: Bavarian Order of Merit
1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Volume 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 41-42.

Web links

Hannsheinz Bauer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

↑ Hannsheinz Bauer, a father of the Basic Law . WorldN24. July 23, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
↑ Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 337.
↑ spiegel.de on July 25, 2005: DIED Hannsheinz Bauer
↑ Die Zeit No. 24, June 4, 2009, p. 44 Spitzenquellen West , and Helmut Müller-Enbergs: "Rosenholz" A source criticism. (PDF) bstu.de, 2007, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 227. ( PDF ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).

personal data
SURNAME	Bauer, Hannsheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wunsiedel
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 2005
Place of death	Wurzburg

[Verweis-1] Hannsheinz Bauer, a father of the Basic Law . WorldN24. July 23, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2017.

[2] Rolf-Ulrich Kunze : Würzburg 1945-2004. Reconstruction, modern city. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 318-346 and 1292-1295; here: p. 337.

[3] spiegel.de on July 25, 2005: DIED Hannsheinz Bauer

[4] Die Zeit No. 24, June 4, 2009, p. 44 Spitzenquellen West , and Helmut Müller-Enbergs: "Rosenholz" A source criticism. (PDF) bstu.de, 2007, accessed on August 15, 2020 .

[5] BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Expert opinion to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 227. ( PDF ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).