Heinrich Lummer

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Heinrich Lummer (1989)

Heinrich Jodokus Lummer (born November 21, 1932 in Essen - † June 15, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1980 to 1981 he was President of the Berlin House of Representatives and subsequently Senator for Interior and Mayor of Berlin until 1986 .

Earlier career

From 1939 to 1948 Lummer attended elementary school and then completed his training as an electrical mechanic by 1952 . After his apprenticeship, he continued to work in the profession and from 1952 to 1957 attended the evening grammar school in Dortmund , where he finally obtained his Abitur .

Although he was initially enthusiastic about theology , from 1957 he studied political science , philosophy and law at the Free University of Berlin and in 1961 passed the diploma examination as a political scientist at the Otto Suhr Institute .

In addition to studying in Berlin, Lummer was also active as a representative of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students in the General Student Committee , of which he was chairman from 1960 to 1961.

After graduating, he worked as an assistant at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science from 1962 to 1964. On behalf of the Federal Intelligence Service , he also interviewed migrants from the GDR during this period .

In 1964 he took over the management of the visitor service in the Bundeshaus in Berlin.

At the end of the 1990s, Lummer studied art history as a guest student in Berlin.

politics

Heinrich Lummer joined the CDU in 1953 and in 1965 became managing director of the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives. In addition to his CDU membership, he was also a member of the German Conservatives Association , of which he had been honorary president since 1998.

From 1977 he was a member of the Federal Foreign Policy Committee of the CDU in Germany for several years.

Within the CDU Berlin , Lummer held various party offices in the former Zehlendorf district association and was most recently a member of the merged Steglitz-Zehlendorf district association. Between 1987 and 1989 Lummer was also deputy state chairman of the CDU Berlin.

Member of the Berlin House of Representatives (1967–1987)

Interview with Heinrich Lummer (1975)

In March 1967, Lummer moved into the House of Representatives for the first time and took over the chairmanship of the CDU parliamentary group from Franz Amrehn in April 1969 , thus also becoming the leader of the opposition in parliament.

He held this office continuously until 1980 and is still the parliamentary group leader with the longest term in the CDU Berlin .

As the successor to Peter Lorenz , Lummer became President of the Berlin House of Representatives in December 1980. Because of his impending appointment as senator , he resigned on June 1, 1981. He was succeeded by Peter Rebsch to as parliamentary speaker.

Lummer was a member of the House of Representatives until 1987.

Interior Senator of Berlin (1981–1986)

After the Governing Mayor Dietrich Stobbe ( SPD ) resigned in 1981 because of the Garski affair , the previous Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) was first elected as the new head of government, but at the same time new elections were set for May 1981 , from which a minority government of the CDU emerged. which was sworn in on June 11, 1981. This election is still considered decisive today because it was the first time that an SPD Senate was voted out of government responsibility.

In the Weizsäcker Senate , Lummer was appointed Senator for the Interior by the new Governing Mayor Richard von Weizsäcker , succeeding Frank Dahrendorf . At the same time he took over the office of mayor and thus deputy head of government. In 1984 Weizsäcker, who was proposed for the office of Federal President , announced his resignation. In the new Senate Diepgen I under the governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen , who was sworn in on February 9, 1984, Lummer remained in his offices as interior senator and mayor.

After the Berlin building scandal surrounding the building councilor of Berlin-Charlottenburg , Wolfgang Antes , Lummer, as well as building senator Klaus Franke (on April 7, 1986) and environment senator Horst Vetter (on April 8, 1986) resigned from their offices and were not reshuffled even when the cabinet was reshuffled more considered.

Lummer's successor was Wilhelm Kewenig , who until then was a member of the Senate as Senator for Science.

Member of the German Bundestag (1987–1998)

In 1987 Lummer was elected for the first time as a Berlin member of the German Bundestag , to which he was a member until 1998.

In the 1990 elections he entered the state list of the CDU Berlin, in 1994 he was directly elected member of the Berlin-Spandau constituency with 43.3% of the vote . In the 13th legislative period he was a member of the Postal Committee and a deputy member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs.

With the 1998 elections , he left the Bundestag, having already declared in 1996 that he would not stand again.

Heinrich Lummer on an election poster for the 1990 Bundestag election.

