Peter Struck

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Peter Struck (born January 24, 1943 in Göttingen ; † December 19, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German politician and chairman of the board of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . Struck had been a member of the SPD since 1964 and was Federal Minister of Defense from 2002 to 2005 . From 1998 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2009 he was parliamentary group leader of his party in the German Bundestag .

Life

Struck was born the son of a soldier and a saleswoman who ran a kiosk. The father, a car mechanic by trade, worked his way up to the position of operations manager after the Second World War . After graduating from Felix-Klein-Gymnasium in 1962 , Struck studied law in Göttingen and Hamburg . He finished his studies in 1967 with the first state examination. After the second legal state examination 1971 in the same year his doctorate Dr. jur. with work juvenile delinquency and alcohol . He was previously deferred from military service due to his studies and then no longer drafted in view of his age. He joined then as Regierungsrat into the Hamburg administration. Until 1972 he was personal advisor to the President of the University of Hamburg ; afterwards he worked briefly in the tax authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . From 1973 he was deputy city director of the Lower Saxony city of Uelzen . He was admitted to the bar in 1983 .

Peter Struck was elected Chairman of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on December 13, 2010 . He held this office until his death. He was a member of the Advisory Board and the Economic Council of Borussia Dortmund . He was also the patron of the MEHRSi association , which is committed to protecting motorcyclists.

Peter Struck's grave in the Uelzen cemetery.

Peter Struck was married and had three children and seven grandchildren. He lived in Uelzen . His wife Brigitte Struck was Deputy Mayor (SPD) in Uelzen for many years. In 2005 he was made an honorary citizen of the Seedorf community .

He died on December 19, 2012 at the age of 69 as a result of a heart attack in the Berlin Charité , where he had been admitted the day before. On January 3, 2013, following a public funeral service, Struck was buried in close family and friends at the cemetery in Uelzen.

MP

From 1980 to 2009 Struck was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1990 to 1998 he was parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group . From 1998 to July 2002 he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group; he held this office again from November 21, 2005 to September 29, 2009. He was last confirmed in his office with 94 percent of the votes.

In the federal elections from 1980 to 1994 , Struck entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list. In 1998 , 2002 and 2005 he was elected directly to the Bundestag in the Celle-Uelzen constituency, most recently he received 46.7 percent of the vote.

On April 28, 2008, Struck announced that he would no longer stand as a candidate for the Bundestag in 2009 , and accordingly resigned from parliament on October 27, 2009 when the 17th German Bundestag was constituted .

Struck was a member of the coalition committee and the joint committee (emergency parliament in the event of a defense). In the Commission for Federalism Reform II he was chairman for the Bundestag, an equal chairman represented the Bundesrat. As the chairman of the SPD Bundestag parliamentary group, he was almost a member of the SPD's federal executive committee, which is why he decided not to stand for election in 2007. Even during his time as Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group, Peter Struck was very often a member of the mediation committee, and later also its chairman. He was also a member of the Bundestag budget committee.

He coined the expression “Struck's Law” for the fact that no law leaves the Bundestag as it enters.

Public offices

Federal Minister Struck with the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Donald Rumsfeld , in Munich in 2005

Since July 19, 2002, he was a member of the Federal Government as Federal Minister of Defense . Under his leadership, the Bundeswehr received new Defense Policy Guidelines (VPR) in May 2003 . Struck had already explained the key message of these guidelines on December 4, 2002 using the example of the Afghanistan mission: "The security of the Federal Republic of Germany is also being defended in the Hindu Kush."

On June 10, 2004, Struck suffered a stroke that resulted in an interruption of work lasting several weeks. In the same year - under his responsibility for the Ministry and the Federal Armed Forces - a large amount of sensitive data about foreign deployments from the time of the SPD government (1999–2003) was deleted. Chancellor circles explicitly pointed out that it was an oversight.

His decision in 2005 to withdraw the traditional name “Mölders” from Jagdgeschwader 74 was controversial . The basis for this was an expert opinion on Werner Mölders commissioned by the Federal Minister of Defense by the Military History Research Office of the Bundeswehr. Dozens of Bundeswehr generals had an advertisement printed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to protest this decision .

On October 18, 2005, the day the 16th German Bundestag was constituted , he was dismissed from office together with the other federal ministers and at the same time commissioned by Federal President Horst Köhler to take care of the business until a new federal government was formed. After the election of Angela Merkel as Federal Chancellor , he finally resigned from office on November 22, 2005.

Awards

Fonts

  • Peter Struck: Juvenile delinquency and alcohol. A contribution to the personality of the alcohol abuser; comparative criminological investigations on 436 young and adolescent Hamburg offenders from 1968 a. 1969, Hamburg 1970 (diss.).
  • Peter Struck: The turning point of 9/11? A personal balance sheet. In: Till Karmann, Tobias Endler, Martin Thunert, Simon Wendt (eds.): Zeitwende 9/11? A transatlantic balance sheet, Barbara Budrich Verlag, Opladen, Berlin & Toronto, 2016.
  • Peter Struck: That's how it works. Politics with rough edges . Propylaea, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-549-07385-8 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Struck  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Peter Struck  - Quotes
 Wikinews: Peter Struck  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nico Fried: Der Parteisoldat, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 20, 2012, p. 5.
  2. ^ Peter Struck: Juvenile delinquency and alcohol . A contribution to the personality of the alcohol abuser; comparative criminological investigation of 436 juvenile and adolescent Hamburg criminals from 1968 and 1969. Univ., Diss., Hamburg 1970.
  3. ↑ New chairman of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Peter Struck ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Ex-Defense Minister Peter Struck is dead .: In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Peter Struck
  6. ↑ Struck withdraws from federal politics . In: faz.net , April 28, 2008
  7. ↑ The ABC of Politics - Do you still understand your government . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/2007
  8. ↑ Dirk Eckert: "Germany's security is also defended in the Hindu Kush." Telepolis, December 13, 2002.
  9. ^ Struck: It was a stroke , FAZ, August 16, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Struck, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2012
Place of death Berlin