Hartmut Saenger

Hartmut Saenger (born December 31, 1940 in Schönlanke , Netzekreis ; † November 22, 2013 in Bad Nauheim , Wetteraukreis ), was a German politician ( CDU ) and spokesman for the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft .

Life

Saenger was born in 1940 in Schönlanke in the Netzekreis , which historically had belonged to Posen , but since 1938 belonged to the province of Pomerania . After fleeing and being expelled, he came to Bremen with his family , where he graduated from high school in 1960. He served as a contract soldier in the German Armed Forces for three years , where he was promoted to officer. He then studied economics at the University of Hamburg ; During this time he was a member of the community of Danzig-West Prussian students .

Saenger worked in the education sector in Hessen . Most recently he was managing director of the CDU-affiliated Hessian Academy for Civic Education until 2004 .

Saenger was an active member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). In his home town of Rosbach vor der Höhe he was a city ​​councilor for many years , most recently since 2006 city ​​elder .

He was involved in the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft and in the Association of Displaced Persons (BdV): for over twenty years he was the Hessian state chairman of the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft, from 1999 a member of the federal board of the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft and from 2007 until his death spokesman for the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Presidium of the Association of Expellees. Since 2008 he has also been a member of the board of the Reconciliation Church Foundation in the Pomerania Center . Since 2010 he was also chairman of the Pomeranian Central Association. In 2011 he was elected a deputy member of the Board of Trustees of the Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation .

Criticism of political statements

Saenger was criticized in 2009 because he had taken the view in the Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung (published by the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen ) that "all the great powers" had shown "an astonishing readiness for war" before the Second World War . He also said: “Poland was particularly belligerent.” He had also expressed the opinion that “only England” had “made the war for Danzig into a global conflict.”

The President of the Federation of Expellees, Erika Steinbach , also a CDU member, defended against criticism in a press release by the BdV Saenger: "The facts presented belong to the basic knowledge of every contemporary historian." An attempt is made to the BdV in a "concerted action." “Lined up with history fakers,” she explained.

The General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews Stephan Kramer informed Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann in a letter in September 2010 that he was a member of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation in protest against “revanchist positions” - the CDU politicians, Hartmut Saenger and Arnold , who were appointed as deputy members Tölg - to rest until further notice and reserve the right to leave.

literature

• On the death of Hartmut Saenger . In: The Pommersche Zeitung . No. 48/2013, pp. 1-2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The inconspicuous. Frankfurter Rundschau, accessed on September 9, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Franziska Augstein : Reconciling or mocking. Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on September 9, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Anger about representatives of the expellees: “Clearly revanchist positions”. Hessischer Rundfunk , archived from the original on September 15, 2010 ; Retrieved September 9, 2010 . 
4. ↑ welt.de : Central Council stops working in the displaced persons foundation from September 6, 2010
5. ^ Sueddeutsche.de : Central Council of Jews leaves the Foundation for Displaced Persons ( memento from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from September 6, 2010