Hans-Otto Wilhelm

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Candidate poster for the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1987

Hans-Otto Wilhelm (* 5. June 1940 in Mainz ; † 19th July 2019 ) was a German politician of the CDU .

After training with a social security agency and working for ZDF , Hans-Otto Wilhelm became a CDU member and city council member in Mainz. From 1974 to 1994 Wilhelm was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament . Until 1987 he headed the parliamentary group, before he was appointed Minister-President Bernhard Vogel as Environment and Health Minister in 1987 .

At the state party conference on November 11, 1988 in Koblenz , there was a violent internal party dispute in the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU. Hans-Otto Wilhelm prevailed against incumbent Bernhard Vogel with 258: 189 delegate votes in a voting vote in the election for state chairman. As a result, Vogel also resigned from the office of Prime Minister. His successor as Prime Minister was Carl-Ludwig Wagner , who was later defeated by the SPD candidate Rudolf Scharping in the 1991 state election.

In 1994 , Hans-Otto Wilhelm was elected directly to the German Bundestag in the Mainz constituency, of which he was a member until 2002. In the course of the lost federal election in 1998, Wilhelm lost his direct mandate to the social democratic law professor Eckhart Pick, who had been defeated four years earlier, and moved into the Bundestag via a list. In 2002 Wilhelm decided not to run again for reasons of age.

In 1987 Wilhelm was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class . He died in July 2019 at the age of 79.

Cabinets

Cabinet Vogel IV

Web links

Commons : Hans-Otto Wilhelm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. VRM grief ; Obituary notice of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on July 26, 2019.
  2. Ursula Samary: Wilhelm won the duel against Vogel by a large majority ; Article in the Rhein-Zeitung of November 10, 2008.
  3. Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate: Printed matter 14/471: Minor question from MP Dr. Walter Altherr (CDU) regarding the award of the Federal Cross of Merit and the State Medal to incumbent MPs on November 27, 2001 (PDF; 9 kB), p. 2.