Joseph Bucker

Joseph Bücker (2nd from left) in 1987 handing over the report of the " Neue Heimat " investigative committee to the President of the Bundestag Philipp Jenninger .

Joseph Bücker (born February 9, 1927 in Coesfeld ; † May 14, 2001 in Bonn ) was a German administrative lawyer and director of the German Bundestag from 1984 to 1991 .

Life

The son of a teacher attended the state high school for boys in Coesfeld and was drafted first as an air force helper in April 1943 , in the summer of 1944 in the Reich Labor Service and in December 1944 in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war he made up his Abitur in 1946, began studying Catholic theology in Münster and Bonn, but switched to law in 1950 . After the first (1953 Munich) and second (1958 in Dusseldorf) State examination was Bücker in 1965 with a thesis on the reliability of individual laws after the Basic Law for Dr. jur. PhD. Since 1949 he was a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich .

Bücker was already politically active during his studies, and in 1952/1953 he became chairman of the general student committee of the University of Munich and the Bavarian student body. In 1953/1954 he was a board member of the Association of German Student Associations (VDS) in Bonn. It was there that Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier became aware of Bücker and brought him to the Bundestag administration as a scientific assistant and committee secretary in March 1958 .

In 1982, Bücker became head of parliamentary law and soon afterwards, in the rank of ministerial director, head of the parliamentary services department , which, in addition to the parliamentary secretariat and stenographic service, was also assigned the parliamentary law department and the secretariat of the committee for election review, immunity and rules of procedure. In 1984 Bücker was finally appointed director of the German Bundestag by the then President of the Bundestag, Rainer Barzel . On June 13, 1991, Bücker resigned from office before reaching the age limit; his successor was Rudolf Kabel on July 1, 1991 .

Bücker was regarded as one of the best experts on German parliamentary law and in 1981 published the first complete new edition of his manual for parliamentary practice , which he continued to oversee even after his retirement. Bücker became politically active in the CDU , for which he ran in vain in the 1969 federal election on the North Rhine-Westphalian state list.

Awards

• Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1991)

literature

• International Biographical Archive 35/2001 of August 20, 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical note on www.kgparl.de, accessed on April 12, 2017.