Matthias Hoogen

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Matthias Hoogen (born June 25, 1904 in Straelen on the Lower Rhine ; † July 13, 1985 in Ehrenkirchen ) was a German lawyer and politician ( center , CDU ). He was mayor of Kempen and a member of the German Bundestag . From 1953 to 1964 he was chairman of the legal committee and from 1964 to 1970 military commissioner of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

Hoogen, who was of the Roman Catholic faith, studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin after graduating from high school Thomaeum Kempen . In Freiburg he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Arminia in the CV . He passed the first state examination in 1928 and the second in 1932 . From 1932 he worked as a lawyer in the district of the Krefeld Regional Court , from 1935 also in that of the Bonn Regional Court .

In 1940 he was drafted into the air force and trained as a reserve officer. He then served in the supply force . He was deployed on the Eastern Front and attended the Fürstenfeldbruck Air War School in 1942 . In the same year he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. In 1944 he was judge warrior of the leave of absence of the commanding general and commander in the field Luftgaukommando XXVI and in 1945 chief magistrate of the reserve of the air force in Freiburg im Breisgau .

He was married several times, including the daughter of Philipp Dorneich (managing partner of Herder Verlag ), and the father of a total of four children. His first wife died giving birth to a third child.

politics

Political party

In 1945 Hoogen took part in the re-establishment of the center. Shortly before the 1949 federal election , he joined the CDU.

MP

Hoogen was a member of the Economic Council of the Bizone in 1948/49 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election from 1949 to 1964 and, as a member of parliament that was always directly elected, represented the Kempen-Krefeld constituency in parliament.

From 1949 to 1953 the lawyer was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for patent law and industrial property protection, from 1951/52 he was also chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry to investigate abuses in the Bundestag administration (Platow committee) . From 1953 to 1964 he chaired the Bundestag Committee on Legal Affairs and Constitutional Law (from 1957: Legal Committee), and from 1955 to 1957 he headed the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the amendment of Reich and federal law , which according to today's understanding would be called the Enquête Commission , and 1962 the parliamentary committee of inquiry to examine publicly made allegations about the activities of Federal Minister Franz Josef Strauss in the preparation of a construction project for the construction of apartments for the US armed forces (FIBAG committee) .

As chairman of the Legal Committee, he also represented the Bundestag several times in proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court .

Public offices

From 1948 to 1956, Hoogen was mayor of Kempen .

On December 11, 1964, he resigned his seat in order to become the German Bundestag's defense commissioner until March 1970 . He was elected to this office by 270 votes to 174 with 11 abstentions. Hoogen dealt with a definition of the content of the internal leadership of the Bundeswehr , the core of which he considered the integration of the army into democracy and the social order. By constantly adapting the internal structure to the requirements of modern industrial society, the effectiveness of the armed forces should be increased. In his reports he warned several times of an impending shortage of qualified trainers.

Others

In 1921, at the age of seventeen, he happened to be an ear-witness to the murder of the center politician Matthias Erzberger .

Awards

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 126ff.
  • Rudolf J. Schlaffer : The Armed Forces Commissioner 1951 to 1985. Out of concern for the soldiers (= security policy and armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 5). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58025-9 , p. 348.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 361.
  • Matthias Hoogen , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/1985 of September 2, 1985 Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 44/2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hoogen, Matthias . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 527 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Hoogen, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Straelen
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1985
Place of death Ehrenkirchen