Joseph Wohlfart

Joseph "Jos" Wohlfart (born June 4, 1920 in Helmdingen, Lorentzweiler ; † July 5, 2000 ibid) was a Luxembourg politician of the Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP), who was interior minister between 1974 and 1979, among other things.

Life

Joseph "Jos" Wohlfart was forcibly recruited by the German Wehrmacht during the occupation of Luxembourg in World War II and after the end of the war he became the first vice-president of the Ons Jongen organization . He joined the Socialist Workers' Party LSAP Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei in 1948 and began his political career in local politics for the LSAP when he became a member of the Lorentzweiler municipal council in 1950. In the chamber election on May 30, 1954 , he was elected for the DP as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Chamber) and belonged to this initially until 1974. In this function he was also representative of Luxembourg in the Advisory Interparliamentary Benelux Council from 1958 to 1963 . He acted as mayor of Lorentzweiler between 1961 and 1974 and was also a member of the European Parliament for the first time from 1964 and 1974 , which at that time were determined by the national parliaments.

After leaving the Chamber and the European Parliament , Wohlfart became Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'Intérieur) in the Thorn government on June 15, 1974, and was a member of it until July 16, 1979. With the progress of the development of the European internal market and the associated freedom of movement , however, awareness of the associated risks and dangers also increased. In view of this, at a meeting of the European Council in Rome on December 1 and 2, 1975, it was decided to work more closely together in the fields of home affairs and security. For this purpose, the so-called TREVI group (stands for Terrorisme, Radicalisme, Extrémisme et Violence Internationale or for the first conference venue Trevi ) was set up.

In the chamber election on May 26, 1974 , he was re-elected for the LSAP as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and, after being re-elected in the chamber election on June 10, 1979, belonged to it until June 17, 1984. He was a founding member of the Union of Capital Regions of the European Community URCCE (Union des Régions Capitales de la Communauté Européenne) and between 1980 and 1983 President of this organization. Then in 1983 he became President of the Public Transport Campaign (Aktioun Ëffentlechen Transport) .

After the death of Lydie Schmit on April 7, 1988, "Jos" Wohlfart moved up again as a member of the European Parliament and was a member of it for the second legislative period from April 28, 1988 to July 24, 1989. He was a member of the Socialist Group for the LSAP and was also its deputy chairman. During his membership of the European Parliament, he was a member of the Political Affairs Committee and the Committee on Women's Rights between June 13, 1988 and July 24, 1989. In addition, between May 19 and September 12, 1988, he was first deputy chairman and then from September 13, 1988 to July 24, 1989 a member of the delegation for relations with the Soviet Union . Most recently, between 1991 and 1997, he was President of the Amicale des personnes retraitées, âgées ou solitaires AMIPERAS, a society that promotes friendship between retired people, the elderly and single people.

Wohlfart was the father of Georges Wohlfart , who was also a member of parliament and minister, and of the cartoonist and painter Roger Wohlfart.

publication

• Reflexions sur la politique regional de la Communauté , 1969

Web links

• Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848
• Entry in Rulers
• Luxembourg: Key Ministries in Rulers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Government of Thorn
2. ↑ Historical change of power . In: Luxemburger Wort of August 13, 2018
3. ↑ Eva Oberloskamp: Code name TREVI: Combating Terrorism and the Beginnings of European Domestic Policy in the 1970s , Walter de Gruyter, 2016, p. 95 ( online version )
4. ↑ Entry on the homepage of the European Parliament