Ottfried Hennig
Ottfried Hennig (born March 1, 1937 in Königsberg / East Prussia , † October 19, 1999 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1982 to 1991 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Internal German Relations and from January 1991 to April 1992 at the Federal Minister of Defense .
Life
After the expulsion of the family from East Prussia in 1957 Hennig made at the Old School Flensburg , the High School . He then completed a degree in law and economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Kiel , which he completed in 1962 with the first state examination . In Freiburg he became a member of the Corps Suevia . He then was a research assistant at Boris Meissner's chair for Eastern Law and began working for the CDU's federal office in 1963. There he was most recently head of the radio and television department. From 1967 to 1971 he was the personal assistant to the chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Rainer Barzel .
1976 doctorate he with the work of the federal presence in West Berlin - development and legal character of Dr. jur. at the University of Cologne .
politics
Hennig had been a member of the CDU since 1961, and from 1972 to 1973 it was federal manager. From April 1989 to March 1997 he was state chairman of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1969 to 1975 he belonged to the district assembly of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis and was most recently chairman of the CDU parliamentary group .
From 1976 until his resignation on May 31, 1992, Hennig was a member of the German Bundestag . In 1976 he was directly elected in the constituency of Bielefeld I and in 1980 , 1983 and 1987 in the constituency of Gütersloh . In the 1990 Bundestag election , he entered the Bundestag via the Schleswig-Holstein state list of the CDU .
On October 4, 1982 Hennig was used as Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister for Intra-German relations into those of Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. After the federal election in 1990 , he changed to the Federal Minister of Defense on January 24, 1991 in the same function. After the resignation of Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg , Hennig left the government on April 1, 1992.
In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 1992 and 1996 he was the CDU's top candidate for the office of Prime Minister . However, he could not prevail against the respective incumbents Björn Engholm and Heide Simonis (both SPD ). From 1992 until his resignation on May 5, 1997, he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group and leader of the opposition . He moved in in 1992 via the state list and in 1996 as a directly elected member of the constituency of Rendsburg -Ost.
Hennig's factual political style and his integrity-based personality contributed to the fact that the state CDU, shaken by the Barschel affair , was able to gain a foothold again.
Others
Hennig was a member of the board of directors of Deutschlandfunk from 1969 to 1973 and from 1984 until his death . From 1979 to 1990 he was the spokesman (federal chairman) of the East Prussian Landsmannschaft . He withdrew from this office at a special meeting of the East Prussian State Representation (OLV) in September 1990. A majority of the OLV recognized the inevitability of border recognition in the course of the reunification of Germany, but disapproved of Hennig's approval as the elected spokesman for East Prussia to the border recognition treaty with Poland at the Bundestag session on June 21, 1990. Hennig's successor in this function was initially (provisionally) Harry Poley , then from 1992 Wilhelm von Gottberg .
From 1997 to 1999 Hennig was Secretary General of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .
Ottfried Hennig was married and had one child. He died of cancer at the age of 62.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Ottfried Hennig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ottfried Hennig in the State Parliament Information System Schleswig-Holstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diethart Goos: Ottfried Hennig - The Renewer of the North CDU died at the age of 62 , Die Welt, October 21, 1999.
Carl Schröter (1946–1951) | Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke (1951–1954) | Kai-Uwe von Hassel (1955–1964) | Helmut Lemke (1964–1971) | Gerhard Stoltenberg (1971–1989) | Ottfried Hennig (1989–1997) | Peter Kurt Würzbach (1997-2000) | Johann Wadephul (2000–2002) | Peter Harry Carstensen (2002–2010) | Christian von Boetticher (2010–2011) | Jost de Jager (2011-2013) | Reimer Böge (2013–2014) | Ingbert Liebing (2014–2016) | Daniel Günther (since 2016)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hennig, Ottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bonn |