Hans Stefan Seifriz

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Hans Stefan Seifriz (born January 28, 1927 in Bremen ; † February 26, 2020 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1961 to 1970 he was a member of the German Bundestag , from 1969 to 1979 a member of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and from 1979 to 1987 a member of the Bremen Parliament .

education and profession

Seifriz completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Bremer Zeitung after primary school . He continued his education in courses at evening school and during the Second World War initially did alternative service in the municipal district office and in the children's area dispatching department . On April 20, 1944, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 9,753,363) and did military service as a medic with the Waffen SS . After the end of the war, Seifriz was a prisoner of war until June 1946 ; After his release, he trained as a journalist and then worked as an editor for various Bremen daily newspapers . From 1958 to 1962 he worked as managing director of the Bremen adult education center and the educational center Work and Life .

politics

Seifriz was a member of the SPD. He was first a member of the Bremen state executive committee of the Socialist Youth in Germany and later to the Bremen SPD state executive committee.

Member of the German Bundestag

From October 17, 1961 to January 6, 1970 Seifriz was a member of the German Bundestag . He was directly elected three times in a row for the SPD in the Bremen-West constituency. In the 4th electoral term (1961–1965) he was a full member of the committees for family and youth issues and for transport, postal and telecommunications and a deputy member of the committee for cultural policy and journalism. In the 5th electoral term (1965-1969) he was a full member of the Transport Committee and from June 21, 1967, its chairman. In the 6th electoral term (1969–1972) Seifriz was a full member of the Committee for Transport and for Post and Telecommunications. After his election to the Bremen Senate, Seifriz resigned from his Bundestag mandate. In parallel to his membership in the Bundestag, Seifriz was a member of the European Parliament elected by the German Bundestag from November 29, 1961 to October 1, 1967 .

Senator in Bremen

From December 3, 1969 to June 25, 1979 Seifriz served as Senator for the Building Industry of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. During his time there was a major change in the building policy of the city of Bremen. In 1971, as a building senator, he published the “Bremen urban development program”, in which an increase in Bremen's population from 600,000 to 800,000 inhabitants was assumed. In the "main traffic route plan", the so-called Mozart route ran through the Ostertor and Buntentor districts as a city motorway , the so-called Werderland route through Werderland in Burglesum and the Schwachhauser Ring road through the Bürgerpark . The exaggerated prognosis of the population development and the planning of the traffic routes were withdrawn by the building senator, instead the expansion of the light rail was intensified. Seifriz was described as a hapless senator, as his changes in building policy often only took place under pressure from the political base in the country.

After the break of the social-liberal coalition in Bremen and the departure of the three FDP senators on June 1, 1971, Hans Stefan Seifriz also served for six months as the successor to Ulrich Graf (FDP) as Senator for Justice and the Constitution and Senator for Church Affairs. He gave up both offices in the course of the new government on December 15, 1971. After Karl-Heinz Jantzen (SPD) left the Bremen Senate on September 4, 1978, Seifriz was entrusted with the management of the finance department until the new Senator for Finance Henning Scherf (SPD) took office on September 27, 1978 .

In the run-up to the 1979 Bremen citizenship election , the CDU- affiliated weekly Weser-Report accused Seifriz of having written Nazi slogans in the Bremer newspaper in 1944 at the age of 17 . Seifriz had already distanced himself from these articles when he applied for admission to journalism training in the late 1940s and in 1961 when he was nominated as a candidate for the Bundestag and apologized; nevertheless, he resigned as senator on June 25, 1979 and published the comment “My resignation is not the result of coming to terms with the past again. His sole aim is to have my party's back during the election campaign ”.

The mayor of Bremen, Hans Koschnick (SPD), stated that the Senate had put itself fully in front of Stefan Seifriz: “I am not ready to accept that members of those age groups will be broken today because of their work in the Hitler Youth. Knowing their past, the SPD called these young people to actively participate in the democratic state, because we expect a convincing example of our free-democratic society from them, who, in retrospect, were able to make a direct judgment about the criminal influences of the Nazi state could. ”That was also the case with Stefan Seifriz.

From January 6, 1970 until he left the Senate on June 25, 1979, Hans Sefan Seifriz was a deputy member of the Federal Council and a member of the committee for urban development and housing.

Member of Parliament in Bremen

After his resignation as senator, Seifriz resumed the citizenship mandate, which had been suspended due to his membership in the Senate, was re-elected to Bremen's citizenship in the 1979 and 1983 citizenship elections and was a member of the state parliament until the end of the 11th electoral term on October 12, 1987.

Seifriz was a co-founder of the Bremen State Youth Association and was a member of the German UNESCO Commission .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-trauer-um-hans-stefan-seifriz-_arid,1900418.html
  2. ^ The Nazi past of former members of the Bremen citizenship. (PDF; 2 MB) Project study and scientific colloquium. Bremische Bürgerschaft, November 2014, p. 99 , accessed on January 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The Senator for Building: City Development Program Bremen, draft 1971
  4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of June 26, 1979, page 2.
personal data
SURNAME Seifriz, Hans Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdB, MdEP, MdBB
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2020
Place of death Bremen