Klaus Thüsing

Klaus Thüsing (born February 22, 1940 in Grevenstein ) is a politician and social scientist and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1977 to 1983 as a member of the SPD .

biography

Klaus Thüsing is the son of a family of teachers, his father was anti-Semitic . Kindergarten age were two Russian forced laborers as a nanny central caregivers for Thüsing, who in 1944 first a Schoolhouse visited before with his family in 1948 from Grevenstein to Balve moved. In his youth Thüsing was active with the St. George Scouts , later he joined the Junge Union . After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Bundeswehr , where he was trained as an officer. Then he began studying at the Paderborn University of Education, where he founded the local branch of the RCDS . 1964 passed his teaching examination in Paderborn. Then studied social sciences, history and politics in Erlangen and Konstanz until 1969 with Ralf Dahrendorf and Wolf-Dieter Narr , among others ; he spent the academic year 1967/68 in Israel. In 1969 he joined the CDU and in 1971 the SPD. His main focus is peace and development policy. He caused a sensation when he, as one of four members of the Bundestag together with Karl-Heinz Hansen , Manfred Coppik and Dieter Lattmann , voted against the contact blocking law. Along with Coppik and Hansen, he also criticized the NATO double decision . While he was excluded from the SPD and the latter resigned, Thüsing remained in the party. As a representative of the German Development Service , he worked in Kenya, Ghana, Botswana and South Africa until 2003.

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 877-878.

Web links

• Archive of Social Democracy
• WDR Interview: His 68 was 71