Karlheinz Reich

Karlheinz Reich (born May 26, 1945 ) in Brenderup ( Denmark ) on the run from East Prussia , was a teacher at the elementary and secondary school in Eicklingen and was a liberal politician in Braunschweig until 1983 . He lives with his wife Karin Reich in Wathlingen .

Life

In 1963 Karlheinz Reich joined the Braunschweig FDP . During his extensive studies he was a member of the Liberal Student Union of Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD) and the Liberal University Association (LHV). From 1966 to 1967 he was federal manager of the LSD.

He was active with the German Young Democrats (DJD) where he held positions on the board in Braunschweig and Lower Saxony .

In 1970, at the State Youth Day of Lower Saxony's young democrats, political disputes arose over the right way to change society. Reformist ideas, interpreted as radical democratic , stood against one another with revolutionary , Marxist-Leninist-inspired ideas . The latter finally prevailed. This was symbolized by the acceptance of a motion - motion 13 - with the key message “smashing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat”. A wing of the regional association, led by Karlheinz Reich, was convinced that the association had been systematically infiltrated by communist groups in order to get public grants for youth work. Reich and his supporters therefore resigned and founded the Social Liberal Youth of Lower Saxony in Bad Zwischenahn in autumn 1970 . Reich was both the state chairman of this association from 1970 to 1971 and was involved in drawing up the policy paper, the Braunschweig Manifesto .

1972 Young Democrats and Social Liberal Youth merged again. Karlheinz Reich was the full-time managing director of the merged Lower Saxony state association from January 1, 1973 to December 31, 1974. The office was in Braunschweig.

In 1970 and 1974 he ran for the Lower Saxony state parliament . For many years he was a member of the board of the FDP district association in Braunschweig, including deputy chairman. He was a delegate at state and federal party conferences .

1974–1978 he was parliamentary group chairman in the association assembly of the Greater Braunschweig association

In 1975 he married the then young democrat Karin Göritz, with whom he has two children. He has been a secondary school teacher since 1979.

In 1982 Reich resigned from the FDP because the party leadership at the federal level left the social-liberal coalition and formed an alliance with the CDU / CSU . This was preceded by the constructive vote of no confidence in Helmut Schmidt and the election of Helmut Kohl .

Reich was a founding member of the Liberal Democrats (LD) at the founding congress in Bochum on November 28, 1982 and district chairman of the LD in Braunschweig. Since this party did not reach the limit of the reimbursement of campaign costs in elections , he resigned in 1983 with other Braunschweig citizens, as he saw no prospects for this party.

Works

• Karlheinz Reich: The Liberal Parties in Germany 1918 to 1933 , publisher Young Democrats - Landesverband Niedersachsen, Osnabrück 1979