Hermann Heinemann
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Hermann Heinemann (born June 24, 1928 in Dortmund ; † November 15, 2005 in Iserlohn ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).
Career
After participating in the Second World War and then being a prisoner of war , he completed an apprenticeship in banking and was involved in the ÖTV trade union . He joined the SPD in 1951, became chairman of the party's city association in Dortmund, and from 1975 headed the important SPD district of Western Westphalia . During this time he was the mentor of Franz Müntefering and was also a member of the SPD federal party executive. From March 1983 to July 1984 he was a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Commission for Economic and Financial Affairs.
On June 5, 1985, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau appointed him to succeed Friedhelm Farthmann in the office of Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs . During his tenure in July 1987, against massive opposition from the CDU , Heinemann initiated the first model experiment with methadone in the Federal Republic in order to curb and fight drug crime. In addition, he warned against a negative list when distributing drugs , since in his opinion such a list does not stop the cost increases and unilaterally burden socially disadvantaged people.
After the political change in the GDR , Heinemann demanded quick help for the local population and resolutely opposed the proposal to pay return premiums to GDR emigrants. In addition, in the early 1990s he spoke out against private co-payments for drugs and advocated prevention strategies against AIDS .
At the end of June 1992, Heinemann no longer ran for the SPD chairmanship in the Western Westphalia district and handed over the office to Franz Müntefering . He supported the private “Development and Research Center for Microtherapy” ( EFMT ) in Bochum , which was to be funded with grants of 26 million DM from state funds, and thus came under public criticism (“script affair”). However, the result of an established state parliament investigation committee exonerated him in retrospect. In this context, he was criticized by established radiologists who were denied a comparable windfall in their university institutes and resigned from his post as minister on October 9, 1992. Here, too, his successor was Müntefering on December 18, 1992. Hermann Heinemann was a member of the SPD for 54 years.
From 1971 to 1985 Heinemann was managing director of the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund and from 1991 to 2004 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia in Bad Oeynhausen , of which he became honorary chairman. There he had a decisive influence on the growth and patient-oriented corporate policy of the center.
At the end of 2005 he was still criticizing the circumstances that led to Müntefering's resignation from the SPD party leadership.
Heinemann lived in Dortmund when he was politically active, and later retired in the Hennen district of Iserlohn .
Honors
- 1982: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1987: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1990: Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Bernd Faulenbach , Stefan Goch , Günther Högl, Karsten Rudolph , Uwe Schledorn: Social democracy in transition: the district of Western Westphalia 1893–2001 . 4th edition. Essen: Klartext, 2001 ISBN 3-89861-062-4 , pp. 286f.
Web links
- Entry on Hermann Heinemann in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Hammelmann, Sven Northeim: The self-service republic . Profiles: Our scandal politicians and their affairs. Vito von Eichborn GmbH & Co. Verlag AG, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8218-1189-7 , Hermann Heinemann: How do you prepare for an investigative committee ?, p. 65 .
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Otto Schmidt (1953–1954) | Johann Platte (1954–1956) | Heinrich Hemsath (1956–1958) | Johann Ernst (1950–1953 (only work), 1958–1959) | Konrad Grundmann (1959–1966) | Werner Figgen (1966–1975) | Friedhelm Farthmann (1975–1985) | Hermann Heinemann (1985–1992) | Franz Müntefering (1992–1995) | Axel Horstmann (1995–1998) | Ilse Brusis (1998-2000) | Harald Schartau (2000-2005) | Karl-Josef Laumann (2005–2010) | Guntram Schneider (2010–2015) | Rainer Schmeltzer (2015–2017) | Karl-Josef Laumann (since 2017)
Werner Figgen (1970-1975) | Friedhelm Farthmann (1975–1985) | Hermann Heinemann (1985–1992) | Franz Müntefering (1992–1995) | Axel Horstmann (1995–1998) | Birgit Fischer (1998-2005) | Karl-Josef Laumann (2005–2010) | Barbara Steffens (2010–2017) | Karl-Josef Laumann (since 2017)
Fritz Henßler (1946–1953) | Fritz Steinhoff (1954–1965) | Werner Figgen (1965–1974) | Hermann Heinemann (1974–1992) | Franz Müntefering (1992–1998) | Joachim Poß (1998–2001) | Norbert Römer (2002–2018) | Marc Herter (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinemann, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Iserlohn |