Richard Jaeger

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Richard Jaeger, 1988 (left) with the former Federal President Karl Carstens

Richard Jaeger (born February 16, 1913 in Schöneberg, today Berlin-Schöneberg , † May 15, 1998 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( CSU ). He was Vice President of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1965 and 1967 to 1976 and Federal Minister of Justice from 1965 to 1966 .

education and profession

Richard Jaeger (right), in conversation with CDU politician Hans Daniels , 1988

Jaeger was born as the son of Heinz Jaeger and Elsbeth Jaeger, b. Dormann, born in Schöneberg in 1913. His father was an employee of the Reich Insurance Office and later director of the Municipal Insurance Office in Munich. The family moved back to Munich three months after Jaeger was born. Here he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium from 1928 .

After graduating from high school in Munich in 1933, with Ernst Ferber , among others , Jaeger, who was a Roman Catholic denomination , studied law and political science in Munich , Berlin and Bonn, which he completed in 1936 with the legal traineeship. In Munich he became an active member of the Catholic Students' Association of Südmark in the KV . After his legal clerkship, he passed the Great State Examination in 1939. His military service in World War II a . a. as a gunner on the Eastern Front (most recently in the rank of sergeant ) was interrupted by his appointment as court assessor at the district court because home in Upper Bavaria in 1940 and was appointed district judge in 1943. 1947 began Jaeger a short professional career as Councilor in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and was personal assistant to the Minister Alois Hundhammer . In 1948 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. Jaeger was married to Rose Littner, (1915-1994) a philologist , and had six children.

politics

In 1933 Jaeger joined the SA .

Jaeger was a member of the CSU since 1946 and a member of the CSU state executive from 1952 to 1981. From 1949 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was from 1952 to 1953 chairman of the committee for the protection of the constitution and from 1953 to 1961 chairman of the defense committee . From 1953 to 1956 he was chairman of the budget sub-committee of the Bundestag presidium. In 1952, Jaeger belonged to a group of 34 members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group who introduced a bill to introduce relative majority voting in the Bundestag. He also served as Vice President of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1965 and from 1967 to 1976.

Richard Jaeger always moved into the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Fürstenfeldbruck constituency . Jaeger was one of ten members of the Bundestag who had been a member of the Bundestag without interruption for the first 25 years since the 1949 Bundestag election.

From December 10, 1953 to July 1, 1954, he was also a member of the European Parliament and from 1987 to 1991 chairman of the Association of Former Members of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament. V. From 1957 to 1990 he was chairman of the German Atlantic Society .

Public offices

In 1948 Jaeger was First Mayor, in 1949 Lord Mayor of Eichstätt . After the federal election in 1965 , he was appointed Federal Minister of Justice on October 26, 1965 in the federal government headed by Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . After the break of the coalition with the FDP and the subsequent formation of the grand coalition , Jaeger left the federal government on December 1, 1966.

While Richard Jaeger to a rally in 1951 Landsberg for the pardon of all death row NS - war began, he joined in the 1960s publicly for the abolition of Article 102 of the Basic Law and thus for the reintroduction of the death penalty once and for murder and other felony which earned him the nickname "Kopf-Ab-Jaeger" on the part of the SPD politician Herbert Wehner .

As Vice-President of the Bundestag in 1970, he declared that he would not allow any women to enter the plenary session in their pants, let alone stand at the lectern . This statement provoked the SPD member Lenelotte von Bothmer to protest, she bought a light pants suit and entered the Bundestag. A scandal broke out because she was the first woman to give a speech in a trouser suit in the Bundestag. In 1972 he was the only member of his parliamentary group to vote against the Eastern Treaty .

Social functions

At the beginning of the 1950s, Jaeger became involved in the Western Movement , which was formed around the magazine Neues Abendland , which was financed by the Princely House of Waldburg-Zeil . This commitment ultimately also led him to the European Documentation and Information Center (CEDI) , where he worked actively from the early 1960s and was its presidency from 1972 to 1974. His work in the European Institute for Political, Economic and Social Issues , which functions as the German section of the CEDI, and finally in CEDI Germany, which he founded in 1972, corresponded to this .

relative

Richard Jaeger was the great-grandson of the Bavarian state parliament member Johann Lukas Jäger , the great-nephew of the Reichstag member Eugen Jäger and grandson of the lieutenant colonel Richard Jaeger .

Honors

Publications

  • German Bundestag. In: Staatslexikon. Volume 2, 6th edition, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1958, columns 635-646.
  • The Defense Committee at work. In: Information for the Troop. Born in 1966, No. 1, pp. 3-7.
  • Idea and Reality - The Basic Law in Proof. In: The Political Opinion. 1979, No. 184, pp. 54-59.
  • Independence - The core of a mandate. In: Sonja Schmid-Burgk : A life for politics? Letters to younger citizens. Freiburg im Breisgau, 1988, pp. 85-91.

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 133f.

Web links

Commons : Richard Jaeger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Richard Jaeger  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (ed.), Bruno Jahn (collabor.): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 ( online ).
  2. ^ Matriculation of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich, school year 1932/33
  3. ↑ Jaeger (Bavaria), Richard, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ibach to Jutzi] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 555 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 149 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  4. ^ German Bundestag, 17. Election period, 204th session on November 8, 2012, PDF document 17/8134: Dealing with the Nazi past.
  5. ↑ Jens Christian Wagner: Anti-Semitism: "Jews out!" In: Die Zeit . No. 05/2011, January 28, 2011, accessed April 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Died: Richard Jaeger. In: Der Spiegel . May 18, 1998, p. 266 , accessed April 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Jaeger, Richard, p. 200 f .
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CSU), MdB, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1998
Place of death Munich