Klaus Kinkel

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Klaus Kinkel, 2017

Klaus Kinkel (born December 17, 1936 in Metzingen ; † March 4, 2019 in Sankt Augustin ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and lawyer . From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Federal Intelligence Service , from 1991 to 1992 Federal Minister of Justice , from 1992 to 1998 Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and from 1993 to 1998 Vice Chancellor . From 1993 to 1995 he was also federal chairman of the FDP.

Klaus Kinkel, FDP chairman, at the party conference in Rostock in 1994, together with Ulrich Brinkhoff and Monika Brinkhoff.

Life and work

Klaus Kinkel, eldest of two sons with a Westphalian father and a Swabian mother, grew up in Hechingen . His father, who returned from Soviet captivity in 1946 , was an internist and cardiologist .

After graduating from high school in Hechingen in 1956 , Kinkel first completed an internship for medical students in surgery at the district hospital in Balingen and began studying medicine in Tübingen . But he quickly switched to law at the University of Tübingen and later at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1960 he finished his studies with the first state examination in Tübingen. After completing his legal clerkship at the Hechingen Regional Court, he passed the second state examination in 1965. 1964 Kinkel was at the University of Cologne with the work , the teaching of Popitz for the design of municipal revenue sharing for Dr. jur. PhD . He then joined the Federal Office for Civil Protection , the forerunner of the Federal Office for Civil Protection , which was part of the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . In 1966 he applied unsuccessfully for the mayor's office in his city. From 1966 to 1968 he was seconded to the Balingen district office. After his return to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Kinkel was personal advisor to Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher from 1970 to 1974 , most recently as head of the ministerial office.

After Genscher became Foreign Minister in May 1974 ( Schmidt I cabinet ), Kinkel became head of the management staff in the Foreign Office and in 1979 head of the planning staff.

After the end of his tenure as Federal Foreign Minister due to the change of government as a result of the Bundestag election in 1998 , he worked as a lawyer in Sankt Augustin . He later returned his license to practice as a lawyer. Kinkel was involved in numerous social projects for the needs of people with disabilities as well as to promote the willingness to donate organs . In 2006, Kinkel was the “ambassador” for the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities . From 2003 to the end of 2014 he was chairman of the Deutsche Telekom Foundation .

Kinkel had been married to his wife Ursula ("Uschi") born in 1962. Vogel and father of four children. His oldest daughter died in a traffic accident in 1982 at the age of 20. He lived in Sankt Augustin-Schmerbroich . Like his father and grandfather, Kinkel had been a member of the Catholic student union AV Guestfalia Tübingen since 1956 in the CV , where on January 14, 2019, he and the television presenter Claus Kleber , also a member of AV Guestfalia Tübingen, held the discussion group “World in upheaval - where is the West? ”occupied.

Klaus Kinkel died on March 4, 2019 in Sankt Augustin of complications from cancer.

Political party

Kinkel only joined the FDP in 1991 shortly after his appointment as Federal Minister. From June 11, 1993 to June 10, 1995 he was federal chairman of the FDP . During his tenure as federal chairman, there were 14 elections in which the FDP suffered considerable losses; it failed to make it into parliament in twelve state elections and the European elections . Kinkel therefore did not stand for re-election after the end of his term as federal chairman in 1995; his successor was Wolfgang Gerhardt .

MP

From 1994 to 2002 Kinkel was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1998 to 2002 he was deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group . Kinkel has always entered the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. The documents about his activities as deputy parliamentary group chairman are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Public offices

Klaus Kinkel, President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), 1981

From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Federal Intelligence Service . In October 1982 he was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice under Hans A. Engelhard . After the general election in 1990 , he was on 18 January 1991 as Federal Minister of Justice in the by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed.

After Hans-Dietrich Genscher's resignation , Kinkel was appointed Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs on May 18, 1992. When the then Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs Jürgen Möllemann resigned from his position in January 1993 , Kinkel also became the Federal Chancellor's deputy on January 21, 1993. In 1993 he summarized the goals of domestic and foreign policy as he pursued them:

“Two tasks have to be mastered in parallel: internally we have to become a people again, externally we have to accomplish something that we have failed to do twice before [note: this refers to the developments that resulted in two world wars] To find harmony with our neighbors in a role that corresponds to our desires and our potential. The return to normality both internally and externally corresponds to a deep desire of our people since the end of the war. It is now also necessary if we want to remain respected in the international community. […] Our citizens have understood that the time of our state of emergency [Note: what is meant is the division of the country into the FRG and GDR by 1989] is over. "

- Responsibility, realism, future security. German foreign policy in a world that is reorganizing itself. In: FAZ , March 19, 1993

After the 1998 federal election and the associated change of government, Kinkel left the federal government on October 26, 1998.

Klaus Kinkel is assigned the following quote about Europe:

"Europe does not grow from treaties, it grows from the hearts of its citizens or not at all."

- Klaus Kinkel before the UN General Assembly on September 23, 1992

Social Commitment

Awards

Cabinets

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Klaus Kinkel  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Kinkel - Munzinger biography. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Kinkel in conversation with Isabella Schmid , BR-Alpha, December 15, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Robin Szuttor: Klaus Kinkel. Homeland Hohenzollern. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. February 7, 2013, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Former Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b We mourn Dr. Klaus Kinkel | Deutsche Telekom Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Interview about his daughter's accident and his changed attitude towards organ donation . In: Focus , No. 24 (1997).
  7. ↑ He lived in Sankt Augustin - ex-Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel is dead. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Molitor: The Bonn officials sleep in Sankt Augustin - the protest against the government's move to Berlin is cooking on a low flame: the city of happy people. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 20, 1996, Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ AV Guestfalia Tübingen: Semester program WS 2018/2019. In: AV Guestfalia Tübingen . Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ex-Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel is dead. In: zdf.de. March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Wolfram Neidhard: An upright and humble man. In: n-tv.de. March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Torsten Krauel: Obituary for Klaus Kinkel: Immune to the feeling of looking at the country from above. In: The world . March 5, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: The shadow warrior. Klaus Kinkel and the BND. Econ, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-430-18014-7 .
  14. ↑ The bucket is full , article from May 4, 1992 on Spiegel Online .
  15. ↑ Werner A. Perger: Pandora's box remains closed - The Foreign Ministers of the Twelve swear their will to persevere: Maastricht should not be changed. In: Zeit Online . September 25, 1992, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Brochure from the Bundesliga Foundation; P. 47 ( Memento of May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.8 MB).
  18. ↑ Kinkel: "DFB foundations do a good work". In: DFB.de , April 29, 2017.
  19. ↑ The DFB mourns the loss of Dr. Klaus Kinkel , accessed on March 5, 2019.
  20. ^ Homepage Liberal Turkish-German Association .
  21. ^ DGVN Presidium .
  22. ↑ Supporters of the Cura Victims Fund ( Memento from August 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
  23. ^ Mourning for Klaus Kinkel. In: www.dino-muenster.de. March 5, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Sabine Lennartz:Klaus Kinkel, the Swabian diplomat, is dead. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of March 5, 2019.
  25. ↑ KSC mourns honorary member Klaus Kinkel , Karlsruher SC, accessed March 6, 2019.
  26. ↑ FDP awards Dr. Klaus Kinkel Reinhold-Maier Medal. Former Federal Foreign Minister honored as a great liberal personality , FDP Baden-Württemberg, December 3, 2005, accessed on March 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kinkel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Metzingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2019
Place of death Saint Augustine