Heinz Eggert

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Heinz Eggert (born May 6, 1946 in Rostock ) is a German theologian and politician ( CDU ). From 1991 to 1995 he was Saxon State Minister of the Interior and from 1994 to 2009 a member of the Saxon State Parliament .

Life

After an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , he worked as a signalman and dispatcher at the Rostock port railway from 1964 . Since he was no longer allowed to work at the Warnemünde border station for political reasons after his protest in 1968 against the entry of the Warsaw treaty troops into Prague , he studied Protestant Lutheran theology at the University of Rostock from 1969 to 1974 and then became parish priest in Oybin and student pastor until 1990 in Zittau . His parish apartment was a meeting point for many in the GDR who had problems with the political system. During this time, up to 67 State Security employees were scheduled to spy on him.

According to his own statement, after suffering from severe dysentery , he volunteered to be a patient at the psychiatry in Großschweidnitz . It later became apparent from Eggert's Stasi files that two of the doctors there were unofficial employees of the Stasi. Investigations by the Dresden Public Prosecutor were discontinued due to a lack of evidence.

In the phase of the peaceful revolution in the GDR he was involved as a member of the New Forum and was involved in the round table .

Heinz Eggert is married and has four children.

politics

In May 1990 Eggert became a non-party district administrator in the Zittau district . He became known nationwide through the immediate dismissal of all communist executives in the district office.

In October 1990 he joined the CDU, was deputy state chairman of the CDU Saxony from 1991 to 1995 and 1997 to 2001 and deputy federal chairman of the CDU (“Der Schimanski von Dresden”) from 1992 to 1995.

On September 30, 1991 he was appointed Saxon Minister of State for the Interior. During his tenure, he cracked down on extremist tendencies in Saxony . In July 1991 he founded the "SOKO REX", which was supposed to counter the drastic right-wing extremist acts of violence and attacks.

In 1994 he moved into the Saxon state parliament with a direct mandate and 65 percent of the votes. In October 1995 Eggert was re-elected to the CDU state executive and was again deputy state chairman of the Saxon CDU from 1997 to 2001. In the 1999 elections he was confirmed as a member of parliament with 65.2% of the votes in his constituency of Löbau-Zittau 2 .

From April 2005 to July 2008 Eggert headed the inquiry commission set up by the Saxon State Parliament on the subject of "Demographic development and its effects on the areas of life of the people in the Free State of Saxony and its consequences for the political fields of action", which on September 30, 2008 had 400 pages strong report.

Heinz Eggert did not run for the state election on August 30, 2009 . Stephan Meyer (CDU) from Oderwitz was elected to the Saxon state parliament for his constituency .

Allegations and leave of absence

On June 19, 1995, he took leave of his own accord after male employees made allegations of sexual harassment . Eggert rejected all allegations, applied for an investigation and later filed a complaint himself, which, however, was not pursued further by the public prosecutor as there was no justified initial suspicion . However, he could not prevent this incident from gaining widespread media coverage and rumors of alleged bisexuality from spreading. Eggert finally resigned as Minister of the Interior on July 10, 1995, resigned from his party offices, but retained his mandate in the state parliament. Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf, who had the allegations investigated by an independent judge, regretted Eggert's resignation and declared: "Eggert was unfortunately the victim of an infamous intrigue".

Eggert himself considers the allegations for an originally personal action that was used politically. In December 1995 Eggert won a lawsuit against his former press spokesman Schönherr before the Dresden regional court and can continue to claim: "My former press spokesman Detlef Schönherr is arrogant, was lazy and always lied to me."

further activities

From April 1996 to 1998 Eggert worked in the Treuhandliegenschaftsgesellschaft to accelerate the return of the requested property to the municipalities. From 1996 to September 2002 he hosted the Green Salon on n-tv, initially with Erich Böhme and later with Andrea Fischer . Heinz Eggert has been President of the Central Germany Television Academy in Leipzig since April 2010, succeeding Jürgen Doetz . Eggert has been working on a voluntary basis as a dying companion in the hospice in Herrnhut since 2009 .

Eggert also works as a columnist for the Kostblog .

Honors

literature

  • Klaus-Jürgen Holzapfel (Ed.): Saxon State Parliament. 4th legislative term. 2004-2009 . Status: June 12, 2006. Rheinbreitbach 2006, p. 40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Eggert: Rock'n'Roll and freedom of speech. In: one day . August 18, 2008, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c Heinz Eggert (CDU) ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ). Saxon State Parliament, information desk - MPs
  3. ↑ Heinz Eggert: Socialism with an ugly face. In: one day . October 3, 2008, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Reinhold Andert: Our best. The VIPs of the time of change . Berlin 1993, p. 33
  5. ↑ a b Axel Schock, Karen-Susan Fessel: OUT! - 800 famous lesbians, gays and bisexuals. Querverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89656-111-1 .
  6. ↑ Heinz Eggert: When the district administrator cleans up twice. In: one day . October 25, 2008, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer: The Schimanski of Dresden . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1992 ( online ).
  8. ^ Ministries of the Free State III (from 1945) . sachsen.de
  9. ↑ a b Rainer Jung: A place in the beer tent ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ). In: DS - Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt , No. 4/1998, January 23, 1998
  10. ↑ Christopher Ray: The Interview ( Memento from January 7, 2010 in the web archive archive.today ), faktuell.de, October 28, 1999.
  11. ↑ Enquete Commission presents its final report - great interest from the specialist public . Saxon State Parliament, press release September 30, 2008
  12. ↑ Heinrich Löbbers: The outing has failed - Eggert, the allegations of sexual abuse back . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 20, 1995
  13. ^ Biedenkopf calls Hardraht to Saxony. In: The world . August 18, 1995, accessed July 31, 2017 .
  14. ↑ People at Maischberger, April 12, 2005, 11 p.m. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Rearview mirror: Der SPIEGEL reported… In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1995 ( online ).
  16. ↑ hospiz-ostsachsen.de
  17. ↑ Manfred Dworschak: A backpack for the last load. In: Spiegel Wissen 4/2012. October 30, 2012, accessed June 18, 2015 .
  18. ^ Posts by Heinz Eggert in the Kostblog - Comments from the box
  19. ↑ Tillich presents the Saxon Order of Merit , accessed on June 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eggert, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, State Minister in Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock