Liselotte Funcke
Liselotte Funcke (born July 20, 1918 in Hagen , Westphalia , † August 1, 2012 there ) was a German politician ( FDP ). She was Vice President of the German Bundestag and Minister for Economics, SMEs and Transport for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . She was also the federal government's first female commissioner for foreigners .
Life
Funcke was born as the fourth child of the manufacturer Oscar Funcke . She passed the Abitur at the Hagen Realgymnasium in 1937 and studied business administration in Berlin . After graduating in business administration in 1941, she worked as an assistant to an auditor until 1944. She then worked as an authorized signatory in the screw factory and drop forge, Funcke & Hueck, founded by her great-grandfather . She held this position until 1969. Liselotte Funcke died on August 1, 2012 at the age of 94.
Her father belonged to the German Bundestag in the first electoral term, also for the FDP.
Political party
Funcke joined the FDP in 1946, a year later she became a member of the party's regional executive committee, in 1964 a member of the federal executive committee and in 1968 of the presidium. From 1948 to 1968 she also headed the state women's committee of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP . From 1967 to 1978 she was district chairman of the FDP Westphalia-West. From 1977 to 1983 Funcke was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Liberals.
Around 1950 she belonged to the leadership group of the young democrats in North Rhine-Westphalia around Willi Weyer and Walter Scheel .
Documents on her political activities are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .
MPs
From 1950 to 1961 she sat in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament, in 1961 she was elected to the German Bundestag , whose vice-president she was from 1969 to 1979. From 1972 to 1979 she was chairwoman of the Bundestag Finance Committee, after having been its deputy chairman from 1965 to 1969.
Public offices
On November 19, 1979, she was appointed as the first woman Minister for Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Transport to the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia led by Prime Minister Johannes Rau . After the FDP failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 1980 state elections , it left the cabinet on June 4, 1980.
From 1981 to July 15, 1991 she was the Federal Government's Commissioner for Foreigners. Because of her commitment to the Turks living in Germany, she was called the "Angel of the Turks".
Others
Funcke was a member of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the Evangelical Church in Germany from 1961 to 1991 . From 1970 to 1993 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .
Awards
- 1973: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1975: Wolfgang Döring Medal
- 1975: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with star and shoulder ribbon
- 1984: Honorary doctorate from Uludağ University in the Turkish city of Bursa
- 1984: Theodor Heuss Medal
- 1984: Moses Mendelssohn Prize
- 1985: Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit
- 1986: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1987: Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit
- 1988: Grand Officer 's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1988: Yugoslavian star with a gold wreath
- 1990: Fritz Bauer Prize of the Humanist Union
- 1990: Commander of the Greek Order of the Phoenix
- 1991: Heinz Herbert Karry Prize
- 1991: Carl von Ossietzky Medal of the International League for Human Rights
- 1999: Honorary doctorate from the University of Hagen
- 2003: Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature
- 2003: Honorary citizen of Hagen
- Honorary chairwoman of the FDP district association Westphalia-West and the FDP district association Hagen.
Fonts
- (Ed.): Women speak in the Bundestag , Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 978-3-87959-111-4 .
- (Ed.): To be free to make others free. Women in politics. The liberals . Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart / Herford 1984, ISBN 3-512-00707-4 .
- Hagen streets tell stories , Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 1999, ISBN 978-3-932070-16-7 .
- Hagen industrial companies. Cloth, scythes, springs, steel , Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2003, ISBN 978-3-932070-44-0 .
- Where our grandparents bought - Hagen retail . Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2009, ISBN 978-3-932070-92-1 .
- Mayor of the city of Hagen for 265 years , Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2011, ISBN 978-3-942184-17-5 .
See also
literature
- Sylvia Heinemann (ed.): To people of their time - Liselotte Funcke - letters from five decades . Ardenkuverlag, Hagen 2004, ISBN 3-932070-52-6 .
- Gerd Rauhaus: Liselotte Funcke (= people of our time ). Transcontact publishing company, Bonn 1977.
Web links
- Literature by and about Liselotte Funcke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Liselotte Funcke in the German Digital Library
- Article about Funcke's 90th birthday
- Funcke's estate in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
- Liselotte Funcke at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
- Jürgen Frölich : For equality and integration. Liselotte Funcke, the federal government's first commissioner for foreigners, would have been 100 years old today , article on the website of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family's obituary in the Westfälische Rundschau, newspaper for Hagen , or WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 4, 2012 ( digitized version ), accessed on September 9, 2013.
- ^ Obituary: Hageners mourn their honorary citizen Liselotte Funcke. derwesten.de, August 2, 2012 , accessed on August 2, 2012.
- ^ Brauers, Die FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953 , p. 465.
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↑ It's funny . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1983 ( online - 24 October 1983 ). Why is everyone against us? In: Die Zeit , January 31, 1986, accessed August 10, 2018.
- ↑ the EKD Advisory Commission for Public Responsibility - FOR 1765 Public - DARIAH Wiki. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
- ↑ Grande Dame. In: General-Anzeiger , July 19, 2008, p. 2.
- ↑ Obituary: Dr. hc Liselotte Funcke died , August 3, 2012 ( memento of October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 9, 2013.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funcke, Liselotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2012 |
| Place of death | Hagen , Westphalia |