Hans Lenz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hans Lenz (1964)

Hans Lenz (born July 12, 1907 in Trossingen , † August 28, 1968 in Rottweil ) was a German politician ( FDP / DVP ). He was Federal Treasury Minister from 1961 to 1962 and Federal Minister for Scientific Research from 1962 to 1965 .

education and profession

Lenz, a great-grandson of Matthias Hohner , first graduated from secondary school in Trossingen and then switched to Dillmann secondary school in Stuttgart . After graduating from high school in 1926, he studied neo- philology and philosophy in Tübingen , Berlin , London , Paris and Reykjavík . He finished his studies in 1932 with the first state examination in philology and then completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller . From 1936 he worked as a publishing director in Breslau and from 1942 as a publishing director in Vienna . As a lieutenant in the reserve of the intelligence force, awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class, he took part in the Second World War. From 1943, he participated in the war and became a prisoner of war .

From 1947 to 1950 Lenz was Deputy Director of the State University Institute for Music Education in Trossingen. In 1951 he became administrative director of the Hohner Foundation. From 1965 until his death he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben . From 1965 until his death, Lenz was chairman of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Since 1959, Lenz has been one of the publishers of the journal liberal on behalf of the foundation .

Political party

In the Weimar Republic , Lenz belonged to the Liberal Student Union , the university organization of the DDP . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . Since 1948 Lenz was a member of the FDP / DVP. In 1951 he was elected deputy party chairman of the DVP in Württemberg-Hohenzollern . From 1960 to 1964 he was deputy federal chairman of the FDP.

MP

Since 1950 Lenz was city councilor in Trossingen . In 1953 he was elected to the German Bundestag . Here he was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group from 1957 to 1961 . On October 5, 1967, he resigned from the Bundestag for health reasons.

Public offices

Lenz (with two sticks) when he was appointed Research Minister on December 13, 1962

On November 14, 1961, Lenz was appointed Federal Treasury Minister in the federal government led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . Together with the other FDP federal ministers, he resigned from this office on November 19, 1962 on the occasion of the Spiegel affair . On December 13, 1962, he was appointed Federal Minister for Scientific Research and kept this office under Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . During his tenure as research minister, Lenz was also chairman of the German commission for space research . On January 28, 1965, he submitted the first federal research report to the federal government. In it he demanded that the total expenditure for research in Germany had to be doubled by 1970, otherwise Germany would lose touch with other industrial nations in research. After the federal election in 1965 , he resigned from the federal government on October 26, 1965 .

See also

Cabinet Adenauer IV , Cabinet Adenauer V , Cabinet Erhard I.

Honors

On Lenz's 60th birthday, his hometown made him an honorary citizen. Other honors included the 1966 Grand Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of the Falcons of the Republic of Iceland and the title of Honorary Senator from the University of Tübingen. Hans Lenz was honored for his political work in Trossingen with a state funeral.

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 158 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hans Lenz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. BT-Drs. 17/8134 of December 14, 2011: The Federal Government's response to the major question from the Die Linke parliamentary group : “Dealing with the Nazi past” , p. 13 ( PDF ).