Konrad Kraske
Hans Konrad Ludwig Kraske (born June 5, 1926 in Berlin-Dahlem ; † November 16, 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
After attending elementary school and high school, Kraske was drafted into the armed forces. From 1943 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier, most recently as a sergeant in the reserve, and was most recently taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946. In the spring of 1944 he had passed the secondary school diploma in Berlin .
After his return from captivity studied Kraske history and philosophy in Göttingen and Freiburg , where he in 1951 with a thesis on the influence of the medieval idea of empire to Luther's historical consciousness to Dr. phil. received his doctorate . After completing his studies, Kraske joined the administrative service as deputy press spokesman at the " Blank Office " of the Federal Chancellery in Bonn , but resigned there in 1952 after his ideas about the democratization of military education met resistance from the former Wehrmacht officers around Bogislav von Bonin who also worked there were.
On November 28, 1953, Kraske married Gudula Brigitte Charlotte Ehrensberger, daughter of the lawyer Otto Adolf Julius Ehrensberger . Konrad Kraske was a grandson of the surgeon Karl Friedrich Paul Kraske . Kraske's older brother Peter (1923–2019) was a Protestant theologian and temporarily head of the church chancellery of the Evangelical Church of the Union.
In 1962 Konrad Kraske was one of the founding members of the ZDF Television Council , which he chaired from 1992 to 2002.
From 1981 to 1988 he held a lectureship in political science at his alma mater.
Political party
Kraske joined the CDU and since 1952 has taken on various activities in the party's federal office. From 1953 to 1956 he was federal chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) and from 1956 to 1958 deputy chairman of the Society for Christian Democratic Education . From 1953 to 1958 he was deputy federal manager and then federal manager of the CDU until 1970. As such, he headed the organization of the federal election campaigns in 1961, 1965 and 1969. He had been a member of the CDU federal executive committee since 1969 and was general secretary of the party from 1971 to 1973 . Kraske played a key role in building up and deepening the cooperation between the CDU and the English conservatives in the sixties and early seventies.
MP
Kraske was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1980. He represented the constituency of Dinslaken in the fifth electoral term (1965–1969) and entered parliament from the sixth to eighth electoral period (1969–1980) via the CDU state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 451-452.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Kraske in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marcus Gonschor, Hinnerk Meyer: Konrad Kraske: Interview. (pdf, 900 kB) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, February 11, 2011, archived from the original on November 11, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The man who does the work": The Konrad Adenauer Foundation mourns Konrad Kraske . Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , November 17, 2016, accessed on November 18, 2016.
- ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus, Ludolf Herbst (ed.), Bruno Jahn (collaborator): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, p. 451.
- ↑ RCDS mourns Konrad Kraske .
- ↑ Martina Steber: The guardians of the concepts. Conservative Political Languages in Great Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 380 f.
Fritz Flick and Ernst Benda (1951–1952) | Wolfgang Brüggemann (1952–1953) | Konrad Kraske (1953–1956) | Willfried Gaddum (1956–1958) | Walter Konrad (1958–1959) | Dieter Ibielski (1959–1961) | Martin Ratmann (1961–1962) | Hans-Jürgen Vogt (1962–1963) | Kurt Struppek (1963–1965) | Gert Hammer (1965–1967) | Wulf Schönbohm (1967–1968) | Uwe-Rainer Simon (1968–1970) | Gerd Langguth (1970–1974) | Ulrich Schröder (1974–1975) | Hans Reckers (1975–1977) | Friedbert Pflüger (1977–1978) | Günther Heckelmann (1978–1979) | Stephan Eisel (1979–1980) | Stefan Dingerkus (1980–1981) | Johannes Weberling (1981–1983) | Franz Dormann (1983–1985) | Christoph Brand (1985–1987) | Jürgen Hardt (1987–1989) | Christian Schede (1989–1990) | Marcel Kaufmann (1990–1991) | Christian Schneller (1991–1992) | Eckhard Wälzholz (1992–1993) | Tamara Zieschang (1993-1994) | Oliver Röseler (1994–1995) | Wichard von der Heyden (1995–1996) | Rasmus Tenbergen (1996-1997) | Oliver Nölken (1997–1998) | Fabian Magerl (1998–1999) | Mario Voigt (1999–2000) | Carsten Schwarz (2000–2001) | Lars Kasischke (2001–2002) | Barbara von Wnuk-Lipinski (2002–2004) | Dorlies Last (2004–2006) | Tim Küsters (2006–2007) | Matthias Kutsch (2007–2008) | Gottfried Ludewig (2008–2010) | Stefan Holz (2010) | Dennis Kahle (2010–2011) | Frederik Ferreau (2011–2012) | Erik Bertram (2012–2013) | Martin Röckert (2013–2015) | Jenovan Krishnan (2015-2017) | Henrik Wärner (2017–2019) | Sebastian Mathes (since 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraske, Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraske, Hans Konrad Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Dahlem |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2016 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |