Jürgen Echternach
Jürgen Siegmar Echternach (born November 1, 1937 in Lauenburg in Pomerania , † April 4, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( CDU ).
From 1987 to 1993 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development and from 1993 to 1994 at the Federal Minister of Finance .
education and profession
After the family was expelled from Pomerania in 1946, Jürgen Echternach attended the Johanneum in Hamburg-Winterhude and passed his Abitur there in 1957. He then completed a law degree in Hamburg and Bonn , which he completed in 1961 with the first state examination and in 1967 with the second state examination . Since then he has been admitted to the bar. In 1968 he joined the Hamburg Housing Loan Corporation as a legal advisor , and was a member of its board from 1970 to 1980. From 1995 to 2000 he was CEO of BME Station Management and Development Company , a joint venture of the former German Federal Railways and the Hamburg Otto family members of ECE Projektmanagement .
family
Jürgen Echternach, an older brother and two younger sisters were the children of the Protestant theologian Helmut Echternach and his wife Margarete, née. Benecke. He was married and had a son and a daughter. Jürgen Echternach last lived at Jenischpark and was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery in Hamburg.
Political party
Since 1954 Echternach was a member of the CDU. Here he was initially involved in the Junge Union , whose Hamburg state chairman he was from 1964 to 1970. From 1969 to 1973 he was also the federal chairman of the Junge Union and from 1969 was a member of the federal executive committee of the CDU. From 1974 to 1992 Echternach was regional chairman of the CDU in Hamburg. During this time he introduced the so-called flying electoral districts : if a candidate supported by Echternach ( Echternachians in Altona CDU jargon) was threatened with a defeat within the party, a sufficiently large number of CDU members temporarily switched to the local association concerned to list the candidates to back up; Occasionally “new entrants” also helped to fulfill this purpose. Because of this practice, the party court of the Hamburg CDU declared the candidate list in the Altona constituency for the 1990 Bundestag election to be illegal. The Hamburg Constitutional Court declared the 1991 parliamentary election invalid because of undemocratic candidate lists by the CDU under Echternach's leadership and ordered new elections.
On February 12, 2004 Jürgen Echternach was elected regional chairman of the Hamburg Seniors' Union , which office he held until his death.
MP
Echternach was a member of the Hamburg citizenship from 1966 until the resignation on February 5, 1981 . Here he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from 1970 to 1981 .
From 1980 to 1994 Echternach was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1987 he was directly elected member of the Hamburg-Altona constituency and otherwise always entered the German Bundestag via the Hamburg state list.
Public offices
After the general election in 1987 , he was on 12 March 1987 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development in the by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. There he was entrusted, among other things, with the restoration of historic houses on the territory of the former GDR after German reunification.
In January 1993 he then moved to the office of Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Finance. After the general election in 1994 , he left the government on November 17, 1994. In spring 2005, the Hamburg Senate appointed him honorary coordinator for conversion areas .
Others
In 2002 Echternach founded the Jürgen Echternach Foundation for Education and Democracy , a talent factory for the CDU youngsters under the then director of studies Fridtjof Kelber .
Honors
- 1986: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Wulf Brocke : Moving water. The politician Jürgen Echternach . Brocke documents, Hamburg / Lübeck 2009.
- Flying District . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1971 ( online - about the resignation of 18 CDU members in Hamburg).
- Online dissertation on the role of Echternach in the Hamburg CDU
- Political obituary regarding Echternach's role in the Hamburg CDU. In: The world
- The block party . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1993
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 28, 1994, No. 251, p. 22, accessed on March 24, 2013
- ↑ Corpses in the basement . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1993, pp. 21st f . ( online ).
- ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: A judgment that triggered shock waves . In: The world . 4th May 2013
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echternach, Jürgen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Echternach, Jürgen Siegmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdHB, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauenburg in Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2006 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |