Diether Posser
Diether Posser (born March 9, 1922 in Essen ; † January 9, 2010 ibid) was a German politician ( GVP , SPD ).
Life
Posser attended the Burggymnasium in Essen . In his youth he was shaped by the Protestant youth pastor Wilhelm Busch and his work in the Weigle House . After graduating from high school in 1940, he began to study law , economics and history at the universities of Münster and Cologne . A year later he was drafted into the Air Force and took part in World War II , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve. He was taken prisoner by the French, from which he was released in 1947.
After his return from captivity, Posser resumed his studies. He passed the first state examination in law in 1948 and then completed his legal clerkship. In 1950 he was at the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne with a dissertation Procedural issues of proceedings before the International Court of Justice with an emphasis on Chorzow case for doctor of law doctorate . He passed the second state examination in law in 1951 and settled down as a lawyer in Essen a year later . In 1965 he was also appointed notary.
Posser founded in 1952 with former Interior Minister Gustav Heinemann (previously CDU ), Hans Bodensteiner ( CSU ), Max Merten , Thea Arnold , Helene Wessel (both Center Party ), Hermann Etzel ( Bavaria Party ) and the later German President Johannes Rau , the All-German People's Party , in the he became general secretary after Bodensteiner's resignation in 1953.
After its failure, he became a member of the SPD in 1957, for which he entered the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1966 . In 1968 he was appointed Minister for Federal Affairs there. In 1972 he moved to the justice department before becoming finance minister in 1978 . He held this office until 1988 (including Cabinet Rau II and Cabinet Rau III ). He was also Deputy Prime Minister until 1988 and from 1970 to 1986 a member of the SPD party executive. From May 12, 1982 to April 26, 1990, he was one of the two chairmen of the mediation committee and thus the first non-prime minister to serve as chairman on the Federal Council side. In 1990 he was replaced by Johannes Rau.
In 2010 Posser was buried in the Ostfriedhof in Essen .
See also
- Cabinet Kühn I - Cabinet Kühn II - Cabinet Kühn III - Cabinet Rau I - Cabinet Rau II - Cabinet Rau III
Works
- Rapallo, not Tauroggen. In: Voice of the community. Issue 4, 1954, pages 87 ff.
- Politics without solidarity. In: Gesamtdeutsche Rundschau. Issue 24, 1955.
- Cold War lawyer. A piece of German history in political trials 1951–1968 . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-02347-8 (and other editions).
- Gustav Heinemann. In: Klaus Scholder and Dieter Kleinmann (eds.): Protestant profiles. Life pictures from five centuries. Koenigstein / Ts. 1983, pp. 382-396.
- The main thing is that the main thing remains the main thing. In: Karl-Heinz Ehring and Ulrich Parzany (eds.): Encounters with Wilhelm Busch. Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, pp. 67-71.
- Radio feature by Alexander Goeb "Diether Posser: Piano player - life path of a top politician", WDR 2002
- Diether Posser: The persistent life path of a former top politician - The piano player by Alexander Goeb, NRhZ-Online January 20, 2010
- CD production by Alexander Goeb (supported by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung): Diether Posser: One way or another, life is - the fates and hits of persecuted artists during the Nazi era
Sources and literature
- The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1966 to 1970 (sixth electoral period) (Publications of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia 8), ed. by Christoph Nonn, Wilfried Reininghaus and Wolf-Rüdiger Schleidgen, included. u. edit by Andreas Pilger, Siegburg 2006, ISBN 3-87710-361-8
- The cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia 1970 to 1975 (seventh electoral period) (Publications of the State Archives North Rhine-Westphalia 27), ed. by Frank Michael Bischoff, Christoph Nonn and Wilfried Reininghaus. u. edit by Martin Schlemmer, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-9805419-7-8
- Diether Posser , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 05/1997 from January 20, 1997, supplemented by news from MA journal up to week 02/2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Diether Posser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Diether Posser at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
- Cabinet minutes of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Korfmann: Former SPD finance minister Diether Posser has died . Report on derwesten.de from January 11, 2010; Retrieved February 22, 2012
- ↑ Reiner Burger: The fairy tale of Max Merten , in FAS April 19, 2015
Eduard Kremer (1946) | Artur Sträter (1946–1947, 1948–1950, 1962–1966) | Gustav Heinemann (1947–1948) | Rudolf Amelunxen (1950–1958) | Otto Flehinghaus (1958–1962) | Franz Meyers (1966) | Friedrich Vogel (1966) | Josef Neuberger (1966–1972) | Diether Posser (1972-1978) | Inge Donnepp (1978–1983) | Dieter Haak (1983–1985) | Rolf Krumsiek (1985–1995) | Fritz Behrens (1995–1999) | Reinhard Rauball (1999) | Jochen Dieckmann (1999–2002) | Wolfgang Gerhards (2002–2005) | Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter (2005–2010) | Thomas Kutschaty (2010–2017) | Peter Biesenbach (since 2017)
Franz Blücher (1946–1947) | Heinrich Weitz (1947–1952) | Adolf Flecken (1952–1956) | Willi Weyer (1956–1958) | Artur Sträter (1958–1960) | Joseph Pütz (1960–1966) | Hans Wertz (1966–1975) | Friedrich Halstenberg (1975–1978) | Diether Posser (1978–1988) | Heinz Schleusser (1988–2000) | Peer Steinbrück (2000–2002) | Jochen Dieckmann (2002–2005) | Helmut Linssen (2005–2010) | Norbert Walter-Borjans (2010–2017) | Lutz Lienenkämper (2017–)
Carl Spiecker (1948–1953) | Karl Arnold (1954) | Artur Sträter (1954–1956, 1960–1962)) | Karl Siemsen (1956–1958) | Franz Meyers (1958–1959) | Johann Ernst (1959–1960) | Gerd Ludwig Lemmer (1962–1966) | Fritz Kaßmann (1966–1967) | Diether Posser (1968–1972) | Friedrich Halstenberg (1972–1975) | Inge Donnepp (1975–1978) | Christoph Zöpel (1978–1980) | Johannes Rau (1980, 1990–1995) | Dieter Haak (1980–1983) | Günther Einert (1983–1990) | Manfred Dammeyer (1995–1998) | Detlev Samland (2000-2001) | Hannelore Kraft (2001-2004) | Wolfram Kuschke (2004–2005) | Michael Breuer (2005–2007) | Andreas Krautscheid (2007–2010) | Angelica Schwall-Düren (2010–2015) | Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (2015–2017) | Stephan Holthoff-Porter (2017–)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Posser, Diether |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (GVP, SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2010 |
| Place of death | eat |