Horst Ferdinand
Horst Ferdinand (born April 4, 1921 in Ettenheim ; † December 31, 2004 near Siegburg ) was a German stenographer .
Career
Ferdinand came as the son of the married couple Johann Baptist and Franziska Ferdinand, geb. Dilger, (1881–1974) to the world. He attended elementary schools in Ettenheim and Freiburg, and from 1931 the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg. In 1932 he moved to the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, where he graduated from high school in 1939. In the same year he became German master of shorthand .
After serving in the war and as a prisoner of war, he studied musicology, philosophy, psychology and German studies at the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn from 1948 to 1952 and received his doctorate in Bonn. phil. This was followed by a part-time study of law in Bonn from 1954 to 1956 and a part-time study of Catholic theology from 1959 to 1963.
At the same time he worked from 1948 as a stenographer in the Baden state parliament in Freiburg and at the conferences of the prime ministers. In 1949 he came to the administration of the German Bundestag in Bonn and was a Bundestag stenographer there until 1985. He also worked as a journalist as a biographer.
Honors
- 1977: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1985: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1991: Corresponding member of the commission for historical regional studies
- 1997: Professor title by the state government of Baden-Württemberg
- 2001: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Bernhard Uttenweiler: Ferdinand, Horst , In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien 4, pp. 77-80
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| SURNAME | Ferdinand, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stenographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ettenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2004 |
| Place of death | near Siegburg |