Heinrich Arens

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Heinrich Arens (* 1941 ) is a German entrepreneur and former politician of the FDP .

Life

Arens comes from Lower Saxony , is a trained lawyer and moved to Thuringia in 1990 . He ran a company in Erfurt for the economic evaluation of hotels, large-scale facilities and industrial companies.

politics

It wasn't until the summer of 1998 that Arens began to be actively involved in politics. In March 1999, at the Thuringian FDP state party conference, he was surprisingly elected state chairman. At the FDP federal party conference in 1999 , he became an assessor in the FDP federal executive committee. After the European elections in 1999 , he hit the headlines when he was the only state chairman, due to the poor performance of the FDP , calling for the resignation of its then federal chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt .

For the state election in Thuringia on September 12, 1999 , he appeared as a clear opponent of a possible red-red coalition and spoke out in favor of a coalition between his party and the CDU . Three days before the election, he made a personal statement recommending that the voters give the CDU the second vote in order to prevent a majority from the SPD and PDS . The then FDP federal chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt and the then general secretary Guido Westerwelle showed no understanding for this approach. At Gerhardt's request, the Thuringian FDP regional association initiated a party expulsion process against Arens on September 10, 1999, two days before the election day. The FDP got 1.1 percent of the vote in the election. Thereupon Arens was released from his duties as state chairman by the FDP state executive committee, but obtained an injunction against this decision at the Erfurt district court , so that a special FDP party conference was convened for November 9, 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Nicole Adolph: Portrait: Heinrich Arens (FDP): Arguable Liberal. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. September 3, 1999, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Andrea Hentschel / Albert Funk: The FDP made headlines at the end of the election campaign: your top candidate calls for the CDU to be elected. Der Tagesspiegel, September 10, 1999, accessed on November 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Erfurt: FDP chief triggers scandal with recommendation for CDU: - WELT. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
  4. ^ Heinrich Arens (FDP) recommended the CDU before the election: A "traitor" is standing for re-election in Thuringia. Berliner Zeitung, November 5, 1999, accessed on November 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Arens, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1941