Karl-Heinz Hornhues

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Karl-Heinz Hornhues' candidate poster for the 1998 federal election

Karl-Heinz Hornhues (born June 10, 1939 in Stadtlohn ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and former member of the Bundestag. He was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee for many years .

Life

Hornhues first attended elementary school, then secondary school and then the Alexander-Hegius-Gymnasium in Ahaus , where he graduated from high school in 1960. He studied economics, sociology and Christian social sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . There he met Werner Remmers , who was to support him a lot. In 1965 he was Master of Economics, three years later he received his doctorate with a thesis on Economic effects of the employment of foreign workers to the Dr. rer. pole. Hornhues is a philatelist . He is married and has two sons.

University professor

After graduating, Hornhues worked for the Diocese of Osnabrück . In 1970 Hornhues took over the deputy management of the Catholic adult education center Ludwig-Windthorst-Haus in Lingen . In 1971 he switched to the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche as a training manager. In 1972 Hornhues went to the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Germany in Osnabrück / Vechta as a (founding) curator , where he taught social economics and social policy as a university lecturer from 1974. From 1977 he took over a professorship at this university. Member of the Bundestag since 1972, he took a leave of absence from his teaching position in 1980.

politics

Hornhues joined the CDU in 1961 and was state chairman of the Junge Union in Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1974 . From 1972 to 1990 he was a member of the state executive committee of the CDU Lower Saxony. He was first elected to the Bundestag in the 1972 Bundestag election, to which he was a continuous member until 2002. In the elections of 1976 and 1983 to 1998 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Osnabrück and in 1972, 1980 and 1998 he moved into parliament via the state list . Influenced by his grandfather, who wanted to become a teacher in German South West Africa , Hornhues turned to African topics. From 1983 to 1989 he headed the German-African parliamentary group. As chairman, he headed the Foreign Cultural Policy subcommittee of the Bundestag and was generally considered an Africa specialist, including through several trips. He has been chairman of the German Africa Foundation since 1987 and its honorary chairman since 2010. In 2008 he and his wife founded the "Ellen and Karl-Heinz Hornhues Foundation ProAfrika". He is also a member of the board of trustees of the aid organization CARE Germany .

Hornhues only became known nationwide when he succeeded Volker Rühe in a vote against Friedrich Vogel for u. a. Deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group responsible for foreign policy was elected. Nevertheless, Hornhues continued to act more in the background and campaigned for the integration of the Eastern Bloc countries. In 1994 he took over the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee from Hans Stercken , who had left the Bundestag. After the SPD's election victory in 1998, Hans-Ulrich Klose replaced him as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. From 1998 to 2002 he headed the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) in Paris and was chairman of the German-Russian parliamentary group of the Bundestag.

Before the federal election in 2002 it became known that Hornhues did not want to run again. He thus resigned from parliament.

Awards

Fonts

  • Germany United fatherland ...! : my footnotes on German unity . 2nd edition: Hess, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-933117-07-6 .
  • Bergedorf: Catalog; from pre-philately to the end of the Lübeck-Hamburg post office . Hess, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-933117-05-2 .
  • Namibia episodes: political - anecdotal . Hess, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-933117-38-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hornhues, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH City wages