Further commitment

Since 1969 Heinrich Lummer was deputy chairman of the Berlin State Board of Trustees of the “Indivisible Germany” Board. From 1971 to 1980 he was also the chairman of the German Association of Political Scientists and since 1973 a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Sender Free Berlin for eight years .

In 1989, after the Republicans party had been elected to the Berlin House of Representatives for the first time, Lummer succeeded Lothar Bossle as President of the Institute for Democracy Research in Würzburg.

In December 1992 he was one of the founders of the former CDU / CSU group Christian Conservatives Germany Forum .

At the end of the 1990s, Lummer moderated a television program on the regional broadcaster TV.Berlin with the title Auf den Punkt Berlin . In one of the shows he was tricked by comedian Hape Kerkeling . He snuck in for his Sat.1 series About Laughing the World , in the role of an angry allotment gardener, in Lummer's talk show and put the moderator's patience to the test.

Most recently, Lummer was chairman of the non-profit association Robert-Tillmanns-Haus until 2005 .

Controversy

Lummer was a proponent of a "fourth party" ; Corresponding public statements were suppressed in 1979 by the CDU top candidate for the office of governing mayor, Richard von Weizsäcker, shortly after his candidacy.

During his tenure as Senator for the Interior, the squatter Klaus-Jürgen Rattay died on September 22, 1981 . The incident developed into a political issue, as Lummer had previously announced that he would crack down on the Berlin squatter scene and held a press conference at the time of Rattay's death in the house at Bülowstrasse 89, which had been vacated shortly before. Demonstrators in front of the house on Bülowstrasse - including Rattay - had been pushed onto the busy Potsdamer Strasse by using a baton .

In 1989 it became known that the Federal Intelligence Service let Lummer work for a long time as Interior Senator, although parliamentarians should not be listed as intelligence links ( BT-Drs. 13/4374).

In the 1990s Lummer visited the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and kept in regular contact with him.

On May 1, 1999, Lummer wrote in the Ostpreußenblatt that Stalin and the US government ( Earnest Hooton ) had planned the extermination of the German people through the forced immigration of foreign peoples. Turkish immigration to Germany should also be understood in this context.

In 1994, Lummer signed the " Berlin Appeal " warning against the resurgence of socialism. In 2001 he co-signed another appeal; this was directed against the discharge of the conservative first lieutenant in the reserve, Götz Kubitschek , from the Bundeswehr. In 2006 he signed the “Appeal for Press Freedom” of the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit against its exclusion from the Leipzig Book Fair .

Contacts to right-wing extremism

Der Spiegel reported in 1989 that in 1971 Lummer paid a right-wing radical group DM 2,000 to pasted over election posters of the SPD.

In 1999, right-wing Hohenrain Verlag published his book Germany should remain German: no country of immigration, no double pass, no land law . In this book, Lummer warned against “ foreign infiltration ” to Germany and spoke out in favor of “preserving the German people and German culture”. There he also used the controversial term "Holocaust Industry".

As honorary president of the right-wing extremist association “ The German Conservatives e. V. “Lummer wrote regularly for their Conservative newspaper . Moreover Lummer was temporarily author of the New Right weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and joined as a speaker for the associated right-wing, duty striking fraternity Danubia Munich on.

anti-Semitism

On November 8, 1997, Lummer spoke out in the Ostpreußenblatt against the immigration of Russian Jews to Germany.

In November 1998 Heinrich Lummer was refused entry to Israel . The plane with 33 participants on board was diverted via Istanbul on its way to Tel Aviv , where the group disembarked.

On September 10, 1999, Lummer suggested in Junge Freiheit that the “American east coast” was forcing Germany to erect the Holocaust memorial .

On May 26, 2000, Lummer suggested in the Junge Freiheit that the Nazi forced labor was not “so terrible and so little paid”; otherwise the former forced laborers would have made claims for damages earlier. The American Jews only discovered the topic for themselves long after the end of the war in order to strengthen their own identity.

In November 2003, Lummer and other CDU politicians called for “critical solidarity with Martin Hohmann ” after his anti-Semitic speech on the Day of German Unity in a signature campaign .

