Hans-Artur Bauckhage

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Hans-Artur Bauckhage, 1989

Hans-Artur Bauckhage (born February 17, 1943 in Daaden ; † June 16, 2018 ) was a German politician of the FDP . From August 1999 to May 2006 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1987 to 2011 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

Life and work

After graduating from commercial school in 1961, Bauckhage began an apprenticeship as a baker , which he successfully completed in 1964 with a journeyman's certificate . In 1978 he passed the master craftsman's examination in the bakery trade and took over his father's bakery. He led the company until 1996 when he was elected parliamentary group leader of the FDP in the state parliament.

politics

Bauckhage joined the FDP in 1967. In 1971 he became local chairman in Daaden, and in 1981 also district chairman in Altenkirchen . In 1982 he was first elected to the state executive committee of his party. From 1997 he was temporarily a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP . He was chairman of the state committee for media policy of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1969 Bauckhage was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the municipal council and in the Daaden municipal council ; he had only just been elected to both representative bodies. In the local elections in 1974, Bauckhage won a mandate in the Altenkirchen district council and immediately became parliamentary group chairman. With the return of the FDP after a four-year absence, Bauckhage was also a member of the state parliament in 1987 . After the 1991 elections , he became vice-chairman of the parliamentary group and was elected chairman of the parliamentary group in 1996 by his colleagues.

After Rainer Brüderle was elected to the German Bundestag in 1998, Bauckhage succeeded him as Minister for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture for Rhineland-Palatinate. When Justice Minister Peter Caesar resigned in August 1999, Bauckhage also took over from him as Deputy Prime Minister. After the SPD had achieved an absolute majority in the Rhineland-Palatinate state elections in 2006 , the FDP left the government, and Hendrik Hering from the SPD became Bauckhage's successor in the office of Economics Minister . Bauckhage became Deputy President of the State Parliament . In the state elections in 2011 , he was not re-elected to the state parliament due to the failure of the FDP to pass the five percent hurdle .

Bauckhage was a member of the Daaden municipal council until 2014; from 1969 he was also a member of the Daaden local council.

Social Commitment

From November 2007 to April 2008, Bauckhage was the board spokesman for 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In his new role he announced that he would like to present an investor in mid-December 2007. However, he could not keep this promise and resigned on April 7, 2008 after public criticism and sporting failures.

Between May 5, 2007 and May 7, 2011, Bauckhage was President of the Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association (BSV) Rhineland-Palatinate, which is one of the 17 regional associations of the DBS ( German Disabled Sports Association ). On September 29, 2011 he took over the chairmanship of the Förderverein des BSV Rheinland-Pfalz, the association for the promotion of disabled sports in Rhineland-Palatinate. There he succeeded Walter Zuber .

Honors

The Hans-Artur-Bauckhage-Platz in Daaden was named after him in 2019 .

See also

Cabinet Beck II - Cabinet Beck III

Web links

Commons : Hans-Artur Bauckhage  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Artur Bauckhage died. In: Rheinpfalz. June 16, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  2. Bauckhage becomes an honorary citizen. In: Siegener Zeitung . December 14, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .
  3. Hans-Artur-Bauckhage-Platz and community center completed on schedule , Westerwald Post, 4. September 2019, p. 1