Paul Gap

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Paul Gap, 1962

Paul Lücke (born November 13, 1914 in Schöneborn near Marienheide , † August 10, 1976 in Erlangen ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was from 1957 to 1965 Federal Minister of Construction and 1965-1968 Federal Minister of the Interior .

Life

Paul Lücke was born the son of a stone carver. After attending elementary school , Lücke completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1928 to 1931 and did his military service in 1935. During the Second World War , in addition to his service as a fireworker and weapons officer in the Wehrmacht in Berlin, he studied mechanical engineering . In 1944 he lost a leg in an attack by the Resistance and was temporarily blind. After the war, he worked as a municipal official in the Oberbergischer Kreis , most recently from 1947 as an official director in Engelskirchen . From 1954 to 1966 he was President of the German Congregational Assembly. In 1962, Lücke was President of the 79th German Catholic Convention in Hanover . From 1969 until his death he was head of the German Housing Association in Cologne .

In 1970 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in Cologne Cathedral on December 5, 1970 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Lücke was married to the Austrian Rosa Katharina Fussenegger (1920–2000) from 1946 and had six children. The couple's grave is located in the Bensberg cemetery (grave no. 2584a + b).

His daughter Maria Theresia Opladen (* 1948) became a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and mayor of Bergisch Gladbach .

Political party

Lücke was involved in the Catholic youth and in 1945 was one of the founders of the CDU in the Oberbergischer Kreis. After the resignation of the FDP ministers due to the Spiegel affair , he explored the possibilities for a grand coalition with Herbert Wehner ( SPD ) together with Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg ( CSU ) from November 26, 1962 with the approval of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . These explorations turned into official coalition negotiations on December 1, 1962. However, they failed on December 5th because the CDU was not ready to talk about a further chancellorship of Adenauer. From 1966 to 1969 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of his party.

MP

From 1949 to 1972 Lücke was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was from March 14, 1950 to 1957 chairman of the Committee for Reconstruction and Housing. As committee chairman, he pushed through the creation of the Condominium Act , which made it possible to build condominiums. The introduction of the housing bonus for home savings law has been initiated by him. In 1952 and 1955, Lücke was one of a group of members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group who introduced a bill to introduce relative majority voting in the Bundestag. However, these draft bills were not pursued further in the electoral committee of the German Bundestag .

Paul Lücke has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis .

Public offices

Gap (center left) with religious dignitaries, Bonn 1961

Since 1947 Lücke was the official director of the Engelskirchen community .

On October 29, 1957, Lücke was appointed Federal Minister for Housing in the federal government led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . From November 14, 1961, he continued his office under the name of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Regional Planning and initially also headed it under Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . During his term of office, the law on the dismantling of the forced housing economy and on social tenancy and housing law was passed. It came into force in 1960, brought about a significant restriction on public housing management, gradually released housing rents and introduced housing benefit .

After the federal election in 1965 , he was appointed Federal Minister of the Interior on October 26, 1965 ( Erhard II cabinet ). He also retained this office in the cabinet of the grand coalition led by Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger ( Kiesinger cabinet from December 1966). During this term of office, he prepared the emergency constitution , which was passed just under two months after he left office. As Federal Minister of the Interior, he again advocated the introduction of relative majority voting. This plan was particularly rejected by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . There was also considerable resistance in the SPD after model calculations had shown that, according to all models discussed at the time (single, triple and quadruple constituencies), absolute mandate majorities of the CDU / CSU could be expected in the long term. After the SPD party congress, against the will of the party executive, decided to postpone the issue until after the federal election in September 1969 , the project had to be viewed as a failure. Lücke resigned on March 28, 1968 after several days of threats to resign; his successor on April 2nd was Ernst Benda , who had previously been the parliamentary state secretary under hiatus.

honors and awards

Publications

  • Paul Lücke: Isn't Bonn Weimar? The struggle for majority voting . Frankfurt am Main 1968

literature

Cabinets

Paul Lücke was a member of the cabinet

Web links

Commons : Paul Lücke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Lückerath, Michael Werling : Der Bensberger Friedhof, Grabdenkmäler und Geschichte , Bergisch Gladbach 2014, p. 314 f., ISBN 3-932326-72-5 .
  2. ↑ BONN / LÜCKE: cheers meal . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1968, p. 27-33 ( online - April 1, 1968 ).
personal data
SURNAME Gap, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German building minister and interior minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöneborn
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1976
Place of death gain