Karl Weinhofer

Karl Weinhofer (born October 8, 1942 in Gießhübel , Sudetenland ) is a former German politician (SPD).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1962, the son of a head forester did his military service in the Pioneer Battalion 4 in Bogen from 1962 to 1964 at the Willibaldsgymnasium in Eichstätt. He was released as a lieutenant in the reserve. He then studied at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Political Science in Munich. In 1969 he passed the second state examination. He then worked as a vocational school teacher in Nuremberg from 1970 , most recently as senior lecturer .

1970 Weinhofer joined the SPD . In 1977 he became chairman of the SPD sub-district of Ingolstadt. In 1978 he was unsuccessful in the election to the Bavarian state parliament in the district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen. From 1978 to 1980 he was a member of the Eichstätt City Council ; he was also a member of the district council of the Eichstätt district .

In 1980 and 1983 Karl Weinhofer was elected to the German Bundestag via the Bavarian state list , where he a. a. belonged to the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Education and Science . In 1983 Jürgen Leinemann made the "backbencher" the central figure in a three-part series in the news magazine Der Spiegel . A quote from him has been reprinted several times nationally and internationally: "People can be roughly divided into three categories: The few who see to it that something happens, the many who watch something happen, and the overwhelming majority who do not Has a clue what's going on. "

After the federal election in 1987 , Weinhofer, who had always lost to Horst Seehofer (CSU) in the fight for a direct mandate in the Ingolstadt constituency , left the Bundestag. He first undertook some world trips and then worked for a short time at a vocational school in Nuremberg , but then left school prematurely and worked in the real estate and antique business. In October 1990, shortly before the next federal election , he moved up to the Bundestag for another two months when Konrad Porzner resigned from his seat and became President of the Federal Intelligence Service.

Weinhofer is Catholic, divorced, has four grown children and lives in Eichstätt.

literature

• Jürgen Leinemann: I'm just the echo. About the political everyday life of a Bonn backbencher: Karl Weinhofer . Mirror series.
  • Part I . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1983, pp. 141-157 ( Online - May 30, 1983 ).
  • Part II . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1983, pp. 122-138 ( online - 6 June 1983 ).
  • Part III . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1983, pp. 140-157 ( online - 13 June 1983 ).
• Jürgen Leinemann: Damage to the soul . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2002, pp. 76–99 ( online - June 10, 2002 , here: pp. 86f.).
• Christoph Schwennicke: Junkies in the spotlight. In: Spiegel Online . April 22, 2009, accessed November 7, 2010 .