Horst Waffenschmidt

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Horst Waffenschmidt

Horst Waffenschmidt (born May 10, 1933 in Düsseldorf ; † May 7, 2002 at Eichholz Castle near Wesseling ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

From 1982 to 1997 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of the Interior and from 1988 to 1998 the Federal Government's Commissioner for Resettlers .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in Waldbröl in 1954 , Waffenschmidt studied law and political science in Bonn and Cologne , which he completed in 1958 with the first state examination and in 1963 with the second state examination . In 1962 at the University of Bonn's promotion to Dr. jur. with the work The external separation and internal independence of the federal legislature and federal executive in the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1963 he joined the administration of the Rhineland Regional Council as an assessor and until 1964 was head of the administration and law department at the regional road construction office in Cologne. From 1964 to 1971 Waffenschmidt was municipal director and from 1971 to 1972 city ​​director in Wiehl . From 1973 he was admitted to the bar.

Waffenschmidt was first vice president from 1972 to 1979 and president of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities from 1979 to 1981 .

family

Horst Waffenschmidt was married and had four children. His son, Christoph Waffenschmidt , was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Waldbröl and has been the managing director of World Vision Germany since 2007 .

Political party

In 1954 he joined the CDU. From 1962 to 1998 Waffenschmidt was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1973 to 1998 he was also a member of the CDU federal executive committee .

From 1973 to 1997 Waffenschmidt was federal chairman of the local political association of the CDU and CSU in Germany and then its honorary chairman. Until 1989 he headed the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU Rhineland.

MP

Waffenschmidt was a member of the district council of the Oberbergischer Kreis from 1961 to 1964 and of the town council of Waldbröl from 1964 to 1969 and from 1975 until his death.

From 1962 to 1972 Waffenschmidt was also a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . Here he was temporarily also deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group .

From 1972 to 1998 Waffenschmidt was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1974 to 1982 he was chairman of the local politics working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and in this function from 1980 to 1982 a member of the parliamentary committee.

Horst Waffenschmidt has always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Oberbergischer Kreis constituency . Most recently he achieved 48.8% of the first votes in the 1994 federal election .

As part of the prayer breakfast movement , he was one of the initiators of the international prayer breakfast in Berlin, an annual gathering that is comparable to the national prayer breakfast in the USA, along with the former member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament Rudolf Decker and the publisher Friedrich Hänssler . In addition, he was one of the initiators of the cross-factional prayer breakfast group in the Bundestag.

Public offices

On October 4, 1982, Waffenschmidt was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior in the federal government led by Helmut Kohl . On May 15, 1997, he resigned from the government. In addition, from September 28, 1988 to December 2, 1998, Horst Waffenschmidt was the Federal Government Commissioner for emigrant issues and earned the title of "Apostle of the Russian Germans".

Waffenschmidt was a member of the regional synod for several years and from 1973 to 1989 a member of the church leadership of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Honors

Cabinets

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  1. ↑ Christoph Waffenschmidt new managing director at World Vision Germany. ( Memento of March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), World Vision Germany press release of November 6, 2007 (PDF; 43 kB)
  2. ↑ Tolerance needs a firm belief as a basis.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Evangelical news agency Idea , June 3, 2005@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.idea.de  
  3. ^ Christian Neef: Russian Germans: No longer dumb as a fish. In: Der Spiegel. 8/1998 of February 16, 1998, pp. 64-66, here p. 65.

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personal data
SURNAME Waffenschmidt, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2002
Place of death Eichholz Castle near Wesseling