Lauritz Lauritzen

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Lauritz Lauritzen, 1973

Lauritz Lauritzen (born January 20, 1910 in Kiel , † June 5, 1980 in Bad Honnef ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

education and profession

Lauritz Lauritzen - son of Fritz Lauritzen, mayor of Elmschenhagen - attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Viktoria-Gymnasium in Plön . From 1929 he studied law and political science at the University of Freiburg and as a student of the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . Lauritzen finished his studies in 1933 with the first state examination and in 1937 with the second state examination . In 1936 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. During the Nazi era , Lauritzen worked in Berlin from 1937 to 1945, initially as a legal advisor and then as a department head at the Reich Office for Chemistry , which had to monitor and regulate the movement of goods within its area of ​​responsibility.

After the end of the Second World War , Lauritzen worked in 1945 as an advisor to the Berlin magistrate and then to the Rendsburg district . Then Lauritzen was appointed head of the Presidential of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein appointed and 23 November 1946 to 31 January 1951 he was Country Director in the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Schleswig-Holstein .

In 1951 Lauritzen moved to the service of the state of Lower Saxony ; first as Ministerialrat , then from 1953 to 1954 as Ministerialdirigent in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior .

Membership in parties and associations

From 1934 to 1938 Lauritzen was a member of the Reiter SA . He was also a member of the Nazi Legal Guardian Association and the Nazi People's Welfare .

In 1929 Lauritzen joined the SPD. From 1955 to 1963 he was a member of the SPD district board of Hesse- North. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the SPD state executive committee of Schleswig-Holstein. In November 1973 he was nominated by the SPD Schleswig-Holstein as a top candidate for the 1975 state election; after leaving the federal government , however, he renounced the candidacy.

During his tenure as mayor of Kassel, Lauritzen was a member of “ Club 53” around Arnold Bode , which functioned as a workshop for ideas for Documenta 1 .

MP

From December 1, 1966 until his resignation on February 15, 1967, Lauritz Lauritzen belonged to the Hessian state parliament for the 6th electoral term . From October 20, 1969 until his death on June 5, 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag : elected in 1969 and 1976 via the state list of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, in 1972 via a direct mandate in constituency No. 7 (Plön) .

Public offices

From 1954 to 1963 Lauritzen was Lord Mayor of Kassel . From January 31, 1963 to December 1, 1966, he was in the Hessian state government led by Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn as Hessian Minister of Justice and Federal Affairs .

With the formation of the grand coalition of CDU / CSU and SPD, he was on 1 December 1966 as a Federal Minister for Housing and Urban in by Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger led government appointed. After the Bundestag election in 1969 , from which the social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP emerged under Chancellor Willy Brandt , the name of the authority changed on October 22, 1969 to the Federal Ministry for Urban Development and Housing .

Due to a cabinet reshuffle triggered by the resignation of Federal Minister for Economics and Finance Karl Schiller , Lauritzen was appointed Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Federal Minister for Transport on July 7, 1972 in addition to his office as Federal Minister of Construction . He headed three federal ministries at the same time for several months. After the 1972 Bundestag election and the continuation of the social-liberal coalition on December 15, 1972, he only retained the office of Federal Minister of Transport. After the resignation of Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt on May 6, 1974, the previous Federal Minister of Finance, Helmut Schmidt , was elected as the new Federal Chancellor on May 16, 1974. With the assumption of office by the cabinet formed by Schmidt , Lauritzen left the federal government on May 17, 1974.

During Lauritzen's tenure as Federal Building Minister, the Urban Development Promotion Act of 1971 was passed and the Tenant Protection Act was reformed. As Federal Minister of Transport, Lauritzen successfully campaigned for a speed limit of 100 km / h on country roads in 1972 , against the resistance of the ADAC . Due to the oil crisis in 1973, Lauritzen introduced a speed limit of 100 km / h on motorways . After a campaign by ADAC and the Bild newspaper, some of which was directed against Lauritzen personally, the speed limit on motorways was lifted again in March 1974; the Federal Council did not agree to an extension.

He found his final resting place in the forest cemetery of his last residence in Rhöndorf , near the family grave of the first Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer .

Honors

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 318 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 236.
  • Sabine Schneider, Eckart Conze , Jens Flemming , Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar: Pasts - The Kassel Lord Mayors Seidel, Lauritzen, Branner and National Socialism . Schüren, Marburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89472-241-8 .

Web links

Commons : Lauritz Lauritzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's People's Handbook: German Bundestag, 7th electoral period 1972. Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Bad Honnef / Darmstadt 1973, p. 2 (biographical part.)
  2. ↑ Small question from the MP Dr. Johann Wadephul (CDU) and answer from the state government - Prime Minister. (PDF; 97 kB) In: Drucksache 15/2502. Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, February 24, 2003, p. 3 , accessed on December 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Introduced and edited by Teresa Nentwig: The Cabinet Protocols of the Hanoverian and Lower Saxony State Government 1946 to 1951 (= Lower Saxony State Archives, Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research [Hrsg.]: Publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 269 ). tape 2 . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 2012, p. 1631-1632 .
  4. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the major question from MPs Jan Korte, Sevim Dagdelen, Ulla Jelpke, other MPs and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group. - Printed matter 17/4126 - dealing with the Nazi past. (PDF; 945 kB) In: Drucksache 17/8134. German Bundestag, December 14, 2011, p. 13 , accessed December 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ At that time the ADAC distributed stickers with the slogan "We are against Tempo 100". Reminder from user: Jjkorff .
  6. ↑ In February 1974 the ADAC coined the slogan “Free travel for free citizens” . At that time, Lauritzen usually referred to “image” as “Lau-Lau”. Ralf G. Jahn: Lauritz Lauritzen .
  7. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Lauritzen, Lauritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1980
Place of death Bad Honnef