Hansjoachim Walther

Hansjoachim Walther, 1990

Hansjoachim Walther (born December 16, 1939 in Bütow , Western Pomerania ; † January 17, 2005 in Stützerbach , Ilmenau , Thuringia ) was a mathematician and German politician ( DSU , later CDU ). From 1990 to 1991 he was Federal Minister for Special Tasks .

education and profession

In 1945 the family fled to Zeitz . After graduating from high school in 1959, Walther began an apprenticeship as a lathe operator and studied mathematics at the Technical University of Dresden , which he completed in 1964 as a qualified mathematician. In the same year he came to the Technical University of Ilmenau and became an assistant. In 1966 he received his doctorate here as Dr. rer. nat. with the work on the problem of the existence of Hamilton circles in planar, regular graphs of degrees 3, 4 and 5 and finally his habilitation in 1969 with the work Extreme Circles and Longest Paths in Finite Graphs , also in graph theory . He has been a lecturer since 1970 and was appointed associate professor (without a chair) in 1986. After the reunification he took over the chair for discrete mathematics and algebra in Ilmenau .

He died of a heart attack at a football game of the old men in Stützerbach .

Political party

In 1989 Walther was one of the co-founders of the Forum Party in Thuringia , but then joined the German Social Union in January 1990 as a co-founder and immediately became its deputy chairman. From May 1990 to June 1991 he was chairman of the DSU. In 1993 he joined the CDU.

MP

After the first free Volkskammer election in 1990 , Walther was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR from March to October 1990 . Here he was chairman of the DSU parliamentary group . From October 3, 1990 to December 20, 1990 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

He was in the council of the Ilm circle selected and sat in the committee for school , culture and sports and worked as party leader by 2004.

Public offices

On 3 October 1990 Walther was as Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. After the unsuccessful federal election for the DSU on December 2, 1990 (only 1.0% in the eastern electoral area), he resigned from the federal government on January 18, 1991.

Honors

The Slovak University of Košice awarded Walther an honorary doctorate in 2000 .

Web links

Commons : Hansjoachim Walther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hansjoachim Walther in the catalog of the German National Library
• Speech by Hansjoachim Walther before the Volkskammer on August 8, 1990 from the film archive of the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project