Reinhard Führer

Reinhard Führer (2012)

Reinhard Führer (born November 22, 1945 in Gaweinstal , Austria ) is a German CDU politician , he was President of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001 and President of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV from 2002 to 2013 .

Life

Führer completed a professional training as a mechanic , which he successfully completed in 1963. He then worked in this profession for a year and then worked as a group leader in the electrical industry until 1970 . In addition to his professional activity, he attended a postgraduate school from 1964 to 1967 , which he graduated with the entrance qualification for a technical college . From 1967 to 1970 he trained to become a state-certified communications engineer while working. In 1973 he completed a one-year advanced training course to become a technical business economist and then worked for ten years in a hospital and then in a senior citizens' home in Berlin .

As a member of the CDU (since 1971), he was local chairman of Buckow from 1975 to 1997 and then chairman of the CDU district in Neukölln for two years . In 1975 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives for the first time . From 1991 to 1999 he was its vice-president and from 1999 to 2001 president. After the early elections in October 2001, Führer renounced his mandate and was then managing director of a private senior citizens' home in Tempelhof . From 2002 to 2013 Führer was President of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. based in Kassel .

Führer is married and has two children.

Memberships

• He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the German Society .
• He is the chairman of the Friends of the Bundeswehr in Berlin .

Awards

• 1998: Great Golden Decoration of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1999: Silver Commander's Cross with the Star of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 2011: Käthe Kollwitz Medal
• 2012: Decoration of Honor for National Defense First Class, Republic of Hungary
• 2012 Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haase Prize of the German-Russian Forum
• 2013: Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation
• 2013: Golden Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
• 2015: Title of Knight (Chevalier) in the Ordre national du Mérite of the Republic of France
• 2016: Distinguished Service Award from the Obermayer Foundation (German Jewish Community History Council)

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 147.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Reinhard Führer
2. ↑ Farewell to politics ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. | Work for peace. Retrieved October 22, 2019 . 
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
5. ↑ Laudation Obermayer Foundation 2016