Reinhard Metz (politician)

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Portrait of Reinhard Metz, around 1995

Reinhard Metz (born August 18, 1937 in Hanover ; † December 9, 2009 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( CDU ), member of the German Bundestag , President of the Citizenship of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and State Councilor in Bremen.

biography

Metz was the son of a district court director. The brother of his great-grandfather was the "Lower Saxon gymnastics father" Franz Wilhelm Metz . Metz had been married to Renate Bunger since 1974 and had three children and three grandchildren.

Training, job

After graduating from the Ratsgymnasium Hannover , he studied law and economics . Since 1965 he worked as a freelance journalist for various daily and weekly newspapers and worked a. a. for a daily newspaper in Bonn .

politics

Since 1961 he was a member of the CDU and from 1966 to 1974 state manager of the Junge Union Bremen . In 1971 he was elected to Bremen's citizenship for the first time . Since 1974 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU Bremen for decades. In 1976 he succeeded in gaining a mandate in the German Bundestag . In 1987 he ran as the top candidate of the CDU in the state elections in Bremen and then moved to the Bremen citizenship, where he was parliamentary group leader of the CDU from 1987 to 1989.

After the formation of the grand coalition in Bremen in 1995 , Metz was the first CDU politician to take over the office of President of the Bremen Citizenship. After the general election in 1999 , he moved to the office of State Council at the Senator for Finance as a representative of Senator Hartmut Perschau . After the 2003 general election , Metz gave up its parliamentary work. Afterwards he was represented in the deputation for culture.

For many years he was a member of the Postage Stamp Advisory Board of the Federal Post Office. He was chairman of the Broadcasting Council of Radio Bremen and chairman of the Bremen Seniors Union.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Metz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also


Individual evidence

  1. a b Handbook of the Bremen Citizenship, Personal Data, 13th electoral term, 1st delivery, page 56