Kurt Malangre

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Kurt Malangré (1999)

Kurt Malangré (born September 18, 1934 in Aachen ; † October 4, 2018 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ). For many years he was a member of the Aachen city council and from 1973 to 1989 mayor of the city. From 1979 to 1999 he was a member of the European Parliament .

family

Kurt Malangré came from the originally Walloon family Malangré. His great-grandfather, Augustin Josef Malangré (* 1829 in Haine-Saint-Pierre , † 1876 in Stolberg) was a machinist and entrepreneur in the Stolberg glass industry. His brother was the manager and publisher Heinz Malangré .

Malangré had three children from his marriage to his first wife Ursula, who died in 1977. He had no children with his second wife Wiltrud, with whom he had been married since 1979.

Life

After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium , Malangré studied law and political science at the universities in Bonn and Cologne from 1955 . From 1963 he was admitted to the bar.

His political career began in November 1969 when he joined the Aachen city council. Ten months later, in September 1970, he was elected chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In 1972 he was elected mayor and in the following year he took over the office of mayor, which he held until 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he was district chairman of the CDU and was a member of the Aachen City Council until 1994. As a member of the European Parliament, he campaigned for Aachen to become the seat of the European Environment Agency (EEA), but found no majorities even in his own party. The EEA was located in Copenhagen and started its work there in 1994; several hundred highly qualified jobs could not be won for Aachen.

During his tenure, he worked hard to establish the Euregio Meuse-Rhine and acted as its council chairman for many years.

On his initiative, the graffiti lovers by the Aachen mural painter Klaus Paier were placed under monument protection in 2011 . This mural was created illegally in 1979 during his tenure as Lord Mayor.

Malangré was a member of Opus Dei (Supernumerarians), a personal prelature of the Catholic Church . In 2007 he founded the Kurt Malangré Foundation.

Handel portrait

He was the last owner of the Handel portrait, which was acquired in 2005 by the Sparkasse Halle Foundation in Cologne.

honors and awards

Kurt Malangré has received numerous awards for his political and social work. Among other things, he held the following awards:

In addition, Malangré was an honorary member of the KStV Carolingia Aachen in the KV , the Karlsschützengilde and numerous other clubs. In 2005, at the suggestion of his predecessor Jost Pfeiffer, he was elected honorary chairman of the Aachen CDU by a very large majority. He gave up this honorary chairmanship in November 2013 for health reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Aachen mourns former Mayor Kurt Malangré , accessed on October 4, 2018
  2. ↑ Hans Seeling: Walloon Industrial Pioneers in Germany , Wahle 1983, p. 178
  3. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Melangré, Kurt, p. 291 .
  4. ↑ a b City of Aachen: Chronicle of the City of Aachen from 1976 to 2007 (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  5. ↑ See his essay in: César Ortiz (Ed.): Josemaría Escrivá, Profile einer Gründergestalt. Adamas, Cologne 2002, pp. 289-309.
  6. ^ Website of the Kurt Malangré Foundation
  7. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 5, January 9, 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Malangre, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Mayor of Aachen, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2018
Place of death Aachen