Horst Seefeld
Horst Seefeld (* 21st November 1930 in Berlin ; † 10. January 2018 in Bretten ) was a German politician of the SPD and long-standing member of the European Parliament .
Private
After graduating from high school, Horst Seefeld did a commercial apprenticeship as a forwarding agent and stayed in the job until 1955 before he became active as a politician. He was married, had two children and lived in Bretten in Baden-Württemberg.
Political activities
In 1947 Seefeld became a member of the SPD and from 1955 was managing director of the SPD Karlsruhe and secretary at the SPD state association Baden-Württemberg , where he was also a member of the federal executive committee of the Jusos , including deputy federal chairman and its federal secretary.
He was then appointed to the press department in the Federal Ministry of Transport in 1967, where he worked until 1969.
He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1980 and a member of the European Parliament from 1970 to 1989 . In the European Parliament Horst Seefeld was its Vice President until 1989, where he was also a member of the Presidium of the European Union of Germany . From 1976 to 1980 he was elected President of the German Council of the European Movement .
Political merit
When Horst Seefeld left the European Parliament as a member of parliament in 1989, he was elected honorary member because of his commitment.
As a transport expert, Seefeld has repeatedly advocated a common European transport policy and the dismantling of national competition restrictions on the transport market. As part of this commitment, he was instrumental in the action for failure to act that the European Parliament brought before the European Court of Justice in 1983 against the Council of the European Communities . The Council was eventually condemned to ensure the freedom to provide services in international transport and to lay down the conditions for the admission of hauliers to travel within a non-resident Member State. This ruling was not only a milestone on the road to freedom to provide services, it was also the first time that Parliament recognized the power of Parliament to bring an action against the Council's inaction.
further activities
From 1989 to 1991 he worked as a special advisor to the EC Transport Commissioner Karel Van Miert and a member of the seven-person working group “Transport 2000+”.
From 1989 to 2006 Horst Seefeld worked in various international transport institutions on European issues and a. advising.
Awards
- 1981: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1986: Great Cross of Merit
- Mérite Européen
- 1977: Senator Lothar Danner Medal in gold (donor: Association against alcohol in road traffic ),
- Friedland Memorial Medal in silver (donor: Association of Returnees, Prisoners of War and Members of Missing Persons in Germany )
- Golden badge of honor of the VdK
- Golden badge of honor from the Association of German Professional Motorists
literature
- EU No. 4.5.1. Transport policy: General - EC Treaty Article 3 (1) (f) and Title V.
- Regulation (EEC) No. 881/92 of the Council of March 26, 1992 on access to the road haulage market in the Community for transports from or to a Member State or through one or more Member States In: Official Journal No. L 95 of April 9, 1992 p 1-7.
- Jürgen Mittag: From a group of dignitaries to a European network: Six decades of the European movement in Germany. In: 60 Years of the European Movement Germany. Berlin 2009; Pages 12-28. Online ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Website by Horst Seefeld
- Entry on Horst Seefeld in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- Deposit by Horst Seefeld
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of the European Parliament. In: horstseefeld.eu. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Noon 2009: 29
- ↑ Judgment of May 22, 1985, case 13/83
Paul Löbe (1949–1951) | Eugen Kogon (1951–1953) | Ernst Friedlaender (1954–1958) | Hans Furler (1958–1966) | Ernst Majonica (1966–1976) | Horst Seefeld (1976–1980) | Walter Scheel (1980–1985) | Philipp Jenninger (1985–1990) | Annemarie Renger (1990–1992) | Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1992–1994) | Rita Süssmuth (1994-1998) | Wolfgang Thierse (1998–2000) | Monika Wulf-Mathies (2000-2006) | Dieter Spöri (2006–2012) | Rainer Wend (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seefeld, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament (1984–1989) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2018 |
| Place of death | Boards |