Hans-Günther Toetemeyer

Hans-Günther Toetemeyer (born January 25, 1930 in Keetmanshoop , South West Africa ; † September 13, 2017 in Trier ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From March 29, 1983 to November 10, 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag for three electoral terms , previously in the 6th and 7th electoral periods (1966–1975) a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Life

Toetemeyer was born in South West Africa, now Namibia , where his father was a missionary. But he moved with the family to Gelsenkirchen at an early age . From 1949 to 1950 he attended grammar school there and after graduating from high school worked in construction. In 1951 he went to the Church University of Wuppertal , where he studied Protestant theology . In addition, Toetemeyer began studying history and English . In the meantime he continued his studies at the University of Bonn . After graduating in 1956, he first worked as a vocational school teacher, then from 1965 at a commercial vocational and technical college for economics in Cologne. He worked there until 1972.

Together with Dieter Corbach († 1994), Ulrich Iseke and Peter Wieners, Hans-Günther Toetemeyer created the first edition of the songbook Die Mundorgel in 1953 .

His brother Gerhard Toetemeyer was Vice Minister in Namibia in the early 2000s. Before that he was the election officer there from 1992 to 1998.

politics

Local politics

Toetemeyer joined the Cologne SPD in 1963 and became a member of the executive committee of the Cologne SPD subdistrict in 1968. From 1975 he was a member of the sub-district executive committee of the SPD Hagen . From 1964 to 1967 he was a member of the Cologne City Council , and from 1972 to 1983 he was an alderman for the city of Hagen, responsible for schools, culture and sport.

State politics

In 1966 and 1970 Toetemeyer was a direct candidate in the constituency of Cologne-Stadt V, a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, to which he belonged in the sixth and seventh electoral periods from July 24, 1966 to May 27, 1975. There he was a member of the culture committee, the petitions committee and the audit committee (1970 to 1972 as deputy chairman), as well as the working group culture, school, science of the SPD parliamentary group. The main focus of his parliamentary work was on school and university policy. His contributions to the disputes about the school reform ( community school vs. confessional school ) and the introduction of the comprehensive school stand out in particular .

Federal politics

In the Bundestag election in 1983 Toetemeyer was elected to the German Bundestag. He obtained the direct mandate in the constituency of Hagen and was a full member of the Committee for Education and Science from 1983 to 1987. Until December 1984 he was also a deputy member of the Committee for Economic Cooperation, after which he was also appointed as a full member. He was able to maintain his mandate in each of the following two federal elections and so he remained a full member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation until he left parliament. After Toetemeyer was also a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 1987 to April 1993, he then moved up as a full member. After the Bundestag election in 1994, he left parliament.

Associations, working groups

Toetemeyer joined the education and science union in 1962 and was also a member of the German-Namibian Society. From 1966 he was also chairman of the Middle Rhine district of the working group of social democratic teachers, two years later he became deputy federal chairman and in 1970 finally state chairman of this working group.

Literature and Sources

• 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 , p. 883.
• Toetemeyer's documents from his time as a member of the state parliament (1966 to 1975) are kept in the state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland department , where they form the RW 0244 inventory.
• The documents from the period 1979 to 1994 are in the archive of the social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, see entry in the inventory overview .
• Further material is in the historical archive of the city of Cologne as holdings from 1521 .

Web links

• Hans-Günther Toetemeyer at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
• Literature by and about Hans-Günther Toetemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Politics of National Reconciliation in Namibia - Overdue the balancing act? Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg i. Br, 20002, Master's thesis.
2. ↑ Toetemeyer bids farewell. The Namibian, September 1, 2004.