Konrad Porzner

Konrad Porzner (born February 4, 1935 in Larrieden in the Feuchtwangen district ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance , 1981 Senator for Finance of the State of Berlin , 1981 to 1982 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and from 1990 to 1996 President of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Education, job and private life

After graduating from secondary school in Ansbach in 1954 , Porzner completed a teaching degree in economics and geography in Erlangen , which he completed in 1959 with the first state examination and in 1961 with the second state examination for higher education. In 1955 he became a member of the musical student association AMV Fridericiana Erlangen . After graduating, he worked as a teacher at the Adam-Kraft-Gymnasium in Schwabach until 1962 .

Porzner belonged to the field handball team of TSV Ansbach , which won the German championship twice. He has three brothers who also played handball: Heinz Porzner, Helmut Porzner and Erwin Porzner .

He has been a member of the SPD since 1956. Konrad Porzner is married and has four children.

MP

From 1960 to 1963 Porzner was a member of the city council of his hometown Ansbach . On May 21, 1962, Porzner replaced the deceased MP Richard Reitzner in the German Bundestag . From 1969 to 1972 he was deputy chairman of the finance committee and from June to December 1972 he was also deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . From December 18, 1974 until his resignation on January 28, 1981, Porzner was then the parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group.

After the Bundestag election in 1983 , Porzner was again a member of the German Bundestag and was again Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 until his resignation on October 2, 1990, he was Chairman of the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure . Porzner has always entered the Bundestag via the Bavarian state list.

Public offices

On December 15, 1972, Porzner was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt . On December 20, 1974, he resigned from office because he had been elected parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group.

In January 1981 Porzner was appointed Senator for Finance in the Senate of the State of Berlin headed by Hans-Jochen Vogel . Since the SPD was unable to achieve a majority in the early parliamentary elections in 1981, Porzner resigned from the Senate in July 1981. Shortly afterwards, on July 15, 1981, Porzner was appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation. After the change of government in autumn 1982 ( "Wende" ) he was put into temporary retirement on October 12, 1982 .

From the beginning of October 1990 to June 4, 1996, Porzner was then President of the Federal Intelligence Service. Under his responsibility, Operation Hades was carried out by the Federal Intelligence Service in 1994 , with which it was intended to prove that plutonium was traded around the world at that time. The action became known and in 1995 resulted in the BND's " plutonium affair ".

State medals

Bavarian Order of Merit , awarded on June 16, 1971 by Prime Minister Alfons Goppel .

Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded in 1978

Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded on May 6, 1986 by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

literature

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 294.
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. 652-653.

Web links

Literature by and about Konrad Porzner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Yearbook ( Memento from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Wrong beards, wrong friends . The mirror. January 1, 1996. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
↑ "Merits for the Bavarian people ... The bearers of the Bavarian Order of Merit 1958–1988", p. 170, Verlag RS Schulz, Landshut 1988, ISBN 3-7962-0173-3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Porzner, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Larrieden , Feuchtwangen district

[1] Yearbook ( Memento from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Wrong beards, wrong friends . The mirror. January 1, 1996. Retrieved May 9, 2017.

[3] "Merits for the Bavarian people ... The bearers of the Bavarian Order of Merit 1958–1988", p. 170, Verlag RS Schulz, Landshut 1988, ISBN 3-7962-0173-3 .