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Martin Holzfuß (born December 24, 1925 in Beelkow , Schlawe district ; † May 7, 2012 ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and major general in the Bundeswehr . From 1989 to 1994 he was a member of the European Parliament .

Life and work

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He grew up in Western Pomerania , did his Abitur at a boarding school and participated in the Second World War as a graduate of the last officer course of the Wehrmacht . After the war he moved to Maibach - Butzbach , worked in the civil administration of the US Army and began an officer career in the German Armed Forces in 1956 . As part of this, he was trained at military schools in Europe and the USA , including the NATO Defense College . Holzfuß rose to the rank of major general, headed the logistics center of the army from 1978 to 1983 and was then commander in Defense Area IV for Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .

He was married and died in 2012 at the age of 86.

politics

Holzfuß joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1947 and was a founding member of the FDP Hessen in 1948 . He was involved in local politics and was elected as the youngest member of the Friedberger Kreisag in 1954, to which he was a member until 1977. From 2009 until his death he was a district council member in the Wetteraukreis formed in 1972, and most recently its age president . In addition, he was parliamentary group chairman in the city ​​council and local association chairman of the FDP Butzbach.

In the European elections in 1989 , Holzfuß ran for third place on the FDP federal list and was elected to the European Parliament . There he was a member of the LDR parliamentary group , its security policy spokesman and, from 1992, deputy chairman of the budget control committee . He also worked in the Committee on Budgets (until 1992) and in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Security (from 1992) and was a member of the delegation for relations with Czechoslovakia . After the European elections in 1994 , in which the FDP failed to meet the five percent hurdle , he left parliament.

In the Bundestag elections in 1980 and 1987 he ran as a direct candidate in the Wetterau I constituency and received 6.3% (1980) and 4.3% (1987) of the votes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Holzfuß: "85 years of walking German history". In: Wetterauer Zeitung . January 13, 2011, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Bundeswehr agencies under new orders. Ahrweiler district , accessed on August 1, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Publications Office of the European Union (ed.): The Members of the European Parliament: Third electoral period 1989-1994 . Luxembourg 1990, ISBN 92-823-0197-4 , pp. 118 (English, europa.eu [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  4. ^ Co-founder of the Hessian FDP died . In: The world . May 8, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed August 1, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Wetteraukreis mourns Martin Holzfuß. May 9, 2012, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Martin Holzfuß is dead. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 9, 2012, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  7. ^ The election of the members of the European Parliament in Hesse on June 18, 1989 . In: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Contributions to Statistics Hessen . No. 231 , 1990, ISSN  0440-7482 , pp. 9 ( hessen.de [PDF; accessed on August 1, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Lecture evening on security policy on April 10, 1992: "The beginning of a new age" . In: Europa-Union Unterfranken (Hrsg.): Europa-Spiegel . No. 42 . Hammelburg May 1992, p. 4 ( eu-bayern.de [PDF; accessed on August 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Wooden foot, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP) and major general of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Beelkow , district of Schlawe
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2012