Karl-Heinz Hiersemann

Karl-Heinz Hiersemann at an SPD event in Schweinfurt in the 1980s

Karl-Heinz Hiersemann (born August 17, 1944 in Breslau ; † July 15, 1998 in Marloffstein near Erlangen ) was a German SPD politician , member and vice-president of the Bavarian State Parliament and holder of the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Federal Cross of Merit .

Life

At the age of three, Karl-Heinz Hiersemann came to Erlangen as a displaced person and grew up here. The son of an Erlangen CSU city ​​councilor and head of the Inner Mission studied law , political science and history at the University of Erlangen . During his studies he was temporarily a member of the Uttenruthia . From 1972 he worked as a lawyer in Erlangen and later founded his own law firm.

In 1985 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit , in 1989 the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Gold and in 1993 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class . He died of cancer at the age of 53.

Political career

In 1967 he joined the SPD. From 1970 to 1974 he was chairman of the Erlangen SPD and initiated the change to the long-term SPD mayor of Erlangen, Dietmar Hahlweg , after 13 years of supremacy by the CSU. In 1985 he asserted himself as chairman of the then powerful SPD district association of Franconia.

From 1974 until his death in 1998 he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament, where he became deputy parliamentary group chairman in 1978 and earned the reputation of “the best speaker in the Maximilianeum ”. After the state elections in 1986, he was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.

After disappointing results in the state elections in 1986 and 1990, with him as the top candidate of the Bavarian SPD , he was elected Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament in 1992.

Focus of political work

Karl-Heinz Hiersemann's political focus was the party structural reform and the improvement of the rights of the opposition in parliament, including in the committees of inquiry . He campaigned against the excesses of the radical decree in the 1970s and against deportations of rejected asylum seekers in the 1980s. In the state election campaigns, Hiersemann focused on the issues of housing shortages, care shortages and equality between men and women.

Social Commitment

As a result of his mediation, the town twinning between Erlangen and Jena came about as one of the first German-German partnerships as early as the GDR era. In the 1990s he got involved as manager of the second division handball team CSG Erlangen and organized a pool of sponsors in the Erlangen economy, from which the "Economic Council for Top Handball" was formed. The aim here is not only to promote handball, but also to promote contacts between entrepreneurs and politicians through regular high-profile roundtables and discussions.

After his death

Since 1999, the SPD Middle Franconia and the SPD Erlangen have jointly awarded the Karl Heinz Hiersemann Prize every two years to young people and youth groups who campaign for freedom, democracy, tolerance and international understanding.

The venue of the second division handball team HC Erlangen - in which the handball department of CSG Erlangen was merged - was renamed Karl-Heinz-Hiersemann-Halle by the city of Erlangen. Likewise, the association's economic council now bears the name Karl-Heinz-Hiersemann-Gesellschaft.

His widow Alexandra Hiersemann , also an SPD, was elected to the Bavarian state parliament on September 15, 2013 for the constituency of Erlangen-Höchstadt .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ude wants, but states conditions . Bavarian radio. August 12, 2011. Retrieved January 2, 2018.