Helga Wex

Helga Wex (1972)

Candidate poster for the 1976 federal election

Helga Wex (born Schimke , born July 5, 1924 in Buxtehude ; † January 9, 1986 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German CDU politician.

Career

Helga Wex came from a social democratic family; her father Hugo Schimke was active in local politics for the SPD in Buxtehude. After studying philosophy, Helga Wex (Schimke) did her doctorate in Hamburg in 1950 on the subject of the parting motif in German love poetry from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century . She then completed additional courses at the European College in Bruges and at the Academy for International Law in The Hague .

From 1953 to 1957 Wex was a ministerial assistant in the representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal government. She joined the CDU in 1961 and was a member of the city council of Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1961 to 1973. There she lived with her husband Günther Wex and two children.

She became a member of the 5th German Bundestag on April 28, 1967, which she left again at the end of 1969. She moved into the Bundestag again at the beginning of the 7th electoral term in 1972, to which she belonged until her death on January 9, 1986 in his 10th electoral term. It reached the Bundestag via the state list of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU.

From 1969 to 1977 she was Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the CDU and, as the successor to Aenne Brauksiepe, a member of the Presidium.

From 1971 to 1986 she was chairwoman of the CDU women's association, today's Women's Union . In this office she declared “the end of modesty” for the female part of the CDU and called for greater participation of women in the party. In doing so, she brought up topics such as the compatibility of family and work and won the right to apply at party congresses for the women's association, which he finally received in 1975.

In 1979 she ran within the parliamentary group against Richard von Weizsäcker for Vice- President of the Bundestag, but lost clearly. In 1983 she became deputy chairwoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

In 1984 she became the coordinator for Franco-German relations at the Foreign Office and held this position until her death. In this position she campaigned for the expansion of mutual language teaching in France and Germany.

During the CDU's first party donation affair about illegal party funding through the Citizens' Association , Helga Wex u. a. the Gerling Group to donate funds to the tax office and the federal party directly to their CDU district association Mülheim an der Ruhr.

In Buxtehude a place is named after Helga Wex; she also received the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

literature

• Frank Bösch: Power and loss of power. The history of the CDU . Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05601-3

Other sources

• City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr: holdings 1550/117; Stock 2000/9/7; Stock 1440 / 90.00

Web links

Commons : Helga Wex  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Helga Wex in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SPD local association Buxtehude Tackle instead of chatter - 1918 - 1933. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018 ; accessed on April 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Achim Schwarze: Thin board drill in Bonn - From the dissertations of our elite. P. 108; Eichborn-Verlag Frankfurt / Main, 1984
3. ↑ Bösch, p. 169