Richard Bünemann

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Richard Bünemann (born April 21, 1920 in Hamburg ; † May 17, 2009 ibid) was a German politician ( SPD , Die Linke ), political scientist and historian .

Life and work

Bünemann visit to the school in the secondary school Eimsbuettel that he had to leave because of disputes with faculty. He then finished his school days with the final examination at the secondary school for boys in Eppendorf .

Until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940, Bünemann was a youth leader in Winterhude , most recently as a youth leader in Jungbann 188 .

After graduating from high school, Bünemann, who was a Protestant , took part in the Second World War as a soldier from 1940 to 1945 , after which he was a prisoner of war until 1946. After his release, he studied history, German literature and education at the University of Hamburg . In 1951 he received his doctorate in philosophy and then followed until 1955 to study political science at Oxford , Harvard and at the Sorbonne in Paris . After his legal traineeship in Rhineland-Palatinate , he was a research assistant at the University of Kiel from 1958 to 1962 and then until 1967 deputy state commissioner for civic education in Schleswig-Holstein . During this time, he held a NATO visiting professorship at Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1963/64 .

Political party

Bünemann belonged to the SPD for many years. From 1961 to 1967 he was chairman of the Wellsee local association and from 1969 to 1975 chairman of the SPD in the Plön district . On February 26, 1975 Bünemann was due to a breach of the incompatibility decision with the DKP from the SPD ruled out . Subsequently, Bünemann was active as a leader in the group of Western European Socialism or Organization of Socialist Groups , an association which was based on the line of the French Parti Socialiste at the time , and took part in the failed discussions in its framework in 1976, among others. a. with Johannes Agnoli , Peter Brückner and Rudi Dutschke on the founding of a left-wing socialist party in the Federal Republic.

In 2007 Bünemann joined the new party Die Linke as a founding member. From February 2008 until his death he was honorary chairman of the Plön district association.

MP

From 1962 to 1967 Bünemann was a community representative in Wellsee and from 1962 to 1970 a member of the district council in the Plön district .

Bünemann was a member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein from 1967 to 1975 . From May 24, 1971 to September 27, 1973 he was deputy chairman of the parliament's interior committee.

With a minute of silence at the beginning of the plenary session on June 17, 2009, the state parliament mourned its former MP Richard Bünemann. State Parliament President Martin Kayenburg commemorated Bünemann's work in “gratitude”.

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Uwe Schmidt Hamburg schools in the "Third Reich" (PDF; 2.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Bünemann had worked together with communists in the initiative "Weg mit den Berufsverboten", cf. Horst Bethge: Plöner Feuerkopf For Human Rights and Socialism: About Richard Bünemann and his fight against professional bans , Junge welt , July 11, 2009, accessed on 8 October 2017 (online article with payment barrier).
  3. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landtag, plenary minutes 16/114, 114th session, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF, accessed October 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landtag.ltsh.de

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SURNAME Bünemann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, Die Linke), MdL, political scientist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2009
Place of death Hamburg