Herbert Schnoor
Herbert Schnoor (born June 1, 1927 in Aurich ; † June 20, 2021 in Werder (Havel) ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( SPD ). From 1980 to 1995 he was Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the state parliament there .
Life
Herbert Schnoor was born in 1927 as the son of a primary school teacher and went through his school education in Aurich and Moordorf , which he had to interrupt from 1944 due to his obligation to serve in the Reich and military service . After graduating from high school in 1947, he began studying law at the universities of Würzburg and Göttingen in 1948, completing the first state examination in 1952 and the second state examination in 1957. In 1959 he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD (Dissertation: The Northwest German Forestry Associations in the State Administrative Code ).
In 1958 Schnoor joined the administrative service of Lower Saxony as an assessor . It was a year later Regierungsassessor and worked from 1961 to 1963 as a Councilor for the district government Stade . He then worked for a short time at the Federal Ministry of Health , where he was promoted to the senior government council. In 1964 he switched to the administrative service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , initially as a consultant in the Ministry of Culture . He joined the SPD in 1965 and was personal advisor to the Minister of Education, Fritz Holthoff , from 1966 to 1969 . In 1965 he was appointed government director , 1967 ministerial councilor and 1968 senior ministerial councilor. In 1969 he was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior as a ministerial director , where he headed the personnel department for a year.
On July 28, 1970 Schnoor was appointed to the government of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Heinz Kühn as State Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Research under Minister Johannes Rau . Then Kühn entrusted him on June 4, 1975 with the management of the State Chancellery , which he held until 1980. In the state elections in 1980 , in which the SPD won an absolute majority of the seats, Schnoor entered the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia as a member of the state list and was appointed Minister of the Interior on June 4, 1980 as the successor to Burkhard Hirsch (FDP). After Finance Minister Diether Posser resigned , he also took over the post of Deputy Prime Minister on May 1, 1988. In the state elections in 1985 and 1990 , he won a direct mandate for the Düsseldorf I state electoral district .
During his tenure as Minister of the Interior, Schnoor was a member and then a deputy member of the Federal Council from 1980 to 1985 . In the 1980s he rejected the tightening of the criminal law on demonstrations promoted by Federal Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann and instead advocated a more liberal contrast program.
During his tenure in August 1988, the Gladbeck hostage drama fell . As a result, Schnoor defended the actions of the North Rhine-Westphalia police , but after the resignation of Bremen's Senator for the Interior, Bernd Meyer, he was increasingly in trouble because he had not resigned like his counterpart. Supported by Prime Minister Rau, he had to answer to a parliamentary committee of inquiry after an application by the CDU opposition in the state parliament in February 1989. There he was accused of underestimating the danger of the hostage-takers. He countered the allegations with the fact that there were no wrong decisions, but “only a lack of right ones” and remained in office despite numerous requests for resignation. In June 1989 he was acquitted of responsibility for the course of the police operation. The Bochum public prosecutor's office rejected the initiation of preliminary proceedings for negligent homicide.
Schnoor sat down in North Rhine-Westphalia together with Gernot Wießner of the right to remain Yazidis and traveled in 1989 along with a delegation to Turkey to get yourself a picture of the persecution of the Yazidis to make.
In the early 1990s, Schnoor called for liberalization of asylum policy. In view of the increasing right-wing radicalism, he changed his stance on the de-escalation strategy during demonstrations. In connection with the assassination attempt in Solingen , he had to admit in the summer of 1994 that the constitution protection had installed the head of a martial arts school as an undercover agent in the right-wing extremist scene in Solingen.
In the state elections in May 1995 Schnoor ran again for his constituency, but was defeated by the CDU politician Heinz Hardt and left the state parliament as a member. As announced at the end of 1994, he left the state government on July 17, 1995 for reasons of age as Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister. Franz-Josef Kniola was appointed as his successor as Minister of the Interior, and Michael Vesper took over the office of Deputy Prime Minister .
After his withdrawal from politics in North Rhine-Westphalia, Schnoor took up a position as a lawyer specializing in public law in a law firm in Düsseldorf . In addition, he supported the Brandenburg Interior Minister Alwin Ziel in setting up the state and local administrations .
Herbert Schnoor was married and the father of two daughters. He died in June 2021 at the age of 94 in Werder (Havel) .
Honors
- Gustav-Heinemann-Bürgerpreis on May 21, 1989 by the party chairman Hans-Jochen Vogel (together with the Refugee Council West / Berlin).
- Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , November 6, 1997
- Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg , June 14, 2010.
- Honorary award of the GEA (Association of Ezidischer Akademiker) for special services to the Ezidischer community, 2014.
literature
- Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1995 from December 4, 1995
See also
- Cabinet Kühn II - Cabinet Kühn III - Cabinet Rau I - Cabinet Rau II - Cabinet Rau III - Cabinet Rau IV
Web links
- Cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Herbert Schnoor at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Then the police can pack up". Interview with NRW Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor (SPD) about his colleague Friedrich Zimmermann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1983, pp. 24-25 ( online - 12 September 1983 ).
- ↑ White raven . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1987, pp. 29-31 ( Online - Dec. 21, 1987 ).
- ↑ Uly Foerster, Georg Bönisch: "The police must act". North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor (SPD) on the police operation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1988, pp. 24-27 ( Online - Aug. 22, 1988 ).
- ↑ We can't cope with that . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1988, pp. 88-94 ( online - August 29, 1988 ).
- ↑ Three minutes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1988, pp. 30-31 ( Online - Nov. 21, 1988 ).
- ↑ Good person . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1988, pp. 25-26 ( Online - Nov. 28, 1988 ).
- ↑ Not desirable . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1989, pp. 23-25 ( Online - Feb. 13, 1989 ).
- ↑ Herbert Schnoor's reply to: “Not desirable” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1989, pp. 34 ( Online - Mar. 20, 1989 ).
- ↑ Herbert Schnoor: Unforgotten in: The Lord creates justice and justice . Festschrift for Hans Engel . Wuppertal 2001, pp. 59-67.
- ↑ International GEA Conference. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Prohibit marches . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1993, pp. 56 ( Online - Oct. 11, 1993 ).
- ↑ Weeping for Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1994, pp. 18-22 ( online - 11 April 1994 ).
- ^ Right-wing radical thugs. In: Focus 19/1994. May 9, 1994, accessed October 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Political GAU . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1994, pp. 28-29 ( online - 6 June 1994 ).
- ↑ Political Stammtisch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1994, pp. 35-36 ( Online - June 13, 1994 ).
- ↑ Thomas Kutschaty on the death of Herbert Schnoor: Architect and defender of the liberal constitutional state on the pages of www.nrwspd.de, accessed on June 21, 2021
- ↑ The Ministry of the Interior mourns retired State Minister Herbert Schnoor on the pages of land.nrw.de, accessed on June 22, 2021
- ^ Press release X / 1989 of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ International GEA Conference. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schnoor, Herbert |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, civil servant and politician (SPD), MdL |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurich |
DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 2021 |
PLACE OF DEATH | Werder (Havel) |