Heinz Kreutzmann

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Heinz Kreutzmann (born September 23, 1919 in Darmstadt ; † November 14, 2005 ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE , GDP , from 1967 SPD ). From 1965 to 1983 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1979 to 1982 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Internal German Relations .

Life and work

Kreutzmann was the son of a professional soldier and military musician. He attended the Alte Kurfürstliche Gymnasium in Bensheim and the Gymnasium in Dieburg , passed his Abitur in 1938 and then did military service. From 1939 he participated as a soldier in the Second World War, from which he returned in 1941 due to a serious wound. In 1942 he began to study history, art history, German and theater studies at the University of Frankfurt , which he had to interrupt in 1943 due to his assignment to garrison service in Egerland . Until the end of the war in 1945, when he was taken prisoner by the US, he was stationed as a garrison soldier in Budweis and Marienbad . He was prisoner of war initially in Straßberg and from May until his release in July 1945 in Diez .

Kreutzmann, who had been expelled from Czechoslovakia with his family in 1945 , initially earned his living as an unskilled worker in a metal goods factory. In 1946 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , which he started in Frankfurt and graduated in 1948. From 1948 to 1958 he worked as an editor and editor-in-chief at daily and weekly newspapers in Munich , Bielefeld and Bonn . In 1951 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Göttingen with the work Braunschweig and the German dualism 1848–1866 . From 1958 Kreutzmann was a tourism officer in the Hessian Ministry of Economics , based in Wiesbaden . In 1961 he was promoted to government councilor, in 1962 to senior government councilor and in 1965 to government director. Most recently he took on duties as cabinet and press officer in the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Political party

Kreutzmann joined the displaced party GB / BHE in 1950. He became district chairman in Detmold and was deputy state chairman of the party in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1956 to 1957 he acted as press officer for the GB / BHE parliamentary group . From 1958 he was a member of the GB / BHE party presidium. After the merger of the DP with the GB / BHE to form GDP, he became a member of the executive federal party executive in 1961. From 1965 until he left the party in 1966 he was deputy state chairman of GDP Hessen.

In January 1967 Kreutzmann joined the SPD. He was a member of the board of the SPD sub-district Schwalm-Eder and a member of the board of the SPD district Hessen-Nord.

MP

In the 1950s Kreutzmann worked for the GB / BHE city councilor in Lage (Lippe) .

From 1965 to 1983 Kreutzmann was a member of the German Bundestag . After initially as a guest of the SPD faction he belonged as a GDP-member of the Bundestag, he joined the on 1 February 1967. SPD parliamentary group one.

From 1965 to June 1967 he was a member of the Committee on All German and Berlin Issues and the Committee on War Damage and Persecution, from June 1972 to 1976 and again from May 1982 to 1983 a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and from 1969 to February 1979 a member of the Committee for intra-German relationships. From June 16, 1982 until his resignation from the Bundestag in 1983, he was chairman of the committee for the postal and telecommunications system.

Heinz Kreutzmann entered the Bundestag in 1965 as a member of the GDP via the Hessian state list of the SPD. In the Bundestag elections in 1969 , 1972 and 1976 he won the direct mandate for the SPD in constituency 129 (Fritzlar-Homberg), in the Bundestag election in 1980 the direct mandate in constituency 127 (Schwalm-Eder) .

Public offices

From 1963 to 1969 Kreutzmann was State Commissioner for the promotion of the Hessian emergency areas and zone border districts. On February 7, 1979, Kreutzmann was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Internal German Relations in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( Schmidt II cabinet and Schmidt III cabinet ). On the occasion of a cabinet reshuffle, he resigned on April 28, 1982.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prominent members of the GDP switch to the SPD, January 13, 1967. Contemporary history in Hesse (as of January 13, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kreutzmann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GB / BHE, GDP, SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2005