Hermann Rudolf Marx

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Hermann Rudolf Marx (born October 22, 1924 in Erfurt ; † December 31, 2017 in Bonn ) was a lawyer , ministerial director and federal manager of the FDP .

Life

Marx took 1947 in Jena , then to the Soviet zone of occupation belonging, a law school on. He joined the LDP and became chairman of the LDP college group. Later he was deputy chairman of the youth council at the LDP central board in East Berlin and chairman of the LDP committee for university and student issues. In March 1952 he was arrested as a result of his opposition work and sentenced to a long prison term, but released early in October 1956 and then lived in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Marx joined the FDP and, as a lawyer, took over the role of the party's judicial officer . From 1960 to 1964 he was head of the administration and organization department in the federal office and then head of the companies and associations department. In 1969 he was also acting federal manager alongside Hans Friderichs , after he had been appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture , Viticulture and Forests of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , and introduced his successor, Volrad Deneke , who had been appointed by the FDP federal executive committee in November 1969 . In terms of programs, he primarily influenced Germany's policy .

From 1970 to 1979, Marx was employed in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , most recently as Ministerial Director and Head of Department, where he was temporarily seconded to the Federal Chancellery . He was from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1983 to 1987 Vice President of the Association of Liberal Academics .

Documents about Marx's activities for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

literature

  • Volker Erhard (Ed.): Commitment to freedom and democracy: Contributions to the history of the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD) . Bussert and Stadeler, Jena 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituaries in the General-Anzeiger Bonn. January 3, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  2. ^ FDP district association Jena-Saale-Holzland: Hermann Marx turns 80 October 21, 2004, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
  3. Reinhard Schiffers (edit.): FDP federal board. The Liberals chaired by Erich Mende. Minutes of meetings 1960–1967 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, passim.
  4. Peter Juling : “Manne” Marx turned 85 . In: VLA -Rundbrief , 4/2009.