Heribert Reitz
Heribert Reitz (born June 1, 1930 in Offheim , today a district of Limburg an der Lahn ; † March 11, 2018 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and minister of state in several Hessian state governments.
Life and work
After graduating from high school in 1951, Reitz joined the senior service of the Deutsche Bundespost and worked there until 1971, most recently as post chief inspector. In addition to his ministerial office, he was later chairman of the supervisory board of Flughafen AG Frankfurt am Main .
Political party
Reitz joined the SPD in 1957, became deputy chairman of the SPD district of Hesse-South in 1976 and at the same time a member of the state executive committee of the SPD Hesse .
MP
Reitz had been a council member of the Offheim community since 1960 and was elected to the district council of Limburg in 1968. In the course of the territorial reform in 1974 he became a council member of the city of Limburg and a member of the district council of the Limburg-Weilburg district . He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1962 to 1991, where he was chairman of the budget committee from 1968 to 1970 and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1970 to 1972.
Government offices
On April 11, 1972, Reitz was appointed finance minister of Hesse to the state government led by Prime Minister Albert Osswald . He also remained in office in the subsequent government headed by Prime Minister Holger Börner . After the break of the social-liberal coalition, he also took over the provisional management of the Ministry of Economics and Technology on September 28, 1982. Since Reitz strictly refused to work with the Greens , he left the government on July 3, 1984 at his own request.
Cabinets
Reitz was a member of the following cabinets
- Osswald II cabinet (1972–1974)
- Cabinet Osswald III (1974–1976)
- Cabinet Börner I (1976–1978)
- Cabinet Börner II (1978–1984)
Honors
- 1980: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1990: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal
- 2000: Hessian Order of Merit
Web links
- Reitz, Heribert. Hessian biography. (As of June 13, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Obituary of the Hessian State Chancellery, accessed on March 12, 2018
- History of the chairmen of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament since 1946
- Literature by and about Heribert Reitz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heribert Reitz is dead. SPD district association Limburg-Weilburg, March 11, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018 .
Wilhelm Mattes (Greater Hesse, 1945–1946) | Robert Philipp Nöll von der Nahmer (Greater Hesse, 1946) | Werner Hilpert (1947–1951) | Heinrich Troeger (1951–1956) | Wilhelm Conrad (1956–1964) | Albert Osswald (1964–1969) | Erwin Lang (1969–1970) | Rudi Arndt (1970–1972) | Heribert Reitz (1972–1984) | Hans Krollmann (1984–1987) | Manfred Kanther (1987–1991) | Annette Fugmann-Heesing (1991–1994) | Ernst Welteke (1994–1995) | Karl Starzacher (1995–1999) | Karlheinz Weimar (1999–2010) | Thomas Schäfer ( 2010–2020) | Michael Boddenberg (since 2020)
Rudolf Mueller (1945–1946) | Werner Hilpert (1946) | Harald Koch (1946–1949) | Albert Wagner (1949–1951) | Heinrich Fischer (1951–1955) | Gotthard Franke (1955–1963) | Albert Osswald (1963–1964) | Rudi Arndt (1964–1970) | Heinz-Herbert Karry (1970–1981) | Klaus-Jürgen Hoffie (1981–1982) | Ulrich Steger (1984–1987) | Alfred Schmidt (1987-1991) | Ernst Welteke (1991–1994) | Lothar Klemm (1994–1999) | Dieter Posch (1999-2003) | Alois Rhiel (2003-2009) | Dieter Posch (2009–2012) | Florian Rentsch (2012–2014) | Tarek Al-Wazir (since 2014)
Rudolf Freidhof (1946–1947) | Albert Wagner (1947–1949) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1949–1953) | Heinrich Schneider (1953–1955) | Ludwig Bodenbender (1955–1958) | Georg Buch (1958–1960) | Willi Zinnkann (1960–1961) | Rudi Arndt (1961–1964) | Johannes Strelitz (1964–1967) | Erwin Lang (1967–1969) | Werner Best (1969–1970) | Heribert Reitz (1970–1972) | Hans Krollmann (1972–1973) | Willi Görlach (1973–1974) | Armin Clauss (1974-1976) | Karl Schneider (1976–1980) | Horst Winterstein (1980–1984) | Ernst Welteke (1984–1987) | Hans Krollmann (1987–1988) | Ernst Welteke (1988–1991) | Lothar Klemm (1991–1994) | Armin Clauss (1994-2001) | Gerhard Bökel (2001–2003) | Jürgen Walter (2003–2007) | Andrea Ypsilanti (2007-2009) | Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (2009–2019) | Nancy Faeser (since 2019)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reitz, Heribert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German post office worker and politician (SPD), MdL, Hessian State Minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Offheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 2018 |
| Place of death | Limburg on the Lahn |