Johann-Tönjes Cassens

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Johann-Tönjes Cassens with his wife, 2014

Johann-Tönjes Cassens (born October 30, 1932 in Aurich-Oldendorf ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

biography

education and profession

Cassens was born the son of a businessman. After graduating from high school in Aurich in 1952, he did an internship at the DGB and in 1953 began studying law and political science at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and Kiel , which he completed in 1957 with the first state examination. Between 1957 and 1961 he did his legal clerkship in Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin. Between 1959 and 1960 he attended the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer.

In 1961 he passed his second state examination in law at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg and began his doctorate to become a Dr. jur. which he finished successfully. Then he was a member of the management of the Association of Employers' Associations in Bremen until 1962 . From 1962 to 1981 he worked as an independent lawyer and notary in Bremen. He later worked in the same position in Celle and now lives privately in Hanover .

politics

Poster "Cassens and his team [...]" for the general election in Bremen in 1971
Johann-Tönjes Cassens as Lower Saxony's Minister for Science and Art on a CDU election poster in 1986

Cassens joined the CDU in 1961. From 1962 to 1967 he was state manager of the CDU Bremen and head of the local publisher for civics. Between 1968 and 1972 he was a member of his party's federal party court.

Cassens belonged to the Bremen citizenship from 1963 to 1981 and was there from 1971 to 1981 the deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and also chairman of the internal and legal policy working group of the CDU parliamentary group in the citizenship. In the elections for the Bremen citizenship in 1971 he was put up as the top candidate of the CDU, but could not prevail against the SPD candidate Hans Koschnick , but won votes for the CDU. From June 21, 1986 to 1998 he was a member of the 11th to 13th electoral term of the Lower Saxony state parliament . Here he was elected chairman of the Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on January 14, 1992.

Minister in Lower Saxony

Cassens was appointed Minister for Science and Art on May 20, 1981 in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht . During this time he was jointly responsible for the purchase of the Gospel book Heinrichs des Löwen in 1983. For the University of Hanover he acquired the former administrative high-rise of Continental AG in Hanover, which today houses the law and economics faculty including the library.

After the CDU's defeat in the state elections in 1990 , he left the government on June 21, 1990 and was replaced in his ministerial office by Helga Schuchardt (non-party).

writer

As a writer, Johann-Tönjes Cassens last published in 2018 under the title Struggle in Rome for Reforms with reference to current questions of faith initiated by Pope Francis in the Vatican "a very special kind of biblical study ."

Further memberships

Cassens has been a member of the Saxo-Silesia Freiburg fraternity since his studies.

Honors

Trivia

At the time of the Bremen election campaign in 1971, the mayor Koschnick and Cassens lived in the same house, but in different apartments.

Fonts (selection)

Rescue of two cultural treasures from the Guelph property ; Johann-Tönjes Cassen's explanations on the acquisition of the Gospel Henry the Lion and the Guelph coin collection;
PDF document , 2015
  • The importance of the structured concept of damage for the consideration of hypothetical damaging events, dissertation from December 7, 1961 at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Kiel, 1961
  • Johann-Tönjes Cassens et al. : Hermann Conring (1606–1681). An East Frisian scholar of European standing. Exhibition catalog, 1st edition, Norden: Druck und Verlag Soltau, Ostfriesischer Kurier, 1982, ISBN 3-922365-27-2
  • Art and Law (= Justice and Law , Vol. 2), with contributions by Johann-Tönjes Cassens and others, Heidelberg: Müller, Juristischer Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-8114-2285-5
  • Rescue of two cultural treasures from the Guelph holdings , presentations on the Gospel of Henry the Lion and the Guelph coin collection, PDF document , Hanover: 2015
  • Helmholtz - Center for Infection Research 1965–2015 , Interview Minister a. D. Johann-Tönjes Cassens Highlight White Biotechnology p. 62 ff , printed by Döring Druck, Braunschweig, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049710-0
  • Servant of two federal states - An eventful life story , Frankfurter Literaturverlag, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8372-2084-1 (autobiography)
  • Fight in Rome for reforms: Faith and understanding in historical development , 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main: August von Goethe Literaturverlag, [2018], ISBN 978-3-8372-2159-6 ; contents

See also

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 63.

Web links

Commons : Johann-Tönjes Cassens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Simon: MPs in Lower Saxony 1946–1994: biographical manual, 1996, page 63
  2. ↑ Compare the text on the spine of Struggle in Rome for Reforms. Faith and Understanding in Historical Development , 1st edition, Frankfurt aam Main: August von Goethe Literaturverlag, [2018], ISBN 978-3-8372-2159-6
  3. ↑ Press release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science from March 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cassens, Johann-Tönjes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdBB, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich-Oldendorf