Linus Kather

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Linus Kather (born September 22, 1893 in Prossitten ; † March 10, 1983 in Stühlingen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU , from 1954 GB / BHE , later NPD ).

Life

His older brother was Arthur Kather . Linus Kather was a volunteer in the First World War . In 1918 he completed his law studies at the University of Wroclaw and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . From 1920 he was a lawyer and notary in Königsberg . He often defended Catholic clergy before the special court . After the expulsion in 1945 he settled in Hamburg as a lawyer.

In 1945 Kather founded the East German emergency community . From 1949 to 1958 he was chairman of the Central Association of Displaced Germans (ZvD) and the Federation of Displaced Germans (BVD), a forerunner organization of the Association of Displaced Persons (BdV). The law on equalization of burdens was owed to his persistence . On August 5, 1950, he was the first to sign the Charter of German Expellees .

He was a member of the Catholic student associations KAV Suevia Berlin , AV Tuisconia Königsberg and KDStV Winfridia (Breslau) Münster .

Political party

From 1920 to 1933 Kather was a member of the German Center Party . In 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU in Hamburg . After the state elections in 1946, he was designated as the Senator for Social Affairs in the event that the CDU Senate was involved, but this did not happen. From 1950 to 1953 he was a member of the CDU federal executive board and at the same time chairman of the " Landesverband Oder-Neisse " of the CDU. In the dispute over the policy on expellees, Kather switched to GB / BHE on June 15, 1954. He accused Konrad Adenauer of using the displaced persons only as “voting cattle”. In 1959 he became the North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman of the GB / BHE.

He left the GB / BHE in protest against the merger with the DP. In 1969, as a now non-party member of the NPD, he ran in vain for the federal election. In the same year he resigned from all political offices. From 1970 on, Kather led the NPD-affiliated organizations Aktion Deutschland and Aktion Resistance , which were directed against the new Ostpolitik .

MP

From 1930 to 1933 Kather was the only city councilor of the Center Party in Königsberg. Although he was re-elected in 1933, he renounced his mandate as a Nazi opponent.

From 1946 to 1949, Kather was a member of the Hamburg parliament . In 1947/48 he was a member of the Zone Advisory Council for the British zone of occupation. From the first federal election from 1949 to 1957, Kather was a member of the Bundestag and headed the Bundestag committee for expellees from 1949 until he left the CDU . From July 24, 1954 to September 13, 1955, he was deputy group chairman of the GB / BHE.

Publications

  • A right for all Germans. Frankfurt am Main, 1959.
  • The disempowerment of the displaced , two volumes. Munich and Vienna, 1964/65.
  • Halali in East Prussia. Memories of a stolen land. Vaduz 1978.
  • Rightly? Processes. Esslingen 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Tilitzki : Everyday Life in East Prussia 1940–1945. The secret situation reports of the Königsberg justice 1940-1945 . Rautenberg, Leer 1991, pp. 179f.
  2. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  3. ↑ Charter of German expellees. Warmian Family, accessed February 28, 2018 .
  4. ^ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party (= Association Democratic Openness. DemOkrit 3). M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , p. 271.
personal data
SURNAME Kather, Linus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU, 1954 GB / BHE, NPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Prossiten , Warmia
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1983
Place of death Stuehlingen