Horst Kiesecker

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Horst Kiesecker

Horst Kiesecker (* 8. October 1934 in Hohentengen ; † 29. February 2020 in Tailfingen ) was a German politician of the SPD .

education and profession

After graduating from Kepler-Gymnasium in Ulm , Horst Kiesecker studied law and political science at the universities in Tübingen and Freiburg . After his first state examination in Freiburg in 1958, he was a trainee lawyer in Bonn and Ulm. After his assessor exam in Stuttgart in 1962, he was first a court assessor in Ellwangen and then a public prosecutor in Ulm. From 1964 to 1966 he was a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Service of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

Political activity

During his studies Kiesecker was involved in the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD) and was LSD federal chairman in 1958/59.

In 1966 Horst Kiesecker was elected mayor of the then independent town of Tailfingen . From 1971 he was also a district councilor in the Balingen district and from 1973 in the Zollernalb district . He was chairman of the district parliamentary group of the SPD. Together with his mayor colleague Hans Hoss from the neighboring town of Ebingen , he pushed ahead with the merger of the two towns into the new town of Albstadt , which was carried out at the beginning of 1975. This also ended Kiesecker's term of office as mayor.

In 1972 Kiesecker was elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for the first time through a second mandate from the constituency of Balingen . From 1976 he was a member of the Economic Committee, chairing it from 1980 to 1984. In the state elections in 1984 he failed, as did in 1988 when he tried to be re-elected.

His departure was a consequence of the Baden-Wuerttemberg state election system, which allocated the second mandates for defeated constituency applicants in the order of their absolute number of votes at the level of the administrative districts. The stagnating population development in the Zollernalb district therefore meant that the fifth and last second mandate for the SPD in the Tübingen district was transferred from the Balingen district to the Hechingen-Münsingen district in 1984 .

Between 1992 and 1996 Kiesecker was again a member of the state parliament because the SPD in the administrative district was given a sixth mandate as a compensatory seat due to the moderate performance of the CDU . During this legislative period he was a member of the state parliament's finance committee.

honors and awards

In 1978 Kiesecker was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1983 the Cross of Merit 1st Class and on May 9, 1987 by Prime Minister Lothar Späth the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

Family and private

Horst Kiesecker was married and had three children.

Web links

Commons : Horst Kiesecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice , accessed on March 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Black Forest Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Albstadt: Father Albstadt and fighter for the region - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ V. Erhard / U. Josten u. a. (Ed.): Commitment to freedom and democracy. Contributions to the history of the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD), Jena 2001, p. 132.
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 19, January 27, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Kiesecker, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohentengen (Upper Swabia)
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2020
Place of death Tailfingen