Karl Ravens

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Karl Ravens, 1978

Karl Ravens (born June 29, 1927 in Achim ; † September 8, 2017 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1974 to 1978 he was Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development .

Life and work

Karl Ravens was born the son of a railroad worker. After attending elementary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a metal aircraft builder in Bremen from 1941 and passed the skilled worker examination prematurely in 1944. From 1944 to 1945 he did the Reich Labor Service and then the military service in the Air Force . After the war, from 1946 to 1948 he retrained as a motor vehicle mechanic. From 1952 to 1961 he was an apprentice trainer at Borgward .

Ravens lived in Hanover , was married and had a grown son.

Act

Ravens joined the Socialist Youth of Germany in 1949 - Die Falken and joined the SPD in 1950. From 1956 to 1957 and from 1972 to 1976 he was councilor of the city of Achim and from 1969 until the municipality reform in 1972 he was councilor and deputy mayor of the municipality of Bierden . From 1957 to 1976 he was a member of the district council in the district of Verden .

From 1961 until the resignation of his mandate on June 15, 1978, Ravens was a member of the German Bundestag and was a member of the executive committee of the SPD parliamentary group from 1968 to 1969 . Karl Ravens entered the Bundestag in the 1965 federal election via the SPD state list of Lower Saxony and otherwise always as a directly elected member of the Verden - Rotenburg - Osterholz constituency (1961) or the Verden constituency . From 1969 to 1972 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Urban Development and Housing and from 1972 to 1974 to the Federal Chancellor .

On May 16, 1974 he was appointed Federal Minister for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development in the Federal Government ( Schmidt I cabinet ) led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ; after the federal election in 1976 he remained in this office.

In January 1976, Alfred Kubel , Minister-President of Lower Saxony since 1970, resigned from this office for reasons of age; the social-liberal coalition ( Cabinet Kubel II ) agreed on Finance Minister Helmut Kasimier as his successor. This surprisingly failed in the first two ballots and received fewer votes than the CDU parliamentary group leader Ernst Albrecht . In the third ballot on February 12, 1976, Ravens ran as a substitute candidate for Kasimier, but was also defeated by Albrecht, who thus became Prime Minister. Albrecht formed a CDU minority government ( Albrecht I cabinet ). The dissenters from the coalition have remained unknown to this day.

On February 16, 1978 Ravens resigned from his ministerial office and led the SPD election campaign before the state election in Lower Saxony on June 4, 1978 . In the election he entered the Lower Saxony state parliament via the SPD's state list . In the state parliament he was chairman of the SPD state parliamentary group from 1978 to 1986 and thus leader of the opposition . In addition, from 1979 and 1984 he was state chairman of the newly formed state association of the SPD Lower Saxony and from 1976 to 1984 a member of the central SPD party executive committee .

In the state elections in 1982 Ravens was again the top candidate of the SPD for the office of Prime Minister of Lower Saxony; the SPD received only 36.5 percent of the vote (after 42.2 percent in the previous election).

After the state elections in 1986 , he handed over the chairmanship of the parliamentary group to Gerhard Schröder and became vice-president of the Lower Saxony state parliament, of which he was a member until the end of the 1990 legislative period.

Social Commitment

From 1979 to 1991 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany and from 1980 to 2003 President of the German Association for Housing, Urban Development and Spatial Planning .

Honors

For his services, Ravens was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and in 1978 the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was also the recipient of the highest award in the state of Lower Saxony, the Lower Saxony State Medal .

Cabinets

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Ravens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael B. Berger: Ex-SPD country chief Karl Ravens is dead . HAZ.de , September 13, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Obituary notice from Karl Ravens FAZ , September 18, 2017
  3. ↑ ukluge: Obituary Karl Ravens government minister. D. ~ Federal Chamber of Architects. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2017 ; Retrieved October 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bak.de
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 172, September 13, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Ravens, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Achim
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2017