Werner Holtfort
Werner Holtfort (born May 25, 1920 in Hanover ; † April 16, 1992 ibid) was a German lawyer , lawyer and social democratic politician .
Life
After participating in the war and studying, Holtfort settled in Hanover in 1955 as a lawyer and notary. He was a member of the board and vice-president of the Celle Bar Association and a member of the federal board of the Humanist Union . In 1977 he resigned from the Hanover Lawyers' Association together with 16 colleagues due to differing views on the role of lawyer.
In 1979 he was the founder and first chairman of the Republican Bar Association . The future Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder completed his legal clerkship in Holtfort's office . Since 1970 member of the SPD , in which he saw himself on their left wing, he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 1982 to 1990 . Together with the journalist Eckart Spoo and others, he wrote numerous CDU and Ernst Albrecht publications. In 1985, Holtfort co-founded the Adolph Freiherr von Knigge Society in Hanover.
His estate is administered by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover.
In 2003, the state capital of Hanover named a path in the Zoo district after Werner Holtfort.
Tomb
Werner Holtfort's tomb can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover, Department 25 , Gravege number 166–167 . his funeral motto is: In dubio pro libertate ( When in doubt, for freedom).
Holtfort Foundation
The Holtfort Foundation as sole heir is dedicated to legal training and the political struggle for a democratic legal system. In accordance with the provisions of the will, it regularly awards the Werner Holtfort Prize for outstanding achievements in the defense of civil rights.
Publications
- with Eckart Spoo , Hasso Düvel and Wolfgang Bittner Sturmfest und erderwachsen. Black stories about Ernst Albrecht and the CDU. Edited by Wolfgang Bittner (among others). Göttingen: Steidl 1980. ISBN 3-88243-010-9 (employee)
- Behind the facades. Stories from a German city. Werner Holtfort (among others). Göttingen: Steidl 1982. ISBN 3-88243-014-1
- Disobedience as a civic duty. A Republican Bar Association's guidebook on what to do in the face of the deployment of the new American medium-range missiles in the Federal Republic. Hanover 1983.
- The Guelphs and their treasure. Stories about Ernst August and Ernst Albrecht. Werner Holtfort (among others). Göttingen: Steidl 1984. ISBN 3-88243-026-5
- Prosecution by lawyers in the Federal Republic. The Jörg Lang case. Hanover: Republican Lawyers' Association 1986.
- Learning processes of a German. In: Against barbarism. Essays in honor of Robert MW Kempner. Edited by Rainer Eisfeld (among others). Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum Verlag 1989, pp. 37-50. ISBN 3-610-08537-1 (on Holtfort's political and legal disputes in the Hanover Bar Association)
- Sylvia Remé (ed.): Collected works from the snappy lamb. Satires and glosses by Werner Holtfort. jmb, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-940970-49-7 .
- Lower Saxony State Parliament for twelve months. An accountability report . Hanover: self-published 1983.
- The [second to seventh] year in the Lower Saxony state parliament. An accountability report . Hanover: self-published 1984–1990. (Everything is available in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library)
literature
- Margarete Fabricius-Brand (inter alia) (Ed.): Legal policy “with an upright walk”. Werner Holtfort on his 70th birthday. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-1986-0 .
- Jürgen Seifert : In memory of Werner Holtfort (1920-1992). - In: Critical Justice . Vol. 25 (1992), pp. 240-241. ISSN 0023-4834 .
- Klaus Mlynek in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 176.
- Sylvia Remé (Ed.): Werner Holtfort. Biography of a lawyer and politician in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century in Lower Saxony. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-89975-734-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Holtfort in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holtfort, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1992 |
| Place of death | Hanover |