Helmut Rohde

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Helmut Rohde (1975)

Helmut Rohde (born November 9, 1925 in Hanover , † April 16, 2016 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German politician ( SPD ). Helmut Rohde was Federal Minister for Education and Science from 1974 to 1978 . Herbert Wehner described him as an "architect and pioneer of the welfare state".

Life

Helmut Rohde, son of August and Marie Rohde, grew up in the working class of Hanover-Linden . His father was a social democrat and a trade unionist. As a welder and shipyard worker in submarine construction, he became a shop steward of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany USPD in Kiel in 1918 . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, his father was unemployed for years because of his commitment.

After attending elementary school, Rohde was granted access to middle school due to good performance . In 1943 he was committed to the Reich Labor Service , then as a Wehrmacht soldier he participated in the war. In 1945 he returned from captivity and worked briefly for Continental AG in Hanover, but switched to journalism. With the support of the Printing and Paper Union, Rohde was able to work for Fritz Heine in the press office of the SPD party executive in Hanover. In 1947 he was trained as an editorial trainee at the German Press Service dpd . He was then able to work as a Hanover editor at the German Press Agency .

From 1950 to 1953 the Catholic Rohde studied political and economic sciences at the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven- Rüstersiel, with Wolfgang Abendroth , Friedrich Lenz , Walter Bogs , Horst Jecht , Dieter Schewe and Rüdiger Altmann , among others .

From 1953 to 1957 he was press officer in the Ministry of Social Affairs of Lower Saxony with Minister Heinrich Albertz . State Secretary Walter Auerbach in particular aroused his interest in social policy.

Rohde was a board member of the Society for Social Progress and a member of the board of trustees of the Hilda Heinemann Foundation . He held a teaching position at the Dortmund Social Academy and had worked at the Universities of Hanover and Bochum since 1985 , and from 1994 he was honorary professor at the University of Bremen .

politics

Political party

Rohde had been a member of the SPD since 1945. He was chairman of the Hanoverian Young Socialists and deputy chairman of the Hanover local association and member of the board of the SPD district of Hanover.

From 1973 to 1984 Rohde was federal chairman of the SPD working group for workers' issues (AfA) and a member of the social policy committee of the SPD party executive, of which he was a member from 1975 to 1983.

MP

From 1957 to 1987 Rohde was a member of the German Bundestag without interruption . In 1957 and 1961 he entered parliament via the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony and thereafter he always won the direct mandate in the constituency of Hanover II . From 1979 to 1983 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group .

In addition, Rohde was a member of the European Parliament from 1964 to 1965 and was committed to the European Social Union and a European social order.

Public offices

From 1969 to 1974 he was in the cabinet of Willy Brandt's Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs von Walter Arendt and played a key role in drafting the Employment Promotion Act .

In the first cabinet of Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , he took over the office of Federal Minister for Education and Science on May 16, 1974. During his term of office, the decision on the University Framework Act and other measures such as the Vocational Training Act , Training Place Promotion Act , BAföG and promotion of inter-company training facilities were made . The numerus clausus was canceled on his initiative.

In the course of a major government reshuffle, he resigned from the federal cabinet on February 16, 1978 and, as a parliamentarian, was committed to the socio-economic structure of society, such as the participation of employers in social security contributions.

honors and awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Helmut Rohde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Angela Merkel: Obituary for Helmut Rohde. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Helmut Rohde, obituary notice, General-Anzeiger Bonn, memorial candles, condolences, photos | Mobile website. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Helmut Rohde . Curriculum vitae in the “Archive of Social Democracy” of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on April 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ SPD / Employees: Central source of strength . Der Spiegel 39/1973 of September 24, 1973, pp. 57-58, accessed on April 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
  6. ^ SPD Sankt Augustin mourns retired Federal Minister D. Prof. Helmut Rohde. April 24, 2016, accessed on March 28, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2016