Karl-Heinz Hansen

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Karl-Heinz Hansen (born May 17, 1927 in Linderhofe , † July 22, 2014 in Bremen ) was a German politician. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1983 . Until 1981, when he was expelled from the SPD due to his criticism of government policy , he was a member of the SPD parliamentary group.

Life and work

Hansen, who was of Protestant faith, was drafted into service as an air force helper in 1943 at the age of 16. He later had to serve in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner of war , from which he did not return until 1948. After completing his studies, he worked as a high school teacher from 1959, most recently as director of studies.

politics

Hansen, who joined the SPD in 1961, was elected to the Bundestag for the first time in 1969 (as a direct candidate from Düsseldorf) . He was one of the few members of the Bundestag who campaigned for the release of files on Nazi crimes in German archives , against radical decrees or the NATO double resolution, and voted accordingly in votes. In the Bundestag he was deputy chairman of the petitions committee from 1972 to 1976 . From 1970 to 1980 he was deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district of Düsseldorf.

After an event by the Düsseldorf Young Socialists in May 1981, at which Hansen accused the SPD- led federal government of a kind of secret diplomacy against its own people in its defense policy, the Lower Rhine SPD district executive withdrew his party offices and initiated party regulatory proceedings against him. On 20 July 1981 adopted a Judicial Commission of the SPD district Niederrhein, Hansen from the SPD ruled with which his party career was ended. Together with the Bundestag member Manfred Coppik , who left the SPD in solidarity with Hansen, he founded the Democratic Socialists (DS) in 1982 - a new left-wing party. In June 1982, as members of parliament, both of them disrupted the speech by then US President Ronald Reagan to the German Bundestag.

A little later, in 1984, Hansen became involved in the peace list , which, however, remained largely unsuccessful politically. In 1987 he resigned from the DS. In 1994 he became politically active again, this time for the PDS . On his 70th birthday in 1997, the local club Düsseldorf-Oberbilk wanted to accept him back into the SPD, 16 years after his expulsion. In an interview with SPIEGEL , Hansen said at the time that he had accepted the offer: “My chief prosecutor, Hans Otto Bäumer , then chairman of the Niederrhein district, and my 'defender' from the Düsseldorf subdistrict, who was against my expulsion until the end, recruited me . That means, I give the party the honor at the risk of starting a row with me again. ”Later, however, he vehemently denied having rejoined the SPD. Before the Bundestag elections in 2005, Hansen called for the WASG and PDS to come together: "The left must not fail in the Bundestag elections!"

In September 2014 his memoirs, which were completed while still alive, will appear.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Hansen dead
  2. ↑ Trembling at the power of the word . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1981 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Behind the spoons . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1981 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Pascal Beucker: To the SPD files . In: Junge Welt , December 13, 1996
  5. ↑ Honor the party . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1997, pp. 20 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Interview with concrete 9/2008, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Linderhofe
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2014
Place of death Bremen