Manfred Schulte

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Manfred Schulte (born August 16, 1930 in Hamm , † September 19, 1998 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Schulte was born the son of an authorized representative. After attending elementary school, he passed his Abitur in 1952 at the humanistic grammar school Hammonense in Hamm, interrupted by participation in World War II and being a prisoner of war in the United States. He then first studied philosophy, history and German in Münster . He later switched subjects and began studying law, political science and philosophy in Bonn , which he completed in 1957 with the first state examination and in 1961 with the second state examination. Then Schulte was an assessor judge at the regional court of Hagen and at the local courts of Kamen and Schwerte . From 1962 to 1965 he was legal advisor at the Pelkum office in the Unna district and was later promoted to the senior magistrate. In 1988/89 he acted as managing director of the association of former members of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament .

MP

Manfred Schulte joined the SPD in 1953. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1987. In Parliament he represented the constituency Unna I . From 1967 to 1975 he was parliamentary managing director of the SPD parliamentary group and from 14 May 1975 to 1987 chairman of the parliamentary committee for election review, immunity and rules of procedure.

Under the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Karl Ahrens (SPD), Manfred Schulte was entrusted with difficult secret security issues of NATO during the hot phase of the Cold War at the time of NATO's double resolution, when the world twice shortly before the fall / winter of 1983 the real outbreak of a nuclear war, reports his former research assistant in the German Bundestag and close confidante, the business journalist Hartmut Urban, as a contemporary witness. In 1985, Manfred Schulte was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a Star , particularly because of his active role in autumn / winter 1983 . After leaving the German Bundestag , Manfred Schulte actively supported his wife Brigitte Schulte Member of the Bundestag, particularly in matters of security policy.

family

Manfred Schulte's second wife, Brigitte Schulte , was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 2005 and was parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group from 1987 to 1990 , from 1994 to 1998 deputy defense policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, and on October 27, 1998, she became parliamentary state secretary Appointed to the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at the Federal Minister of Defense . Ms. Schulte was also the spokesperson for the North Atlantic Assembly ( NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PV)) from 1991 to 2005 . From 1993 to 1996 she was chair of the Committee on Civil Affairs.

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Secret documents on NATO maneuvers: The world came so close to a nuclear war in 1983"
  2. ↑ "Just escaping the nuclear war - false alarms in the atomic age" ( Memento from October 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schulte, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1998
Place of death Hamelin