Helmut Kasimier

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Helmut Kasimier (born October 17, 1926 in Breslau ; † April 16, 2013 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( SPD ). Kasimier was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1963 to 1986 ; from 1967 to 1974 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament and from the state elections in 1974 to the end of the social-liberal coalition in January 1976 ( cabinet Kubel II ) Lower Saxony's finance minister .

Life and work

Kasimier was born the son of a bricklayer foreman. After attending elementary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in wholesale. He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and took part in the Second World War as a soldier in 1944/45 . In April 1945 he suffered a war wound, was first taken to a hospital in Lübeck and later transferred from there to Hanover .

Kasimier initially worked as an unskilled worker in the construction industry, then hired himself out as a newspaper packer and later worked as an employee in wholesale. After joining the SPD, he worked as party secretary from 1948. In 1963 he was elected to the state parliament. After retiring from active politics, he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR).

politics

Kasimier joined the SPD in 1947 and worked as party secretary in Hanover from 1948 to 1963. He had been the sub-district chairman since 1947 and was later elected district chairman of the Young Socialists in Hanover.

Kasimier was a council member of the city of Hanover from 1952 to 1963. He was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1963 , where he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1967 to 1974.

In the disputes within the Hanoverian SPD between right and left that had arisen in the late 1960s, he always took the position of mediator. When asked whether he was left or right in the SPD, which was put to all candidates at a party congress of the Hanoverian SPD, he replied: “I am Rumpf”.

Kasimier was appointed Minister of Finance in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Alfred Kubel on July 10, 1974 . After the Prime Minister's resignation for reasons of age, he was to succeed him in office in January 1976. Although the social-liberal coalition with 78 members had a thin majority of one vote, its election failed because of votes against from the SPD / FDP coalition. Instead of voting in full for him, on January 14, 1976, he received only 75 votes from the ranks of the social-liberal government alliance, while the CDU opponent Ernst Albrecht drew 77 MPs on his side. Since the vote did not result in the required majority for any candidate, the election was repeated one day later. This time Albrecht got one more vote, while only 74 parliamentarians voted for Kasimier and he withdrew from the election.

With a new candidate, Federal Building Minister Karl Ravens , the SPD tried a third attempt on February 6, 1976 and again failed due to a lack of votes from the social-liberal coalition, while Albrecht was elected Prime Minister with 79 votes; the SPD and FDP had to go into opposition despite an “official” majority in the state parliament. Kasimier himself resigned from the office of finance minister with the end of the SPD / FDP state government on February 13, 1976. In 1977 the FDP entered into a coalition with the CDU, which gave the new government a majority in the state parliament.

literature

  • Rolf Wernstedt : Straightforwardness and independence: Helmut Kasimier , in: SPD parliamentary group of Lower Saxony (ed.): 70 years of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony parliament , Hanover (no year, 2017), without ISBN

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e SPD parliamentary group in Lower Saxony (ed.): 70 years of the SPD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony parliament , Hanover (no year, 2017), without ISBN, p. 28
  2. ↑ Federal press portal : Lower Saxony state government mourns Helmut Kasimier , accessed on February 28, 2020
  3. ↑ Rolf Wernstedt : Straightforwardness and independence: Helmut Kasimier , in: SPD-Landtag faction Lower Saxony (ed.): 70 years of the SPD faction in the Lower Saxony Landtag , Hanover (no year, 2017), without ISBN, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Kasimier, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2013
Place of death Hanover