Karl Haehser
Karl Haehser (born March 31, 1928 in Bendorf-Sayn ; † October 11, 2012 in Trier ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
From 1974 to 1982 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance .
Life and work
Haehser was a Roman Catholic . From 1942 to 1945 he attended the state teacher training institute in Sinzig . After the Second World War, however, he initially worked as an unskilled worker before he became an employee of the SPD- Koblenz in 1947 . In 1949 he became the full-time youth secretary of the SPD district of Rhineland / Hessen-Nassau. A year later he took over the management of the SPD district of Trier .
From 1956 to 1965 Haehser was a member of the administrative board of Stadtsparkasse Trier. He was also a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Südwestfunk. From 1973 to 1983 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Salzgitter AG , of which he had been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since 1974. From 1986 to 1995 he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Welle .
Political party
Haehser joined the SPD in 1946. From 1962 to 1964 he was the state chairman of the Young Socialists in Rhineland-Palatinate. He headed the Trier district association of the SPD from 1967 to 1986. His correspondence from 1956 to 2005 is in the archive of social democracy . Together with Peter Würtz, he invented the fictional politician Jakob Maria Mierscheid .
MP
Haehser was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1955 to 1965, where he was chairman of the border region committee. From 1960 to 1969 he was a member of the Trier City Council .
From 1965 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was from 1969 to 1972 chairman of the audit committee and from 1972 to 1974 deputy chairman of the budget committee . Haehser was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group from 1983 to 1987. He always entered the Bundestag via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list .
Public offices
On April 1, 1974, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt and then from May 1974 by Helmut Schmidt . After Helmut Kohl was elected Federal Chancellor, Haehser left office on October 4, 1982.
Honors
- 1976: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1978: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1986: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1987: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 296.
- Tamara Breitbach, Markus Nöhl: Obituary for Karl Haehser; New Trierisches Jahrbuch 2013, page 269
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary , Trierischer Volksfreund, October 16, 2012
- ^ Archives of Social Democracy , accessed on October 16, 2012
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haehser, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bendorf-Sayn |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 2012 |
| Place of death | trier |