Heiner Kappel

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Heiner Ernst Kappel (born December 13, 1938 in Dornheim , today in Groß-Gerau ) is a German politician (Bad Sodener citizen (BSB), Main-Taunus citizen).

Life

After high school and military service, he studied from 1960 to 1966 theology and spent several years as a pastor involved. From 1970 to 1974 he completed additional studies in history and social studies and in 1974 passed the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools . In 1980 he became pedagogical director at a comprehensive school . 1994 was followed by the promotion of Doctor of Philosophy .

Kappel was a member of the FDP from 1973 to 1997. He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1983 to 1999 , was parliamentary managing director and deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. With Achim Rohde and Alexander von Stahl he founded the Liberal Offensive in the FDP in 1995 . He ran in the constituency Main-Taunus I , but was always elected via the state list of the FDP. After leaving the party, he was a non-attached MP from September 24, 1997 until the end of the 1999 electoral term.

In 1997 he resigned from the FDP and joined the predominantly national liberal Federation of Free Citizens (BFB), whose chairman he became after the departure of the party founder and first chairman Manfred Brunner in 1999. Before the 1998 federal election , Kappel sent an "open letter" to Ignatz Bubis , chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , in which he justified his party's negative attitude towards the erection of a Holocaust memorial . In the 1999 state elections he stood for the BfB in his previous constituency Main-Taunus I and achieved 1.8% of the first votes and thus the second-best first vote result of his party after the constituency of Hersfeld , where the BfB received 3.5% of the first votes. The second vote result of 2.2% in the constituency was the second best result after the constituency of Hersfeld (3.3%). After the party “Bund Freie Bürger - Offensive für Deutschland” dissolved in August 2000, Kappel joined the national-conservative German Party (DP) in 2001 and has since been its federal chairman, succeeding Johannes Freiherr von Campenhausen .

In 2001 he ran for the Free Citizens party for the district assembly of the Main-Taunus district and for the city parliament in Bad Soden am Taunus . This party was chaired by his daughter Julia Kappel-Gnirs . Since Kappel spoke out against cooperation with the right-wing extremist NPD, he was removed from the DP's federal executive committee on January 22, 2005 and expelled from the party. He won the legal dispute with the DP, which some members of the executive board sparked against him, in the last instance and in full, and then withdrew from the work of the DP.

In May 2007 he advised the right-wing conservative voter community “ Bremen must live ” in the state election.

Heiner Kappel is now the parliamentary group leader of the Bad Sodener Bürger (BSB), who ran for the local elections on March 27, 2011 and became the second largest group with 21.4% of the votes.

For the district election in the Main-Taunus-Kreis on March 6, 2016, Kappel stood as the sole candidate for the Main-Taunus citizens - as the electoral association Die Freie Bürger has now called itself. According to the preliminary final result of the election, Main-Taunus citizens received 9,380 votes, which corresponds to 0.1% of all votes cast.

He is married and has three children.

literature

  • André Freudenberg: Freedom-conservative small parties in reunified Germany . Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86901-393-0 , Kappels Weg from the FDP to the Bund Freier Bürger.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 293 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 206.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FDP Hessen : Kappel, Heiner. ( Memento of July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Retrieved on May 31, 2011.
  2. ^ FR Online: Eight lists for district elections. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Main-Taunus-Kreis, district elections 2016: Official final result of the district election in the Main-Taunus-Kreis. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kappel, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kappel, Heiner Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastors and politicians (FDP, DP, BFB)
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornheim (Hesse)