Klaus Matthiesen
Klaus Matthiesen (born February 15, 1941 in Gangerschild , Schleswig-Flensburg district , † December 9, 1998 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
From 1983 to 1985 he was Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests and from 1985 to 1995 as Minister for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Agriculture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1973 to 1983 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein , and from 1995 to 1998 he assumed the same position in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Life and work
After graduating from secondary school , Matthiesen initially trained for the middle service of the German Federal Post Office in Eckernförde . He then completed a degree in social work at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Kiel , which he completed with the state examination . He then worked as a youth education officer at the Evangelical Academy in Schleswig-Holstein. From 1968 Matthiesen worked as a lecturer in adult education at the Akademie Sankelmark , an educational institution of the German Border Association .
Klaus Matthiesen was married and had two children.
Political party
Matthiesen had been a member of the SPD since 1962. He belonged to the SPD state executive committee of Schleswig-Holstein and from 1975 also to the SPD federal executive committee.
For the state elections in 1975 and 1979 , Matthiesen was the SPD's top candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein. In the 1975 election, the CDU was able to defend its absolute majority with 50.4% of the vote, Matthiesen remained leader of the opposition . In the 1979 election, the SPD (41.7%), its planned coalition partner FDP (5.7%) and the SSW (1.4%), which was exempt from the five percent hurdle , together won around 9,000 more votes than the CDU (48.3%) from Prime Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg . However, due to special provisions of the state electoral law when assigning mandates, the CDU was able to defend its absolute majority with one seat ahead , so that Matthiesen could not become Prime Minister at the second attempt.
MP
From May 24, 1971, until his resignation on October 5, 1983, Matthiesen was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . From May 3, 1973 to April 12, 1983 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and leader of the opposition. After the state elections in 1983 , he gave the parliamentary group chairmanship to the SPD top candidate Björn Engholm and was deputy parliamentary group chairman until his resignation. Klaus Matthiesen has entered the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament four times in a row as the directly elected member of the constituency No. 1 ( Flensburg- West).
From May 30, 1985 until his resignation on November 4, 1998, Matthiesen belonged to the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , always as a directly elected member of the constituency No. 138 ( Unna III - Hamm I). From June 1, 1995 to November 3, 1998 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group.
Public offices
On October 3, 1983, Matthiesen was appointed Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests in the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Johannes Rau (SPD) . After the state elections in 1985, the Ministry was expanded to include the environment and Klaus Matthiesen was appointed Minister for the Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture on June 5, 1985. In the humid summer of 1992, the environment minister sparked a debate at a press conference claiming that daily showering was "ecological nonsense" and that he showered only once a week. In newspaper polls, the SPD man was then referred to, among other things, as a "dirty minister".
After the SPD had lost its absolute majority in the 1995 state elections after 15 years and therefore formed a coalition with Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , Matthiesen, who was seen as an opponent of " Red-Green ", left the state government on May 24, 1995 to take over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group. The coalition negotiations between the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen dragged on until the beginning of July 1995, so that Prime Minister Johannes Rau managed the Ministry for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Agriculture himself, until on July 17, 1995 Bärbel Höhn (Bündnis 90 / Die Greens) has been appointed as the new minister of this department.
As chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Matthiesen stated that he was following a “clear edge” against coalition partner Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. He advocated the construction of the waste incineration plant in Cologne against the environment minister of the joint government, Bärbel Höhn . In return, the SPD had to reject a request from the CDU for the "great bugging" attack, contrary to its convictions in the state parliament. However , Matthiesen had a special personal friendship with his counterpart in the red-green coalition, the leader of the Green Group, Roland Appel , which is otherwise characterized by mutual taunts .
death
On November 4, 1998, Klaus Matthiesen resigned his mandate in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and the day before also the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group in order to devote himself to a new task outside of politics. He became CEO of the Cologne waste management company Interseroh AG . Only one month later he died unexpectedly on the night of December 9, 1998 in his sleep in his Düsseldorf house.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Matthiesen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Klaus Matthiesen in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein
- Klaus Matthiesen at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ^ Swearing-in of a member of the state government. (PDF; 2 MB) In: Minutes of the plenary 9/81. State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, October 5, 1983, p. 4599 , accessed on May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Klaus Matthiesen and showering . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1992, pp. 211 ( online ).
- ↑ Dramatic mistakes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1995, p. 16 ( online ).
- ↑ Welcome by the Executive President. (PDF; 849 kB) In: Plenary minutes 12/1. State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, June 1, 1995, p. 3 , accessed on May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Presentation and swearing-in of the members of the state government. (PDF; 2.4 MB) In: Plenary minutes 12/5. State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, September 13, 1995, p. 137 , accessed on May 14, 2016 .
- ^ Company Rau & Sons . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1996, pp. 58 ( online ).
- ^ Died: Klaus Matthiesen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1998, pp. 242 ( online ).
agriculture only: Hermann Heukamp (1946–1947) | Heinrich Lübke (1947–1953) | Johannes Peters (1953–1956) | Josef Effertz (1956–1958) | Gustav Niermann (1958–1966) | Diether Deneke (1966–1979) | Hans Otto Bäumer (1979–1983)
Environment and agriculture: Klaus Matthiesen (1983–1995) | Bärbel Höhn (1995–2005) | Eckhard Uhlenberg (2005–2010) | Johannes Remmel (2010–2017) | Christina Schulze Föcking (2017–2018) | Ursula Heinen-Esser (since 2018)
Fritz Henßler (1946–1953) | Fritz Steinhoff (1953–1956) | Emil Groß (1956–1958) | Fritz Steinhoff (1958–1961) | Fritz Kaßmann (1961–1962) | Heinz Kühn (1962–1967) | Johannes Rau (1967–1970) | Fritz Kaßmann (1970–1975) | Dieter Haak (1975–1980) | Karl Josef Denzer (1980–1985) | Friedhelm Farthmann (1985–1995) | Klaus Matthiesen (1995–1998) | Manfred Dammeyer (1998-2000) | Edgar Moron (2000-2005) | Hannelore Kraft (2005–2010) | Norbert Römer (2010–2018) | Thomas Kutschaty (since 2018)
Andreas Gayk (1946–1950) | Bruno Diekmann (1950–1953) | Wilhelm Käber (1953–1966) | Jochen Steffen (1966–1973) | Klaus Matthiesen (1973–1983) | Björn Engholm (1983–1988) | Gert Börnsen (1988–1996) | Ute Erdsiek-Rave (1996–1998) | Lothar Hay (1998-2008) | Ralf Stegner (since 2008)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthiesen, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gang sign , Schleswig-Flensburg district |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1998 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |