Karl Starzacher (politician)
Karl Starzacher (born February 3, 1945 in Sankt Veit an der Glan , Austria ) is a German politician and chairman of the Hessen State Association of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.
Career path
Karl Starzacher went to school in Langsdorf and Frankfurt am Main . After graduation in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main, he studied at the University of Frankfurt am Main Law . After the 1st state examination (1969), he worked as a research assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and passed the second state examination in 1975. He then worked as a consultant in the Hessian State Chancellery and from November 1976 in the Hessian Ministry of Justice.
He has been a member of the SPD since 1969. He was the chairman of the local association in Langsdorf and later in Lich . In terms of local politics, he was the community representative in Langsdorf, where he was parliamentary group leader of the SPD and later a city councilor in Lich. He belonged to the district council of the district of Gießen and led there from 1981 to the SPD parliamentary group. Before that, he had been district council chairman from 1979 to 1981.
In 1978 he became a member of the Hessian state parliament for the constituency of Giessen II . From June 26, 1984 he was deputy chairman and from 1987 to 1991 parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group. From April 5, 1991 to April 5, 1995 he was President of the State Parliament . From April 5, 1995 to April 7, 1999 he was the Hessian finance minister . In the last year of his tenure he was chairman of the conference of finance ministers.
He was a member of the 9th and 10th Federal Assemblies .
After his time as an active politician, he was Chairman of the Management Board of RAG Aktiengesellschaft until May 2003 . From April 1, 2008 to August 31, 2009, Karl Starzacher was President of the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences , Idstein.
Honors
In 1987 Karl Starzacher received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. On November 5, 2010, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awarded Karl Starzacher the Wilhelm Leuschner Medal for services to German unity . On February 20, 2014, Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awarded him the Hessian Order of Merit.
literature
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 367.
- Gerhard Beier : Labor movement in Hessen. On the history of the Hessian labor movement through one hundred and fifty years (1834–1984). Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-14213-4 , p. 569.
Fonts
- with Konrad Schacht (ed.): Right-wing extremism: causes, current developments, disputes. Symposium of the Hessian State Center for Political Education in cooperation with the Hessian Landtag on May 26, 1993 in the Hessian Landtag in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1995.
- with Winfried Hassemer: Data protection and Stasi documents: suppress or cope? Nomos, Baden-Baden 1993.
- (Ed.): Protest voters and refusers. Bund, Cologne 1992.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Starzacher in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on February 7, 1989 . In: The Hessian Prime Minister (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1989 No. 8 , p. 510 , point 204 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 6.5 MB ]).
- ↑ Michael Bußer, newsletter of the Hessian state government from November 5, 2010.
Wilhelm Mattes (Greater Hesse, 1945–1946) | Robert Philipp Nöll von der Nahmer (Greater Hesse, 1946) | Werner Hilpert (1947–1951) | Heinrich Troeger (1951–1956) | Wilhelm Conrad (1956–1964) | Albert Osswald (1964–1969) | Erwin Lang (1969–1970) | Rudi Arndt (1970–1972) | Heribert Reitz (1972–1984) | Hans Krollmann (1984–1987) | Manfred Kanther (1987–1991) | Annette Fugmann-Heesing (1991–1994) | Ernst Welteke (1994–1995) | Karl Starzacher (1995–1999) | Karlheinz Weimar (1999–2010) | Thomas Schäfer ( 2010–2020) | Michael Boddenberg (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Starzacher, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), President of the State Parliament of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Veit an der Glan |