Attempted recruitment by the Department of State Security

Through regular visits to a pub in East Berlin , where he had political talks with the guests, Lummer attracted the attention of the GDR Ministry for State Security in 1973 . From 1974 to 1981 an unofficial employee (IM) under the code name "Susanne Rau" hired Lummer, who established intimate relationships with him. With this woman and the use of another IM drew the Stasi from Lummer- and later tried to blackmail him with the help of the losses occurring during the relationship Photos for cooperation. However, these attempts failed because of Lummer. The MfS hired her when it learned through wiretapping in 1982 that Lummer had informed the governing mayor Richard von Weizsäcker and the Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the recruitment attempts. Weizsacker left Lummer in office. When it became apparent that Lummer would resign in 1986, the MfS again contacted him through blackmail. Weizsäcker managed through diplomatic channels that the MfS ended the recruitment attempts at the request of the Soviets.

Personal

Heinrich Lummer's grave in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

Lummer was married, had a daughter and two sons and lived in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

After a stroke , he withdrew from the public in 2003. Due to the effects of his illness, he was recently badly marked, could hardly speak and was in need of care.

He spent his old age in a care facility in the district of Zehlendorf .

Heinrich Lummer died in June 2019 at the age of 86. It rests in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery (field 044).

Honors

  • Presidential bust in the Berlin House of Representatives (2009)

Publications (selection)

  • Conservative viewpoints. Sinus Verlag, 1987.
  • Asylum. An abused right. Ullstein Report , 1992.
  • Germany should remain German: no country of immigration - no double passport - no land law. Hohenrain , 1999.
  • The red quartet breaks up. Foreword by Joachim Siegerist . Kölle Druck, 1999.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Lummer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Heinrich Lummer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf von Laer: Farewell to a Conservative. In: FreieWelt.net . June 18, 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Berlin's ex-Interior Senator Heinrich Lummer is dead. In: morgenpost.de . June 18, 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Billy Six : Former top Berlin politician Heinrich Lummer is dead. In: konservative.de. June 2019, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michael Bauerschmidt, Susanne Brandt, Ulli Jentsch, Kurt Ohrowski: Profile Heinrich Lummer. In: apabiz.de . August 5, 2016, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Huber: Lummer number: How Hape Kerkeling tricked the ex-politician. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 14, 2000, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ Heinrich Lummer. In: parlament-berlin.de. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  7. ^ On the 35th anniversary of the death of Klaus-Jürgen Rattay. In: umbruch-bildarchiv.de. September 22, 2016, accessed June 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Josef Hufelschulte: The secret channel. In: Focus 48/1995. November 27, 1995. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ Heinrich Lummer: Identity transformed and erased . In: The Ostpreußenblatt . Volume 50, episode 17, May 1, 1999.
  10. ↑ 28.09.01 / Appeal to the Bundeswehr: Against the dismissal of conservative soldiers / The "Götz Kubitschek case". Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ nz: Celebrities stand up for “Young Freedom”. Archived from the original on January 13, 2014 ; accessed on January 2, 2013 (in Netzeitung , February 7, 2006).
  12. ↑ Charter 2017 - an appeal for freedom of opinion and art . In: Conservo . October 19, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed November 28, 2018]).
  13. ↑ 17.02.06 / Thank you! / A victory for freedom of the press / JUNGE FREIHEIT prevails. Retrieved July 1, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Secret Services: Invigorating leisure hours. In: Der Spiegel 39/1989. September 25, 1989. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Heinrich Lummer: Germany should remain German . Hohenrain-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-89180-056-0 .
  16. ↑ Not wanted in Israel: Niebel, Haider, Lummer. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . April 9, 2012, Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  17. ^ Heinrich Lummer: Doubtful motives . In: Young Freedom . September 10, 1999.
  18. ^ Moritz Schwarz: Off to new shores . In: Young Freedom . tape 22/00 , May 26, 2000.
  19. ↑ Newspaper advertisement from Union members: 1600 signatures for Martin Hohmann. In: Spiegel Online . November 25, 2003. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ "Some open words": Lummer espionage case: The Christian Democrat and the GDR agent. In: Der Spiegel 36/1989. September 4, 1989, pp. 26–32 , accessed June 20, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Gilbert Schomaker: Ex-Senator Lummer is honored with a bust in Parliament. In: morgenpost.de . September 24, 2009, accessed June 20, 2019 . Laudation by the President of the Berlin House of Representatives, Walter Momper, on the occasion of the unveiling of the bust of the former President of Parliament Heinrich Lummer. In: parlament-berlin.de . October 9, 2009, accessed June 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lummer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lummer, Heinrich Jodokus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2019
Place of death Berlin