Jan Ehlers

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Jan Ehlers (1989)

January Ehlers (* 4. May 1939 in Hamburg , † 5. June 2019 ) was a German politician of the SPD , a member of the Hamburg Parliament , Hamburg senator and decades left SPD wingman.

Life

Ehler's father was a communist and his entry into the then trade union ÖTV (today ver.di ) on May 1, 1955 was a matter of honor, even if the professional perspective was an administration apprenticeship. Thanks to a leave of absence from the authority, Jan Ehlers was able to study sociology and economics at the Academy for Economics and Politics with a scholarship from the " Foundation for Co-Determination ". He successfully completed his studies as a sociologist and economist . In the 1970s Ehlers was head of the Association of City Children's Day Care Centers . After serving as a senator, Ehlers had been a member of the board of directors of the Schanzen-Genossenschaft, which managed an alternative residential project in Schanzenstrasse , since November 1988 .

After he left the citizenry in 2004, he ended his professional life. In addition to his parliamentary career, he was a member of the ver.di union . Ehlers died in June 2019 at the age of 80.

politics

Ehlers had been a member of the SPD since 1956. From 1966 to 1973 he was represented in the Fuhlsbüttel local committee and from 1970 to 1974 a member of the Hamburg-Nord district assembly .

At the state party of the SPD Hamburg in January 1970, he spoke out together with Hans Apel , Peter Blach stone , Jens Litten and Wilhelm Nölling contrast from, is that the Axel Springer Verlag at Studio Hamburg , a 100 percent subsidiary of the Norddeutsche Rundfunk involved. The state party congress then passed a resolution in which, among other things, it said: "The state party congress expects all decision-making bodies of the NDR and its subsidiaries to oppose the planned transaction in its current form."

Ehlers had been a member of the Hamburg citizenship since 1974 and during this time, among other things, in the budget committee (chairman), in the committee for home affairs and the public service and the culture committee. He was also deputy parliamentary group leader of the SPD and financial policy spokesman for several years. In 1976 he ran against the future mayor Henning Voscherau for the vacant post of second deputy parliamentary group leader, but lost with 17 votes to 41. In June 1977 he belonged together with Wulf Damkowski , Bodo Fischer , Harro Frank , Hans-Jürgen Grambow , Helga von Hoffmann , Frauke Martin , Lothar Reinhard , Ortwin Runde and Bodo Schümann to a group of ten SPD members of the Bundestag who, in connection with the Exclusion of the Juso chairman Klaus Uwe Benneter in a letter to the party chairman Willy Brandt demanded that this prevent party regulatory proceedings against 56 Hamburg SPD members who had shown solidarity with Benneter.

In 1978 he was elected to the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . As a senator, he was President of the Labor and Social Authority until 1988 , and later the Authority for Labor, Youth and Social Affairs (see Senate Klose II to Senate von Dohnanyi IV ). "^" People instead of walls "and" collective wages instead of social welfare ", these were Jan Ehlers' prominent projects alongside the development of care for the elderly , the pacification of Hafenstrasse and the revival of the Lawaetz Foundation. He campaigned for work bans for women in He called it “bizarre” that tobacco sheath machines were only allowed to be serviced by male workers. During this time, his citizenship mandate was suspended. On April 18, 1988, he suffered a heart attack Illness, he announced his resignation as senator in an interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt in May 1988, which he then announced on June 8, 1988. In December 1989, he was the only SPD member of the citizenship budget committee to vote against the demolition together with the GAL of the houses Pinnasberg 74-79 in the Altona-Altstadt district , where new social housing is being built should.

After the political change in what was then the GDR , he became an honorary advisor to the labor and social affairs minister there, Regine Hildebrandt (SPD). Three years after his heart attack, Ehlers returned to the close leadership of the Hamburg SPD as deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in 1991 . From the beginning of 1992 he represented the SPD parliamentary group in the parliamentary inquiry commission for parliamentary reform. After the defeat of the SPD in the 1997 general election , he announced his resignation from the top of the group in November 1997 together with parliamentary group leader Elisabeth Kiausch and the second deputy group chairman Ingo Kleist . Instead he became chairman of the citizenship budget committee. He remained in the citizenry until 2004.

In the state election in 2011 , he ran after seven years of abstinence and won in the constituency Barmbek-Uhlenhorst-Dulsberg a citizenship mandate because he was high elected by constituency list in tenth place to third place. At the time of the first citizenship meeting of the electoral term, he was the oldest member at the age of 71 and opened it as age president . On May 3, 2011, he resigned his citizenship mandate for health reasons.

literature

  • Hinnerk Fock (editor): Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Hamburg, 14th electoral term . Hamburg 1992.

Web links

Commons : Jan Ehlers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Tschentscher: SPD veteran and ex-Senator Jan Ehlers is dead. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ obituary in Hamburg Course of 3.2019 Wolfgang Rose , forward 3/2019
  3. ↑ obituary in Hamburg Course of 3.2019 Wolfgang Rose, forward 3/2019
  4. ↑ "Klose wants to take over the cultural department" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 12, 1978, accessed on March 24, 2020.
  5. ↑ “And that's what they became” , in Hamburger Abendblatt of December 31, 1988, accessed on April 26, 2020.
  6. ^ Obituary notice Jan Ehlers. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. June 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ "Studio participation is checked" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 26, 1970, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ "21 were against Ulrich Hartmann" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of April 27, 1976, accessed on March 22, 2020.
  9. ^ "The conflict in the SPD about the Juso boss" , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from July 9, 1977, accessed on March 23, 2020.
  10. ↑ obituary in Hamburg Course of 3.2019 Wolfgang Rose, forward 3/2019
  11. ↑ “Unbelievable - what women are forbidden” , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 21, 1979, accessed on March 26, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Heart attack - Social Senator Ehlers in the intensive care unit" , in Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 1988, accessed on April 23, 2020.
  13. ↑ “I would have run against Voscherau” , in Hamburger Abendblatt of May 16, 1988, accessed on April 23, 2020.
  14. ^ "Written resignation" , in Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 2, 1988, accessed on April 24, 2020.
  15. ↑ "SAGA sets empty apartments" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of December 7, 1989, accessed on April 26, 2020.
  16. ^ "Rundblick" in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated May 30, 1990, accessed on April 28, 2020.
  17. ^ "Dress rehearsal for the Senatorial Election" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of June 26, 1991, accessed on April 29, 2020.
  18. ^ "Parliamentary reform : Ehlers prevails" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of January 28, 1992, accessed on April 29, 2020.
  19. ^ "Fraction: Three new ones at the top" , in Hamburger Abendblatt of November 12, 1997, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  20. ^ "GAL unsatisfied" , in Hamburger Abendblatt from December 15, 1997, accessed on May 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 2019