Philipp Jenninger

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Philipp Jenninger (1987)

Philipp Hariolf Jenninger (born June 10, 1932 in Rindelbach / Jagst ; † January 4, 2018 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1982 to 1984 he was Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and from 1984 to 1988 President of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

Philipp Jenninger after an appearance in March 2003 in Munich.

Jenninger came from a Catholic family close to the center . His father, a master printer, was therefore often subjected to harassment during the Nazi era . His brothers Albert and Wilhelm died in World War II . His brother Alfred (March 3, 1921 - May 24, 2007) was a colonel from 1974 to 1980, in command of the airborne and air transport school in Altenstadt in Upper Bavaria .

After graduating from high school in 1952 at the Peutinger Gymnasium in Ellwangen , Jenninger studied law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , which he completed in 1955 with the first state examination and in 1959 with the second state examination . On March 4, 1958, he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. with the work The need for reform of the Federal Constitutional Court . In 1960 he entered the service of the head of the department Wehrbereichsverwaltung  V in Stuttgart one. In 1963 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense as a consultant and in 1964 became the personal and press officer of the Federal Minister for Affairs of the Federal Defense Council Heinrich Krone . After the ministry was dissolved, he was political advisor to the Federal Minister of Finance, Franz Josef Strauss, from 1966 to 1969 . Philipp Jenninger was a member of the Presidium of the Weikersheim Study Center .

Philipp Jenninger was married and lived with his wife in Stuttgart until his death. He was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Staufia Bonn and KAV Capitolina Rome in the CV .

Cardinal Walter Kasper gave the funeral speech at the funeral ceremony in the German Bundestag on January 18, 2018 .

MP and Minister

From 1969 to 1990 Jenninger was a member of the German Bundestag . From September 19, 1973 to October 4, 1982, he was the first parliamentary manager of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Jenninger was a directly elected member of the Bundestag , until 1976 for the Crailsheim constituency and then for the Schwäbisch Hall constituency . He achieved his highest result in the 1983 federal election in the Schwäbisch Hall-Hohenlohe constituency with 58.5% of the first votes .

In 1976 allegations against Jenninger in connection with an exhibition by the graphic artist and caricaturist Klaus Staeck (SPD), who is close to the political left , in the Parliamentary Society for press reports. Among other things, the exhibition featured a number of posters directed against the Union and some of its leading politicians. Jenninger, at that time the parliamentary managing director of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, and some members of the parliamentary group protested on site. Posters were also taken from the wall and torn up. Among other things, Jenninger tore up a poster by Staeck with the inscription "Since Chile we have known more precisely what the CDU thinks of democracy". Staeck then sued Jenninger. A default judgment was issued against Jenninger for the payment of ten marks in damages plus interest. This incident, dubbed “Bonn Iconoclasm”, was later used repeatedly against Jenninger.

Jenninger was appointed Minister of State in the Chancellery on October 4, 1982 , with the special task of shaping German policy.

President of the German Bundestag

On November 5, 1984 Jenninger was elected President of the German Bundestag after Rainer Barzel resigned . He paid particular attention to relations with the parliaments of the Warsaw Pact states and the political changes taking place in these states. There were dialogues, sometimes mutual visits, with parliamentarians from Poland , Hungary , the Soviet Union , the ČSSR , Romania and the GDR . Jenninger was at times highly respected by the opposition parties SPD and Greens and was re-elected with a large majority after the federal election in 1987 .

During Jenninger's tenure, the decision to demolish and rebuild the plenary building of the Bundestag was also made .

In the federal election 1990 candidate Jenninger no more.

Speech on November 10, 1988

Jenninger's speech on the 50th anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht in 1988 was viewed by large parts of the public as a "failed commemoration" and created a scandal that led to his immediate resignation from the office of President of the Bundestag. Jenninger wanted in his speech to bring the audience closer to the worldview and emotional state of the perpetrators and the inactive witnesses and to make the political climate understandable in which the "Reichskristallnacht" could come about. According to Jenninger, this was done at the suggestion of the former chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Werner Nachmann , who explained to him that he kept hearing from young people in Germany that they did not get an answer to the question of how "Hitler came about." " be.

