Lutz Stavenhagen
Lutz-Georg Stavenhagen (born May 6, 1940 in Jena , † May 31, 1992 in Pforzheim ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1985 to 1987 he was Minister of State in the Foreign Office and from 1987 to 1991 Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery .
Origin and family
For professional reasons - his father was a chemist from Jena - Stavenhagen attended schools in Oberkirch / Baden (1950-1951 and 1953-1954), in Barranquilla / Columbia (1951-1952), Ootacamund / India (1954-1956) and laid his Abitur in 1959 at the Schiller-Gymnasium in Offenburg.
One of the ancestors was the composer Bernhard Stavenhagen . Lutz Stavenhagen was married to the stepdaughter of the former managing director of the Pforzheimer Knoll & Pregizer jewelry and watch factories since 1965 and had two daughters. His wife Christine (née Hofmann) was a member of the Pforzheim municipal council from 1989 until her death in 2015 and ran for the CDU's internal election as CDU Bundestag candidate in 2002, but was defeated by Gunther Krichbaum, who later became a member of the Bundestag . Stavenhagen's daughter Viktoria Schmid was a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg for the CDU from 2011 to 2016 .
Wolfgang Schäuble remained a close friend and political companion of both Stavenhagen and his family .
education and profession
Stavenhagen did his military service in the air force and then studied from 1960 business and economics at the University of Saarbrücken and the University of Tübingen , where he obtained his degree in business administration . In 1968 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. with work problems of pricing on the international petroleum market.
Stavenhagen was initially in 1964 as an assistant for the Oest group in Freudenstadt operates 1967-1969 as personnel manager of the German branch Hobart GmbH of US Group Hobart in Offenburg and subsequent to 1972 CEO of Knoll & Pregizer.
Political career
Since 1964 he was a member of the CDU and later also belonged to the state executive committee of the CDU Baden-Württemberg .
From 1972 until his death, Stavenhagen was a member of the German Bundestag , always as a directly elected member . Most recently he achieved 46.9% of the first votes in the 1990 Bundestag election in the Pforzheim constituency .
After the sudden death of the diplomat and State Minister Alois Mertes Stavenhagen was on September 4, 1985 as Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the of Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. After the federal election in 1987 , Stavenhagen succeeded Minister of State Friedrich Vogel and was Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery from March 12, 1987 to December 3, 1991 .
At the beginning of December 1990, Stavenhagen, in his capacity as Federal Government Commissioner for the Intelligence Services, submitted a four-page report “on the stay-behind organization of the Federal Intelligence Service ”.
As a secret service coordinator in the Federal Chancellery - contrary to the statement of the former BND President Hans-Georg Wieck - neither informed about “help” to Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski from the Federal Intelligence Service “for example by issuing a passport ... in the name of 'Gutmann', the Maiden name of Ms. Schalck-Golodkowski “about the involvement of the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Armed Forces and the Israeli Mossad in deliveries of armaments from the stocks of the former National People's Army of the GDR a . a. to Israel (see tank affair ).
Stavenhagen asked for his release and left office on December 2, 1991.
On May 31, 1992 Stavenhagen died at the age of 52 years at a pneumonia and was buried in the main cemetery in Pforzheim.
In his honor, a guest professorship was established at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( The Stavenhagen Guest Professorship ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christine Stavenhagen died: this is what long-time companions say , Pforzheimer Zeitung of November 10, 2015
- ^ Black hole in "Flute" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1991, pp. 30-32 ( online - December 9, 1991 ).
- ↑ Affairs: In the dark . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1991, pp. 31 ( online - 16 September 1991 ).
- ↑ "Exaggerated secrecy". Interview with State Minister Lutz Stavenhagen about a reform of the Federal Intelligence Service . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1991, p. 28-34 ( Online - May 20, 1991 ).
- ↑ The machine does what it wants . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1991, pp. 30-38 ( online - 4 November 1991 ).
- ^ Died: Lutz Stavenhagen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1992, pp. 266 ( online - June 8, 1992 ).
- ^ The Stavenhagen Guest Professorship
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stavenhagen, Lutz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stavenhagen, Lutz-Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1992 |
| Place of death | Pforzheim |