Klaus Harries

Klaus Harries (born January 27, 1929 in Celle ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He was senior district director of the Lüneburg district and a member of the German Bundestag  (MP).

Life and work

Klaus Harries is an Evangelical Lutheran , married and has one daughter. He was born on January 27, 1929 in Celle and grew up in Göttingen . There he graduated from high school in 1948 . Harries then studied law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He completed his studies with the first and second state examination. Before starting his political activities as a member of the Bundestag, Klaus Harries was senior district director of the Lüneburg district from 1968 to 1987.

Political party

Klaus Harries says he has been a member of the CDU since 1965. Kürschner's People's Handbook mentions 1970 as the year he joined. He belongs to the medium-sized and business association of the CDU / CSU . From 1987 to 1992 Harries was district chairman of the CDU district association Lüneburg. The district association has awarded him honorary membership for particularly meritorious work.

MP

Klaus Harries represented the Lüchow-Dannenberg-Lüneburg constituency in the German Bundestag from 1987 to 1994 in the 11th and 12th electoral periods as a directly elected member . He belonged to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Harries was a member of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Committee for eight years . He was rapporteur for the group on nuclear energy issues and was also a member of the "Transnuclear" committee of inquiry . In the 12th electoral term he was a member of the Enquête Commission "Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere".

According to Harries, becoming a member of the Bundestag was not his goal. At the time, he was asked to run by fellow party members and agreed after a period of reflection. In retrospect, Klaus Harries describes himself as a backbencher who has done useful and recognized political work. The job was exciting and fulfilling. He does not regret the eight years of membership.

Memberships

Klaus Harries was a member of the German Association of Officials . He is involved in the riding and driving club Lüneburg (→ German Equestrian Association ). Until 2008 he was its chairman for many years. He has been honorary chairman of the association since 2008.

politics

Klaus Harries rejected the APO movement in the 1960s and supported the CDU. During the time he was a member of the German Bundestag, the vote on the seat of the German Bundestag after reunification , the question of the treatment of the large landowners expropriated in the Soviet occupation zone and the controversy over abortion took place . In the capital city resolution, Harries voted on June 20, 1991 in favor of the motion “Complete the unity of Germany” and the relocation of the Bundestag seat from Bonn to Berlin . In the vote on the Pregnancy and Family Assistance Act on June 25, 1992, he voted in favor of the deadline regulation with mandatory advice. In the debate on how to deal with the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone, Harries claims to belong to a minority in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group at the time, which advocated fair reparation by compensating the expropriated landowners.

supporting documents

Much of the information in this article comes from

• Manfred Balzer: The CDU members of the Bundestag in constituency 31. In: The CDU in the city and district of Lüneburg. A historical overview 1945-2003. 3rd revised edition. Offset printing Fritz Fischer, Felbach-Oeffingen 2007, pp. 108–111 ( PDF ; 1.3 MB).
• Klaus-J. Holzapfel (Ed.): Kürschner's People's Handbook of the German Bundestag. 11th legislative term, 1987. 53rd edition. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1988, ISBN 3-87576-209-6 , p. 95.
• Klaus-J. Holzapfel (Ed.): Kürschner's People's Handbook of the German Bundestag. 12th electoral term, 1990. 67th edition. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Rheinbreitbach 1992, ISBN 3-87576-285-1 , p. 113.

In addition, the following individual references are cited:

1. ↑ Manfred Balzer: The CDU district association Lüneburg 1974-2003. In: The CDU in the city and district of Lüneburg. A historical overview 1945-2003. 3rd revised edition. Offsetdruck Fritz Fischer, Felbach-Oeffingen 2007, pp. 79, 80 ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; 278 kB).  
2. ^ First report by the Enquête Commission "Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere". Printed matter 12/2400. German Bundestag, Bonn March 31, 1992, p. 2 ( PDF ; 6.26 MB).
3. ^ Riding and Driving Association Lüneburg e. V. (Ed.): Generation change at the annual general meeting. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
4. ^ Minutes of the plenary session of the 34th meeting. German Bundestag, 12th electoral term, Bonn June 20, 1991, p. 2847 ( PDF ; 13.1 MB).
5. ^ Minutes of the plenary session of the 99th meeting. German Bundestag, 12th electoral term, Bonn June 25, 1992, p. 8377 ( PDF ; 15.4 MB).

Remarks

1. ↑ 1969 is mentioned in a compilation of the district of Lüneburg, see
   • District of Lüneburg: Former district administrators and senior district directors ( Memento of the original dated March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . Retrieved January 19, 2010.