Richard Langeheine

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Election posters for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1967

Richard Langeheine (born February 16, 1900 in Eixe ; † December 29, 1995 in Peine ) was a German lawyer , administrative officer and politician ( NSDAP , later DP , GDP , CDU ).

Life and work

Richard Langeheine was born on February 16, 1900 as the son of a farmer in Eixe. After graduating from high school in Peine, he began studying law and political science at the universities of Göttingen and Kiel , which he completed in 1925 with the first state examination. In 1928 he passed the second state examination. He then joined the Prussian judicial service as a court assessor. From 1930 to 1934 he worked as a public prosecutor in Stolp and worked as a civil servant in the local government. From November 1, 1933 to November 20, 1934 he was Lord Mayor of Stolp. From 1935 to 1945 he worked for business organizations, most recently as managing director of the stone and earth business group .

After the Second World War , Langeheine returned to West Germany , settled as a lawyer in Peine and took over the management of a law firm. He was later also admitted as a notary. From 1969 to 1972 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagenwerk Foundation . He died on December 29, 1995 in his hometown.

Richard Langeheine was married and had two children.

politics

Langeheine joined the NSDAP in 1933 and was district leader of the party in Stolp from December 1933. After 1945, Langeheine joined the Lower Saxony State Party (NLP), which later became part of the German Party (DP). He was a council member since 1948 and from 1952 to 1955, from 1961 to 1964 and since 1970 mayor of the city of Peine. From 1949 to 1955 he was a district council member and 1951/52 district administrator of the Peine district . In the 1950s he held a leading position in the DP, since 1952 as district chairman and since 1953 as deputy state chairman of the party in Lower Saxony .

Langeheine was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1955 and appointed Lower Saxony Minister of Justice to the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege on May 26, 1955 . On February 29, 1956, he also took over the management of the cultural department; He handed over the management of the Ministry of Justice on October 3, 1956 to Arvid von Nottbeck . During his tenure as Lower Saxony's minister of education , he tried to improve the provision of schools in rural areas by introducing “central schools”. After the formation of a coalition of the SPD , FDP and GB / BHE , he left office on May 12, 1959.

Langeheine served as Vice President of the State Parliament from 1959 to 1961 and was executive chairman of the DP regional association of Lower Saxony from 1960. After the merger of DP and GB / BHE in 1961, he and Hermann Ahrens became Lower Saxony's state chairman of the GDP. He campaigned for a continuation of the cooperation with the CDU at the state level. The former GB / BHE members within the GDP wanted, however, to continue the coalition with the SPD and FDP. This led to considerable differences within the GDP. At the meeting of the state committee from October 29 to 31, 1961, the party decided with a narrow majority to respect the coalition agreement concluded by the GB / BHE in 1959. Langeheine then joined the CDU with his supporters (18 of the 20 MdL , including former DP federal chairman Heinrich Hellwege) by March 29, 1962. From 1963 to 1965 he was first deputy chairman, then from January to May 1965 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

After the formation of a grand coalition , Langeheine was appointed minister of culture to the state government led by Prime Minister Georg Diederichs on May 19, 1965 . At the same time he took over the office of Deputy Prime Minister. Immediately after he took office, the Lower Saxony Concordat was concluded, which his predecessor Hans Mühlenfeld had previously rejected. Langeheine was a proponent of the articulated school system. During his tenure, he campaigned for early childhood education in kindergartens and pre-schools, for adult education and for the expansion of universities.

Langeheine was nominated as a CDU top candidate for the state elections in 1967 in January 1966. In 1968 he was elected chairman of the CDU regional association in Hanover. As such, he mainly dealt with the organizational merger of the three Lower Saxony regional associations Braunschweig, Hanover and Oldenburg. When the grand coalition broke up after the state elections in 1970 because the SPD had achieved an absolute majority, Langeheine had to vacate his ministerial post on July 8, 1970. From 1970 to 1974, when he left parliament, he was the age president of the state parliament. His successor as a member of parliament in the Peine-Stadt constituency was Horst Horrmann , who later became Minister of Education . In 1974 the CDU Lower Saxony elected him its honorary chairman.

Honors

literature

  • Munzinger : Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1996 from March 4, 1996
  • Henning Krüger; David McAllister; Christian Wulff; Lower Saxony Landtag CDU parliamentary group: 60 years of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony parliament 1947–2007 OCLC 255653779

See also

Web links

Commons : Richard Langenheine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 3.
  2. ↑ How to do it . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1970, pp. 78 ( online - 28 September 1970 ).
  3. ↑ class struggle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1960, pp. 25 ( Online - June 8, 1960 ).
  4. ↑ Freedom of belief in percentages? In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1965, pp. 30 ( online - June 23, 1965 ).
personal data
SURNAME Langeheine, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (NSDAP, DP, GDP, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Eixe
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1995
Place of death Torment