Heinz Starke

Heinz Starke (born February 27, 1911 in Schweidnitz , Province of Silesia ; † January 31, 2001 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( FDP , later CSU ) and from 1961 to 1962 Federal Minister of Finance .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1931, Starke studied law and political science , which he completed in 1935 with the first state examination and in 1940 with the second state examination . In 1935 at the University of Jena his promotion to Dr. jur. with work Liability for game damage according to the Reich Hunting Act of July 3, 1934 . From 1940 to 1945 he participated as a soldier in the Second World War , most recently as infantry captain , in part.

After the end of the war he worked from 1946 to 1949 for the economic administration of the British zone and the administration for economy in Minden , Frankfurt am Main and Bonn . From 1948 to 1949 he was the policy advisor for economic policy issues to Ludwig Erhard .

From 1950 to 1961 he was the managing director of the Upper Franconian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bayreuth .

Political party

Before 1945, Starke was a member of the NSDAP . From 1953 to 1970 Starke was a member of the FDP . From 1962 to 1970 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee, from 1964 to 1970 also the FDP state executive committee in Bavaria . On October 9, 1970, he left the FDP in protest against Walter Scheel 's Ostpolitik and became a member of the CSU.

MP

From 1953 to 1980 Starke was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was from 1965 to January 17, 1967 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group . On October 9, 1970 he joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in protest against the policies of the social-liberal coalition .

Starke entered the Bundestag in 1953 as a directly elected member of the Hof constituency and in 1976 as a directly elected member of the Bayreuth constituency , otherwise always via the Bavarian state list .

He was also a member of the European Parliament from 1958 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1979 .

Public offices

After the general election in 1961 , on November 14, 1961, he was appointed Federal Minister of Finance in the federal government led by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . In the course of the Spiegel affair , he resigned on November 19, 1962 together with the other FDP federal ministers.

Awards

1964: Bavarian Order of Merit
1973: Large Federal Cross of Merit

literature

Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 240ff.

Individual evidence

↑ Dealing with the Nazi past (PDF) German Bundestag. December 14, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Strong, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (FDP, CSU), MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweidnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 2001
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Dealing with the Nazi past (PDF) German Bundestag. December 14, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2017.