Ortwin Lowack

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Ortwin Lowack (born December 25, 1942 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German lawyer and politician in Bayreuth . From 1980 to 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag and from 1978 to 1980 and from 1996 to 2008 a member of the Bayreuth City Council .

Ortwin Lowack around 1990

biography

childhood and education

Ortwin Lowack was the fifth child of the lawyer and notary Gerhard Lowack and his wife Charlotte. In March 1945 his father died as an officer in World War II . His mother fled Gleiwitz with the children in January 1945, and found them in Arzberg , Upper Franconia .

After graduating from high school in Wunsiedel in 1961 and training as a reserve officer (first lieutenant ), Lowack studied law , political science and economics at the universities of FU Berlin , Cologne and Erlangen . Subsequently, after passing the second state examination in law, he worked as a lawyer in Erlangen from 1969 to 1971 . From 1971 to 1974 he then worked as a court assessor and public prosecutor in Bayreuth. Ortwin Lowack has been an independent lawyer in Bayreuth since 1974.

Law

In recent years, Lowack has represented the Pegnitz hotelier Andreas Pflaum in the process surrounding the traditional Posthotel . In the trial of the mentally handicapped Ulvi Kulac , Lowack sought to have the trial reopened for several years. Furthermore, the partnership Lowack & Lowack represented politicians of the Bavarian Greens in the dispute over the constituency reform and the associated design of the constituencies for the state elections in the proceedings before the Bavarian Constitutional Court .

politics

In 1972 Lowack joined the Christian Social Union and was CSU councilor in Seulbitz near Bayreuth until 1974 . In 1976 he stood against the incumbent Hans Walter Wild in the election for Mayor of Bayreuth and achieved a surprisingly good result with 41.6% of the vote. Despite the support of Theo Waigel , Eberhard Diepgen and Franz Josef Strauss, he was defeated by Wild's successor, the SPD candidate Dieter Mronz , in the 1988 election . In 1978 he was elected to the Bayreuth City Council with the highest number of votes of all candidates, from which he left again in 1980. From 1978 to 1982 he was also the CSU district councilor in the Upper Franconian district assembly .

From 1980 to 1994 Lowack was a member of the German Bundestag in Bonn and for several years a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , the Defense Committee and the Legal Committee . At the same time he was the spokesman for Germany, foreign, defense and development policy within the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag. In 1986 Lowack was the rapporteur for the Foreign Service Act and from 1987 to 1991 he was the equal chairman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control alongside Egon Bahr . After leaving the party in April 1991, he remained a non-attached member of the Bundestag until the end of the 12th electoral term in December 1994 .

In May 1994 Ortwin Lowack founded the Free Citizens Union together with former CSU local politicians from the Augsburg area around the former state parliament member Hermann Knipfer . From 1994 to 2002 he was federal chairman of this party and from 1996 to 2008 FBU city councilor for Bayreuth. After a speech at the Barbara celebration of the Oberschlesier Landsmannschaft in 2007, Lowack was criticized for portraying the Germans more as victims of National Socialism and less as perpetrators.

Other offices

Ortwin Lowack was a member of the Federal Presidium of the German Atlantic Society and the German-Israeli Society for several years . He was also Vice President of the Society of Friends of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia .

From 1989 to 2001 Lowack was President of the Federal Delegate Assembly of the Silesian Landsmannschaft , from 1989 to 1999 he was also President of the German-Chinese Society , of which he is now Honorary President.

family

Lowack is a Protestant, married and has two sons and two daughters. His son Gert Lowack was a member of the Bayreuth City Council for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen from 2008 to 2014 and a candidate for the federal election in 2009 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ortwin Lowack . Lawyers Lowack & Angerer. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Lowack, Gerhard (born May 24, 1907)  in the German Digital Library
  3. ↑ With 2.4 million euros, the PPP can be brought back to life . Northern Bavaria. August 10, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  4. ↑ Disabled rapist wants new trial . World N24. November 27, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ The great constituency puzzle . Southgerman newspaper. July 23, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  6. ^ Munich, Prielmayerstraße 5 . Andreas Lösche. July 30, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Rainer Trübsbach : History of the City of Bayreuth. 1194-1994 . Druckhaus Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-922808-35-2 , p. 383 .
  8. ↑ With all my heart for Bayreuth in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of November 27, 2019, p. 11.
  9. ^ Report of the Federal Government on the status of the reform of the Foreign Service (PDF) German Bundestag. October 15, 1986. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ www.oberpfalznetz.de: Lowack shows his own story at Barbarafeier: "Freeing the brain" from 1933-45. Retrieved July 14, 2013 .
  11. ↑ The unknown beings . Time online. August 2, 1991. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  12. ↑ A completely normal state . Time online. February 15, 1991. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lowack, Ortwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU, non-attached), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia