Heinrich Gewandt

Henry Darling (* 21st May 1926 in Hamburg , † 11 August 2013 ) was a German CDU - politician .

Life and work

Darling, of Protestant origin, attended after secondary school , the state higher business school and an apprenticeship as a foreign trade buyer. Then he attended the interpreting seminar. After work and military service, he attended the druggist school and passed the druggist exam. He then worked in the field of drugstore items in foreign trade - especially with South America. From 1965 to 1969 he was Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Developing Countries . From 1969 to 1980 he acted as President of the German Drug Association . From 1971 to 1983 he was also President of the Confederation of European Drug Associations.

Political party

Gewandt was state chairman of the Junge Union in Hamburg from 1949 to 1956 . Since 1951 he was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU in Hamburg, later he became district chairman in the Hamburg-Nord district . From 1957 he was chairman of the state committee of the Hamburg CDU, which he himself founded that year. In 1970 he took part in the founding of the Hamburg regional association of the CDU SME Association , of which he was also the deputy federal chairman.

MP

Gewandt was elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1953 and belonged to the parliamentary committee of the Hamburg bloc (electoral party from CDU, FDP , DP and GB / BHE ). In the same year the citizens elected him as deputy to the judicial authorities. With his election to the Bundestag, he left the citizenry.

From 1957 to 1976, Gewandt was a member of the German Bundestag . He was spokesman for the Group for Cooperation with Developing Countries and was particularly active in the area of ​​South America. He came under fire when he visited Chile after the coup led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973 and then declared in front of the Ibero Club in Bonn that the country was now creditworthy again. After these statements, he was not re-run as a candidate for the 1976 federal election .

Publications

• Records and memories. In: Members of the German Bundestag. Records and memories. Volume 5, Boppard am Rhein, 1988, pages 115 to 223.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Gewandt in the catalog of the German National Library