Lorenz Niegel
Lorenz Niegel (born June 20, 1933 in Lichtenfels ; † July 25, 2001 there ) was a German engineer and politician ( CSU ).
Life and work
Niegel was born the son of a tax council. After attending grammar school in Bamberg , he began studying at the engineering school for agriculture in Triesdorf , which he completed with the examination to become a qualified engineer for agriculture (FH). From 1955 to 1962 he was district manager and then until 1969 press officer in the general secretariat of the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV). He later worked as a management consultant .
He was a member of the Catholic Kolping Society and the Werkvolks . Niegel was married and had four children.
politics
Political party
Niegel had been a member of the CSU since 1955. He joined the Junge Union (JU), was district chairman of the JU Lichtenfels from 1956 to 1960 and district chairman of the JU Upper Franconia from 1959 to 1963 . He was also a member of the state executive committee of the JU from 1963 to 1971.
MP
Niegel was a member of the German Bundestag for six electoral terms from 1969 to 1990 . He was always elected to parliament through a direct mandate in the Kulmbach constituency. Niegel was a full member of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry. In addition, he was a full member of the Committee for Petitions , the Committee for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development, the Committee for Economics and the Committee for Urban Development and Housing, and the Committee for Internal German Relations in individual electoral terms. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU). From 1988 to 1991 he was Vice Chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Council of Europe.
Politically, Niegel represented right-wing conservative positions. So he turned against, among other things, against the East Treaties of the Brandt government. In the votes in the Bundestag during the reunification, he voted several times against treaties that recognized the German-Polish border ( see Herbert Czaja ).
In 1985, he stayed away from the speech by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker on the day of liberation , as he saw May 8, 1945 as "a day of deepest humiliation".
Conflict with Klaus Bednarz
On July 11, 1989, Niegel and twelve television viewers filed a criminal complaint against Klaus Bednarz , moderator of the ARD magazine Monitor . He had in his mission soldiers in the hypothetical case of an outbreak of war in Europe for desertion called. The prosecution closed the case in August 1989.
Honors
- 1978: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1981: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1982: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1987: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 603-604.
Web links
- Lorenz Niegel at the Parliamentary Assembly
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias von Hellfeld : Model of the past. Right-wing extremists and neoconservative idealogies in the Federal Republic (= Small Library, 454: Politics and Contemporary History). Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7609-1148-X , p. 136.
- ↑ For 18 years Klaus Bednarz shaped Monitor ( Memento from December 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niegel, Lorenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lichtenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 2001 |
| Place of death | Lichtenfels |