Otto Regenspurger

Otto Regenspurger, Member of the Bundestag a. D.

Otto Regenspurger (* 24. December 1939 in Untersiemau ; † 11. June 2003 ) was a German politician of the CSU .

Career

Otto Regenspurger attended a foreign correspondents and administration school. After the administrative examination, he received a degree in administrative management. From 1955 to 1972 he worked in the middle and from 1972 to 1976 in the upper postal service.

Regenspurger was from 1966 to 1977 local chairman of the German postal association Coburg in the German civil service association (DBB) and from 1969 to 1976 chairman of the staff council. From 1971 he was the deputy district chairman of the German Postal Union Nuremberg (Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia).

From 1983 Otto Regenspurger was even Deputy Federal Chairman of the DBB . In addition, he acted as deputy chairman of the board of directors of Deutsche Beamtenversicherung and chairman of the DBB automobile club (ACDB).

politics

Otto Regenspurger joined the CSU and the Junge Union in 1966. From 1968 to 1974 he was district chairman of the Junge Union Coburg-Land and from 1973 to 1975 a member of the regional board of the Junge Union Bayern. There he headed the social policy working group. From 1973 to 1987 he was district chairman of the CSU Coburg-Land and from 1975 a state board member of the Christian Social Workers' Union of Bavaria. For many years he was the state chairman of the CSU public service working group.

Regenspurger was active in local politics since 1972 as a councilor in his home town of Untersiemau and from 1972 to 1978 as a district councilor for the Coburg state.

From 1976 to 1998 Otto Regenspurger was a member of the German Bundestag and was always directly elected in the Coburg constituency. In 1983 and 1990 he won 55.9 and 54.3 percent of the first votes and thus the best results in the Coburg constituency.

At the same time, Regenspurger was deputy chairman of the CSU regional group and civil service spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . He was also a member of the ZDF television council .

Otto Regenspurger was also a member of the Regulatory Council of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications. Nonetheless, from 1982 to 1998 he was the Federal Government Commissioner for the interests of people with disabilities with the rank of honorary State Secretary. In this function he was assigned to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . The amendment to Article 3 in the Basic Law that no one may be disadvantaged because of their disability was unanimously passed by the German Bundestag on June 30, 1994 during his term of office as Commissioner for the Disabled.

Memberships in committees of the Bundestag

Full member
- Petitions Committee , chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the 9th electoral term
- Home Committee

Honors

1982: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
1986: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
1991: Bavarian Order of Merit
1993: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, presented by Norbert Blüm
1994: Laughing official gray of the DBB Beamtenbund and tariff union
2002: Honorary citizen of the Untersiemau community

family

Otto Regenspurger was married and lived with his wife in Untersiemau. The couple has two sons and four grandchildren. Moritz Regenspurger, his eldest grandson, was elected to the Bad Rodach City Council on March 15, 2020.

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N – Z, Appendix. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 671.

Web links

Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

↑ OFFICIALS: Extremely petty . In: Der Spiegel . tape June 24 , 1983 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 27, 2018]).

^ Neustadtkurier: German unity can be financed without envy tax. (PDF) Retrieved December 27, 2018 .

↑ Archived copy ( Memento from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

^ German Bundestag: MdB biographies of the 13th electoral period / biography of MdB Otto Regenspurger, CSU. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .

↑ Otto Regenspurger (Ed.): The new protection against discrimination for the disabled in the Basic Law. Origin and scope of the prohibition of discrimination (Article 3, Paragraph 3, Sentence 2, Basic Law), Bonn 1995, p. 39.

↑ "Laughing official mold" - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer receives the medal. February 20, 2014, accessed January 29, 2019 .

↑ In the footsteps of grandfather. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Regenspurger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Untersiemau
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 2003

[1] OFFICIALS: Extremely petty . In: Der Spiegel . tape June 24 , 1983 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 27, 2018]).

[2] Neustadtkurier: German unity can be financed without envy tax. (PDF) Retrieved December 27, 2018 .

[3] Archived copy ( Memento from July 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[4] German Bundestag: MdB biographies of the 13th electoral period / biography of MdB Otto Regenspurger, CSU. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .

[5] Otto Regenspurger (Ed.): The new protection against discrimination for the disabled in the Basic Law. Origin and scope of the prohibition of discrimination (Article 3, Paragraph 3, Sentence 2, Basic Law), Bonn 1995, p. 39.

[6] "Laughing official mold" - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer receives the medal. February 20, 2014, accessed January 29, 2019 .

[7] In the footsteps of grandfather. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .