Hans Zehetmair

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Hans Zehetmair (2010)

Johann Baptist "Hans" Zehetmair (born October 23, 1936 in Langengeisling near Erding ) is a German politician of the CSU and former Minister of State for Science, Research and Art. From 1993 to 1998 he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria .

From 2004 to 2014 he was Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation and from 2004 to 2016 Chairman of the Council for German Spelling .

Life

Training and teaching

Born as the son of a farmer and master wagoner, Zehetmair attended the humanistic cathedral grammar school in Freising . After graduating from high school in 1957, Hans Zehetmair studied classical philology , German language and literature , history and social studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich until 1962 , and after taking the second state examination in 1964, he returned to the Dom-Gymnasium in Freising as a high school teacher until 1974.

Political career

Zehetmair began his career in 1966 as a city councilor in Erding, where he was second mayor from 1976 to 1978. In 1972 he was elected deputy district administrator and in 1974 won the Erding district parliament .

In 1978 Zehetmair won against the incumbent Simon Weinhuber from the Bavarian party the office of district administrator of the district of Erding , which he held until his appointment as Minister of State for Education and Culture in 1986 by Franz Josef Strauss .

In June 1989 Max Streibl also appointed him Minister of State for Science and Art and in October 1990 merged the two ministries again to form the State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art. Edmund Stoiber appointed him Deputy Prime Minister in 1993. After the state elections in 1998, Zehetmair's house was divided by Stoiber; the previous State Secretary Monika Hohlmeier was given responsibility for teaching and culture, Zehetmair took over the State Ministry for Science, Research and Art.

Zehetmair was CSU district chairman of Erding from 1972 to 2001, represented the states of the Federal Republic of Germany in the European Council of Ministers of Culture for 15 years and from 1989 to 2003 senator of the Max Planck Society .

After the state elections in Bavaria in 2003 , Zehetmair left the cabinet and state parliament .

Since July 2003, Zehetmair engaged as an expert in the Study Commission of the German Bundestag "Culture in Germany".

Other engagement

Since the founding of the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Center for Environment and Culture in Benediktbeuern , he has held the chairmanship of the board, which he handed over to Georg Fahrenschon in 2010 . From February 11, 2004 to May 2014, Zehetmair was chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation . In addition, from December 2004 to December 2016 he is chairman of the Council for German Spelling, set up by the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs .

He is a member of the program advisory board of the TV broadcaster ARTE , honorary chairman of the Catholic men's association in Tuntenhausen and was chairman of the board of directors of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . Zehetmair also volunteered on the board of directors of TSV 1860 Munich and as curator of the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing.

family

Zehetmair is married and has three children.

Political positions

School policy

Hans Zehetmair

One of Zehetmair's main concerns was the expansion of the universities of applied sciences in Bavaria. He warned his successor Thomas Goppel , alluding to his massive cuts since 2003, to ensure continuity.

At the beginning of 1988 Zehetmair decreed that in future all subjects should "include the religious dimension of the subject". Under his responsibility, Bavarian elementary school students received one hour of music and art lessons each week, while religious lessons were given three hours a week. Religious instruction for high school and high school students was two hours a week, while at the same time only one hour was available for history and social studies.

Zehetmair reintroduced the abolished school prayer, whereupon the Bavarian Parents' Association compared this step with a “trip to the Biedermeier”.

During his tenure, Zehetmair ensured that the Bavarian guidelines on sex education were not changed. As a result, instead of naked people, Bavarian school books only showed symbolic images stylized with stick figures. Under Zehetmair's aegis, the aspect of “procreation” was deleted without replacement in the biology books of the Free State under the topic “Origin of human life”.

During his tenure in office Zehetmair declared in the 1980s that the image of women that Bavaria's school books are supposed to convey includes the modern woman who finds support in prayer.

After the religious " Freundeskreis Maria Goretti " demanded that Louis Pergaud 's classic children's book " The War of Buttons " be removed from the canon of Bavarian school literature because it describes the copulation of two dogs, Zehetmair complied with the demands.

Zehetmair turned against teachers "who incite our youth against the democratic state and its elected institutions". He described ideologically oriented educators as "cancer evils in society". His basic opinion on this question was "Whoever does not actively represent the state should go ..." Due to the many applications that he receives every day, he can fill every position tenfold at any time. As a district administrator, Zehetmair almost fired a guitar teacher at his district music school after he had used a music book from the GDR. Zehetmair later commented on the process with the words "Defend against the beginnings!"

Political Catholicism

After Max Streibl took over the office of Bavarian Prime Minister after the death of Franz Josef Strauss in 1988, Zehetmair succeeded him as chairman of the Catholic men's association Tuntenhausen, which was influential in Bavaria . The association is considered to be the heart of political Catholicism in the Free State of Bavaria. In the 1990s, the prevention of the reform of Paragraph 218 was the main focus of the association's members.

homosexuality

As Minister of State for Science and Art, Zehetmair represented politically conservative theses: on Bavarian television in 1987 he described homosexuality as “contra naturam” (against nature) “and basically […] pathological behavior” and added that “this margin […] thinned out must be.

In the same year, Zehetmair had already described HIV as a “symptom of an ailing society” and placed homosexuality in the “marginal area of ​​degeneration”. In this context he recommended again: "The environment of ethical values ​​must be rediscovered in order to thin out this degeneration."

Pinakothek der Moderne

In the 1990s, Zehetmair managed to save the 130 million euro project Pinakothek der Moderne . After he had prevailed in 1991 against an expensive plan that had already been decided, in 1994 he prevented the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Finance from abandoning the project by assuring that he would be able to raise ten percent of the construction cost privately. He successfully implemented his promise in the following years.

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • ed .: The future needs conservatives . Herder publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30295-4 .

literature

  • Hans Krieger : Zehetmair's courage and opportunity. The ex-minister of culture to the spelling peace cause . In: Bayerische Staatszeitung issue 50 of Friday, December 10, 2004

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. br.de: Ursula Männle becomes boss ( Memento from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Martin Gleixner: 175 years of Dom-Gymnasium Freising. Friends of the Dom-Gymnasium Freising eV, 2003, accessed on June 24, 2013 .
  3. Hans Zehetmair's biography. German Bundestag, archived from the original on September 25, 2007 ; Retrieved June 24, 2013 .
  4. DIE WELT, May 12, 2014
  5. DIE WELT, May 23, 2014
  6. Hossa, the deer shape is here! , spiegel.de, August 1, 2006 .
  7. About the BAW ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. a b c d e f procreation hamma net - Bavaria's minister of education Zehetmair, clerical funder of the CSU, is ridiculed in his own party . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1991, pp. 72-75 ( online - 21 October 1991 ).
  9. Quotations . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1988, pp. 174 ( Online - Aug. 15, 1988 ). Quote: "The image of women that Bavaria's schoolbooks are supposed to convey includes the modern woman who finds support in prayer."
  10. a b Into the sick - Minister of Education Zehetmair, appointed by Strauss to the CSU cabinet, attacks AIDS sufferers, homosexuals and insubordinate teachers. In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1987, pp. 56-59 ( Online - Apr. 20, 1987 ).
  11. Handy and lively - Bavaria's Prime Minister Strauss actually wanted to "not organize a mass death" - but now he has moved or replaced half the cabinet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1986, pp. 26-28 ( online - November 3, 1986 ).
  12. a b To the final maturity - Catholic fundamentalists put the CSU under pressure. Your general theme is abortion . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1992, pp. 44-47 ( online - June 8, 1992 ).
  13. District Administrator with Pinakothek , taz.de, August 26, 2003 .
  14. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)