Peter Hintze

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Peter Hintze, 2013
Peter Hintze, 2014

Peter Hintze (born April 25, 1950 in Honnef ; † November 26, 2016 ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Hintze was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 until his death and was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Women and Youth from 1991 to 1992 and to the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology from 2005 to 2013 . From 1992 to 1998 Hintze was Secretary General of the CDU under Helmut Kohl . From October 22, 2013 until his death he was Vice President of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

After graduating from the Siebengebirgsgymnasium , Hintze studied Protestant theology at the University of Bonn and the Church University of Wuppertal , which he finished in 1977. After the subsequent vicariate , he worked from 1980 to 1983 as a pastor in the Evangelical parish of Königswinter . In December 1983, the then Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Heiner Geißler (CDU) , appointed him to the post of Federal Commissioner for Community Service .

Peter Hintze was a Protestant , married twice and father of a son.

He was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 . Hintze died of cancer on the evening of November 26, 2016. On December 3, 2016, he was buried in his hometown Bad Honnef in the presence of political celebrities after a memorial service in the Protestant Church of the Redeemer in the New Cemetery.

Political party

Hintze was federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU / CSU from 1990 to 1992 . In 1992 he was elected Secretary General of the CDU to succeed Volker Rühe . His red sock campaign against the Magdeburg model in 1994 led to great controversy . This campaign helped to intercept the SPD, which was in the lead in the election campaign, and its top candidate Rudolf Scharping and to secure the victory of the CDU under Helmut Kohl in the 1994 federal election , but it was also seen as polarizing and sharpened the image of the PDS. When Hintze wanted to build on the old strategy with a handshake poster campaign before the 1998 federal elections , he was criticized within his own ranks and later made responsible for the election defeat. Hintze resigned as general secretary three days after the election.

Linked to Hintze is the introduction of the women's quota in the CDU, with the help of which more women got into leadership positions in the CDU.

Since 2001 Hintze was Vice President of the Christian Democratic International (CDI) and since 2002 Vice President of the International Democratic Union and one of the Vice Presidents of the European People's Party (EPP).

MP

After the federal election in 1990 Hintze became a member of the German Bundestag , to which he belonged until his death. He always moved into the Bundestag via the state list of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1998 to 2005 he was chairman of the working group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on matters relating to the European Union . From January 2006 he was chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional group in his parliamentary group .

At the constituent meeting of the 18th Bundestag in October 2013, he was elected one of the vice-presidents.

Public offices

Hintze in 1991 when the chairman of the Federal Testing Office for Writings Harmful to Young People , Rudolf Stefen, passed

On January 24, 1991 Hintze was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Women and Youth , Angela Merkel , in the federal government led by Helmut Kohl ( Kohl IV cabinet ). Because of his upcoming election as CDU General Secretary, he left office on May 13, 1992.

After the federal election in 2005 and the subsequent formation of a grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Hintze was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology in the Merkel I cabinet on November 23, 2005 . From February 2007 he was also the Federal Government's coordinator for the aerospace industry . After the federal elections in 2009, Merkel's confidante Hintze was designated as State Secretary of the Chancellor in the new black and yellow government ( Merkel II cabinet ). However, for private reasons he asked to be allowed to stay in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. With his election as one of the Bundestag Vice-Presidents on October 22, 2013, he resigned his government offices.

Political positions

As Secretary General of the CDU under Helmut Kohl , Hintze campaigned for the integration of the East German CDU members within his party. His red sock campaign earned him the reputation of a conservative polarizer in the 1990s. But he also made a name for himself as a modernizer of the Union, for example with the introduction of a women's quota. He stood behind Angela Merkel early on . In 2011 he supported the Federal President, who later resigned, in the Wulff affair . In the field of medical ethics he last represented liberal positions; In contrast to the churches, he spoke out in favor of a limited approval of pre-implantation diagnosis (PGD). He called it "merciless" when couples with an ardent desire to have children and a predisposition for a serious hereditary disease could not get the chance of having a healthy child through PGD. In 2015, in the euthanasia discussion before the Bundestag vote on November 6, he advocated enabling the terminally ill to undergo medically assisted suicide and, together with Karl Lauterbach and Carola Reimann (both SPD) , submitted a corresponding bill. In doing so, he turned against Hermann Gröhe and a majority of the Union parties. In an interview with Christ und Welt , Hintze said that God created “us so that we can determine our own fate”, that no one could demand to endure suffering because Christ did the same on the cross: “We are not Jesus”. For himself, having been diagnosed with cancer since 2013, he ruled out such a path.

Awards

Publications

  • Our path to success in 1994 : Speech at the 4th party congress of the CDU in Germany, published by the CDU Federal Office, Bonn 1993, DNB 946066949 .
  • as editor: The CDU party programs. A documentation of the goals and tasks. Bouvier, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-416-02576-8 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Hintze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice from the Evangelical Parish of Königswinter for Peter Hintze . Evangelical parish Koenigswinter, November 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Bundestag Vice President: Peter Hintze is dead . Spiegel Online , November 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Severin Weiland: On the death of Peter Hintze: A passionate contender . Spiegel Online , November 27, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016.
  4. ^ Ludwig Greven: Obituary Peter Hintze: An idiosyncratic contender . Zeit Online , November 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ We are infinitely sad. Website of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia , November 27, 2016, accessed on the same day.
  6. ↑ Security level 1 at Hintze funeral , Express , December 1, 2016
  7. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Peter Hintze
  8. ↑ Gero Neubauer: The PDS between continuity and departure. In: From Politics and Contemporary History , No. 5/2000.
  9. ↑ Peter Hintze resigns . AFP article in the Berliner Zeitung , September 30, 1998, accessed on November 27, 2016.
  10. ↑ Johannes Leithäuser: On the death of Peter Hintze: A worker for Merkel's success . faz.net , November 27, 2016, accessed November 28, 2016.
  11. ↑ Matthias Kamann: A free spirit, committed to one's own conscience , Welt-N24.de of November 27, 2016.
  12. ^ Vice-President of the Bundestag: CDU politician Peter Hintze has died . Bild.de , November 27, 2016.
  13. ↑ "My end is mine". Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Nicola Kuhrt: Doctors should be allowed to help with suicide , Spiegel Online from June 15, 2015
  15. ^ Raoul Löbbert: Euthanasia: "We are so free" . Interview from Christ und Welt auf Zeit Online , October 4, 2015.
  16. ^ Ludwig Greven: Obituary Peter Hintze: An idiosyncratic contender . Zeit Online , November 27, 2016, accessed November 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hintze, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Honnef
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2016