Jenninger made frequent use of the stylistic devices of direct and experienced speech in his speech, which was initially disturbed by heckling from the parliamentary group of the Greens, which had previously been planned regardless of the wording of the speech, and in some cases used the diction and vocabulary of Nazi propaganda about the then widespread To illustrate thought patterns. Members of the Greens, SPD and FDP left the plenary hall during the speech in protest. The media echo in Germany, which resulted in incorrect quotations and impermissible abbreviations, was devastating. Under this impression, Jenninger resigned from the office of President of the Bundestag the following day.

As a result, Jenninger's speech was largely rehabilitated, among other things by the fact that the later chairman of the Central Council of Jews Ignatz Bubis demonstratively adopted controversial passages from Jenninger's address in his own speech without offending. An analysis of the speech and the circumstances can be found on the Jewish Internet portal haGalil . Furthermore, the nature of the presentation of the speech was criticized, which Jenninger said he had "not rehearsed at all" and which is regarded as unsuccessful. Willy Brandt said that the speech had "failed, not because Jenninger is a bad guy, but because he has taken over".

In linguistics , communication science and speech science , speech is used today to show the extent to which language use influences content and what is understood as transported content.

Other public offices

From 1991 to 1995 Jenninger was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Austria and from 1995 to 1997 Ambassador to the Holy See .

Philipp Jenninger was President of the German Council of the European Movement from 1985 to 1990 and later its Honorary President.

Awards (excerpt)

Cabinets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesschau: Ex-Bundestag President Jenninger died
  2. ↑ Former Bundestag President Philipp Jenninger has died. In: zdf.de. Retrieved January 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Eckard Presler: Vatican terminus. In: Berliner Zeitung , August 26, 1995.
  4. ^ Walter Rutz (edit.): Bibliography of the dissertations in constitutional and administrative law, 1945–1960. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1965, p. 48 .
  5. ↑ http://www.kardinal-kasper-stiftung.de/TrauerstaatsaktimDeutschenBundestag.html
  6. ^ Justification of violence , in: Der Spiegel , edition 22/1976, pp. 200–201.
  7. ↑ Der Spiegel 25/1976, p. 10.
  8. ^ Judgment by Philipp Jenninger. Spiegel note dated June 28, 1976
  9. ↑ a b After the speech in free fall - Philipp Jenninger ( memento from April 21, 2011 on WebCite ) in the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , issue 15/2011
  10. ^ [1] Wolfgang Benz - Federal Agency for Political Education, accessed on January 6, 2018
  11. ↑ Interview from 2006 with Philipp Jenninger, in: Jan CL König: About the power of speech , p. 437 ff.
  12. ^ [2] Analysis of the speech and its circumstances on the Jewish portal Hagalil.com
  13. ↑ Interview from 2006 with Philipp Jenninger, in: Jan CL König: About the power of speech , p. 445.
  14. ↑ Jürgen Mittag : From the circle of dignitaries to the European network. Six decades of the European Movement in Germany. In: Christoph Linden, Michael Hacker (Red.): 60 Years of the European Movement Germany. 1949-2009. European Movement Network, Berlin 2009, p. 29.
  15. ^ Dpa: State act for Philipp Jenninger - Germany - Badische Zeitung. Badische Zeitung, January 19, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018 .

literature

  • Jürgen Mittag : From a circle of dignitaries to a European network. Six decades of the European Movement in Germany. In: Christoph Linden, Michael Hacker (Red.): 60 Years of the European Movement Germany. 1949-2009. Network European Movement, Berlin 2009, pp. 12–28, online ( Memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Wolfgang Benz : Unsuccessful memory. Philipp Jenninger's speech in the German Bundestag on November 10, 1988. In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 61 (2013), 11, pp. 906–919.

Web links

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predecessor Office successor
Dietrich von Brühl German ambassador to Austria
1991–1995 		Ursula Seiler-Albring
Hans-Joachim Hallier German Ambassador to the Holy See
1995–1997 		Jürgen Oesterhelt
personal data
SURNAME Jenninger, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenninger, Philipp Hariolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Rindelbach , Jagst
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2018
Place of death Stuttgart