Horst Krockert

Horst Krockert (born February 17, 1924 in Wriezen ; † May 26, 2015 in Wiesbaden ) was a German SPD politician .

Krockert took part in the Second World War as a career officer and became a prisoner of war in which he found faith. In the 1950s he studied Protestant theology in Mainz and Göttingen. After he had completed his vicariate , Krockert took a position in the theological seminar of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) in 1959 . In 1962 he switched to the Gossner Mission in Mainz as a consultant . In 1967 he took over the management of the office for industrial and social work at the EKHN.

In 1969 he was directly elected to the German Bundestag for the SPD in the Wiesbaden constituency. After successful re-elections in 1972 and 1976, he was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1980 .

In April 1970 Krockert was appointed to the Criminal Law Commission of the Evangelical Church by the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany . At the beginning of 1971, Krockert, who had not participated in any meeting, resigned from the commission that was supposed to deal with the reform of Section 218 of the Criminal Code from the Protestant side.

After leaving the Bundestag, Krockert became pastor of the Wiesbaden Orange community in 1981. In 1982 he took over the management of the public relations department of the EKHN and was thus also the press spokesman for the church government until his retirement in 1989. He was married and had three sons.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 458.

Web links

• Article on Krockert's 90th birthday

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mourning for the "mediator between faith and society"
2. ↑ Simone Mantei: No and yes to abortion. The Protestant Church in the reform debate on § 2018 StGB (1970–1976) , Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-55738-8 , pp. 56 and 96