Kurt Vajen
Kurt Vajen [ ˈfaːjən̩ ] (born May 15, 1936 in Ahausen , Rotenburg district ) is a German politician ( CDU , REP ). From 1978 to 1990 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .
Life
Vajen attended elementary school until 1951 and then completed vocational training in agriculture. In 1960 the examination for agricultural master followed . From 1960 he worked as a self-employed farmer in Wensebrock , Brockel municipality . He joined the Young Union in, and in 1966 he became a member of the CDU. Vajen was a sworn agricultural appraiser and expert in the field of the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture . He was a member of the supervisory board of Überlandwerke Nord-Hannover and head of the water supply association for the Rotenburg (Wümme) district .
politics
From 1972 he was a member of the district council and deputy district administrator in the Rotenburg district . In 1974 he was elected councilor and mayor of the Brockel community and the Bothel community . From 1975 until the district reform he was district administrator of the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, from 1977 he was deputy district administrator. In 1978 he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first time, to which he belonged from the ninth to the eleventh electoral term. After joining the Republicans in September 1989, he resigned from the CDU to forestall an expulsion and was a non-attached member of the state parliament until the end of the electoral term in June 1990. The attempt to enter the state parliament for the Republicans failed.
Vajen is the founder and chairman of the Association of Former Local Politicians in Rotenburg.
controversy
In 1986 it became known that Vajen, as incumbent mayor, had manipulated the local elections in Brockel in several cases. He had given two grandfathers postal ballot papers for their grandchildren and persuaded them to vote on behalf of the young voters. Ernst Albrecht , Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, nevertheless did not part with his MP in order not to endanger the unanimous majority of the CDU and FDP. Even after Vajen was stopped by police officers on August 16, 1987 at night with two per thousand alcohol in his blood and he defended himself against them, Albrecht held on to him. Vajen was fined 18,000 marks in 1988 and had to surrender his driver's license for nine months.
On September 2, 1989, the CDU parliamentary group in Lower Saxony separated from Member of Parliament Kurt Vajen after several scandals, which resulted in the loss of the parliamentary majority in the state parliament. The SPD politician Oswald Hoch , who had recently moved up , announced his exit from the SPD parliamentary group and, as a non-attached MP Ernst Albrecht, secured a majority of 78 votes (CDU / FDP) to 77 votes (SPD Greens) until the end of the legislative period in June 1990.
literature
- Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 387.
Web links
- Lower Saxony: on the heel returns . Der Spiegel 37/1989 of September 11, 1989, p. 106
supporting documents
- ↑ "Association of Former Local Politicians" elects new board. In: Kreiszeitung, February 23, 2012
- ↑ Hinrich Lührssen: One man - one voice: The election forger in the state parliament . The time 42/1988 from October 14, 1988.
- ↑ MPs: Extremely annoying . Der Spiegel 18/1988 of May 2, 1988, p. 106.
- ↑ Lower Saxony: On the silk Vajen . Der Spiegel 35/1989 of August 28, 1989, pp. 26-27.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vajen, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU, REP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ahausen |