Jürgen Schmude

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Jürgen Schmude (2009)

Jürgen Dieter Paul Schmude (born June 9, 1936 in Insterburg , East Prussia ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1978 to 1981 he was Federal Minister of Education and Science , from 1981 to 1982 Federal Minister of Justice and 1982 Federal Minister of the Interior .

education and profession

After graduating from high school Adolfinum Moers in 1955 , Schmude studied law , theater studies and modern German studies in Göttingen , Berlin , Bonn and Cologne , which he completed in 1961 with the first state examination. The second state examination in law followed in 1966 . Since 1967 he worked as a lawyer in Gustav Heinemann 's law firm . In 1968 he became a doctor of law with the work in the Competition Act, the concept of undertaking a PhD .

family

Jürgen Schmude is married and has two children.

Political party

Schmude initially planned membership in the All-German People's Party (GVP), but then joined the SPD in the course of the dissolution of the GVP in 1957.

MP

Jürgen Schmude (1982, at the SPD party conference)

From 1964 to 1971 he was a member of the council of Moers and from 1969 also a member of the district council.

From 1969 to 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag . He always moved into parliament as a directly elected member of the Moers constituency or, from 1980, of the Wesel II constituency . From 1977 to 1978 he was chairman of the working group for foreign and security policy of the SPD parliamentary group . From 1984 to 1985 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Jürgen Schmude was last directly elected in the 1990 Bundestag election in the Wesel II constituency with 54.0% of the vote.

Offices

Public offices

From 1974 to 1976 he held the office of Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior in the first cabinet of Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt .

On February 16, 1978 he was appointed Federal Minister for Education and Science. He initially retained this office after the 1980 federal election . However, when Hans-Jochen Vogel went to Berlin as Governing Mayor in January 1981 , Schmude became his successor in the office of Federal Minister of Justice on January 28, 1981.

After breaking the social-liberal coalition and the resignation of the FDP -Minister he took over from 17 September in 1982 for two weeks, the Office of the Federal Minister of the Interior and then retired after the for Helmut Kohl successful confidence vote on 1 October 1982 from the Federal Government of .

From 2005 to February 2008 he was a member of the National Ethics Council . From April 2008 to March 2012 he was a member of the German Ethics Council .

Church offices

From 1985 to 2003 Schmude held the office of President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Schmude  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christof Vetter (press office of the ICE): Former Federal Minister receives the Karl Barth Prize 2008. (No longer available online.) Union of Evangelical Churches (ICE), September 5, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 6, 2010 .  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uek-online.de  
  2. ↑ Award of the State Order of Merit. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 14, 2019, accessed on May 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmude, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmude, Jürgen Dieter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia