Holger Borner
Holger Börner (born February 7, 1931 in Wolfsanger ; † August 2, 2006 in Kassel ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1967 to 1972 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport (from 1969 to the Federal Minister of Transport and for Post and Telecommunications) and from 1976 to 1987 Prime Minister of the State of Hesse .
Life and work
After attending elementary and middle school learned Börner after the Second World War, the profession of concrete skilled worker . He actually wanted to become a journalist , but decided on a job where he could earn money faster. He became involved in the union early on and was most recently chairman of the works council of a Kassel construction company, for which he also worked as an auxiliary foreman .
Börner had been married since 1950 and had three children. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge Through Light for Peace in Kassel.
Political party
Börner joined the SPD in 1948, became a board member of the SPD Kassel in 1950 and was its deputy district chairman since 1956. From 1962 to 1963 he acted as national chairman of the Young Socialists , after having been the district chairman of the Falken in Kassel from 1948 to 1956 . From 1972 to 1976 he was federal manager of the SPD under the federal chairman Willy Brandt and from 1977 to 1987 state chairman of the SPD in Hesse . Prior to that, from 1971 to 1974 and from 1975 to 1978 he was chairman of the SPD district of Hesse-North. Börner was a member of the SPD's Federal Presidium from 1972 to 1988.
From December 1987 until his election as honorary chairman in January 2003, Börner was chairman of the SPD-affiliated Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . From 1995 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation .
MP
From 1956 to 1972 Börner was a member of the Kassel city council and from 1960 to 1969 he led the SPD parliamentary group .
In the 1957 Bundestag election, Börner was the youngest member of the German Bundestag at the age of 26 . Here he was from 1965 to June 21, 1967 (as the youngest committee chairman at the time) and from 1972 to 1976 chairman of the transport committee. He was a member of the Bundestag until 1976. Holger Börner has always entered the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Kassel.
Public offices
On April 12, 1967, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport in the cabinet of the grand coalition led by Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger . He also retained this office in the federal government headed by Willy Brandt from 1969 . On February 4, 1972, he resigned from this office to become federal manager of the SPD.
In October 1976 he was elected Prime Minister of the State of Hesse by an SPD- FDP coalition to succeed Albert Osswald after he had to resign as a result of the Helaba scandal . The state elections in September 1982 were dominated by federal politics. After the break of the social-liberal coalition, Börner's SPD posted “Treason in Bonn” and the FDP failed to meet the five percent hurdle . With the appearance of the Greens for the first time , there was no longer a majority capable of governing in the Hessian state parliament (the so-called “ Hessian conditions ”). Until the early elections in September 1983, Börner was in charge of an executive state government.
Holger Börner distanced himself from the Greens in the election campaign. In an interview with Spiegel in 1982, when asked whether he could even imagine sitting at a negotiating table with the Greens, he said: "You can be sure: such photos won't even be seen as a montage." A year later, Börner ruled out a collaboration with the Greens: “For me, the Greens are outside of any calculation. I am not only closing a coalition, but any cooperation with them. ”After the election he abandoned his statements and was re-elected Prime Minister in June 1984, tolerated by the Greens. In October 1985, a coalition with the Greens was finally formed. It was the first ever red-green coalition . At that time, Joschka Fischer joined the Börner cabinet as Minister of State for the Environment and Energy .
But as early as February 1987 the coalition broke up over the dispute over the operating license for the Hanau fuel element factory Alkem . Holger Börner dismissed Joschka Fischer as minister. In April 1987 there were then new elections , in which Börner no longer stood. After this election , a CDU-FDP coalition was formed under Walter Wallmann .
From November 1, 1986 to April 14, 1987, Börner was President of the Federal Council .
Honors
- On September 14, 1987, the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- In 1988 Börner became an honorary citizen of the city of Kassel .
- In 1987 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold on Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria .
- The Freemason lodges in Kassel, Zur Demokratie and Goethe zur Bruderliebe have made him an honorary member.
- Börner was also an honorary member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Bund active Democrats eV
- An underlay grape variety of the Geisenheim Research Center , which is the only rootstock resistant to phylloxera, was named after Börner.
- 1993 Awarded the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse
- 2000 Commander of the Loyalty Order
- 2017 honorary grave of the city of Kassel
Quotes
"If you don't do politics, it will be made with you."
"My name is Borner, I weigh 250 pounds and when I'm angry, double that."
The famous roof batten quotations exist in two versions:
“You know, today I think about public peace. 40 years ago on the construction site I would have answered an attack on myself with the roof batten. "
“I regret that my high office forbids me to hit these guys in the face myself. In the past, on the construction site, things like that were done with the roof batten. "
Publications
- Ernst Schellenberg as a parliamentary instructor. Experiences of a young MP. In: Reinhart Bartholomäi : Social policy after 1945. History and analyzes. Ernst Schellenberg on his 70th birthday, Bonn 1977, pages 17 to 20.
Cabinets
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 217 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 82.
Web links
- Literature on Holger Börner in the Hessian Bibliography
- Literature by and about Holger Börner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Borner, Holger. Hessian biography. (As of February 7, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel from August 16, 1982
- ↑ Die Welt, September 21, 1983
- ↑ A parricide on installments , article from February 13, 1987 by Gerhard Spörl on Zeit Online
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
- ↑ HNA: City honors Kassel politicians, persecuted people and poets with graves of honor , accessed March 27, 2017
- ↑ Quoted from http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/holger-boerner-starb-an-krebs-rot-gruener-gruendervater-ist-tot,10810590,10408378.html
- ^ HR On the death of Holger Börner. ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ in an interview in May 1982 with the "Bunten Illustrierte". The wording was confirmed by the editorial staff; (see also Frankfurter Rundschau of May 22, 1982)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borner, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB, Prime Minister of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfsanger |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 2006 |
| Place of death | kassel |