Peter Nellen

Peter Nellen (born August 10, 1912 in Düren , † December 29, 1969 there ) was a German politician ( CDU , later SPD ).

Life and work

In his youth, Peter Nellen was a member of the Catholic youth organization Bund Neudeutschland , which the Jesuit father Ludwig Esch had founded. After graduating from high school, he studied Catholic theology , philosophy , history and German in Bonn , Cologne and Berlin . After completing his studies, he was a study assessor from 1943 and taught as a high school teacher, most recently in Aachen . During the Second World War he was a non-commissioned officer in Penal Division 999 . He became an American prisoner of war and directed the prisoner of war camp school in San Antonio , Texas. From 1946 he was government councilor and department head for adult education, youth care and sport in the regional council.

Nellen was married and had five children. He was a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Grotenburg (Detmold) Cologne in the CV .

politics

After 1945, Peter Nellen worked as a councilor for schools, youth and sport at the district government in Münster and joined the CDU there. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. From 1949 to 1961 he represented the constituency of Münster-Stadt and -Land in parliament as a directly elected member . From June 7, 1950 to 1953 he was deputy chairman of the organizing committee of the Bundestag. Because of significant differences with his party - it was about the standpoints on conscientious objection and nuclear armament - he joined the SPD on November 8, 1960. In the next two legislative periods he was elected to parliament on the SPD state list in North Rhine-Westphalia. Within the SPD parliamentary group, he was responsible for relations with the Catholic Church. After the federal election in 1969 , he left parliament and died a short time later.

Honors

Nellen was awarded the Willibald Pirckheimer Medal for “truly humanistic sentiment”. He also received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Publications

The price of freedom. Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1958.
Live with the atomic bomb? In: Union monthly journal . Issue 2, 1960, pp. 65 ff. ( Library.fes.de PDF).

literature

Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 195ff.
Gunnar Anger: Peter Nellen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 890-902. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Markus Köster: Duty and freedom of conscience. Peter Nellen - a lateral thinker in the Bundestag. In: On Red Earth. Homeland papers for Münster and the Münsterland. May 2009 (supplement to Westfälische Nachrichten , May 13, 2009).

Web links

Literature by and about Peter Nellen in the catalog of the German National Library
From the right as from the left . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1960 ( online - via Peter Nellen).

Individual evidence

↑ Nellen, Peter . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Naber to Nydahl] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 877 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 140 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Nellen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU, SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Düren
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1969
Place of death	Düren

[1] Nellen, Peter . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Naber to Nydahl] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 877 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 140 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).