Richard Stücklen

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Richard Stücklen (1972)

Richard Stücklen (born August 20, 1916 in Heideck , Middle Franconia ; † May 2, 2002 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ) was a German politician ( CSU ). He was 1957-1966 Federal Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and belonged from 1976 to 1990 the Presidium of the German Bundestag on, including 1979-1983 as President of the Bundestag .

Life and work

After attending primary school , Stücklen did an apprenticeship in electrical engineering and then worked in this profession. At the same time, he completed a correspondence course in engineering , specializing in electrical engineering . In 1936 he was called up for the Reich Labor Service and then for military service. From 1940 to 1943 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . This was followed by a service commitment in the electrical industry. In 1944 he was able to finish his training as an electrical engineer at the engineering school in Mittweida (Saxony) and was then department head at AEG in Freiberg until the company was dismantled . Since 1945 he worked in the parental locksmith's shop in Heideck. From 1952 to 1989 he was a co-founder of the BMS Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG in Cologne.

Richard Stücklen was married and had two children.

Political party

Poster for the 1961 federal election

Stücklen was a member of the NSDAP from 1939 . After the end of the war, Stücklen was one of the founders of the CSU in Heideck and in the Hilpoltstein district . From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the executive board and from 1967 to 1989 a member of the CSU executive committee.

Stücklen with Helmut Kohl at the CDU party conference in 1972
Richard Stücklen (left) with Franz Josef Strauss in March 1972

In the 1976 federal election campaign , Stücklen was a member of Helmut Kohl's government team in the event of an election victory.

CSU member of the Bundestag

From 1949 to 1990, Stücklen was a member of the German Bundestag . He was a member of the German Bundestag for a total of eleven legislative periods. For a long time he was the politician with the longest membership in the Bundestag. It was not until 2014 that this record was surpassed by Wolfgang Schäuble .

From 1953 to 1957 he was the executive chairman of the CSU regional group, deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and during this time also chairman of the committee for special issues affecting medium-sized businesses. At that time he was the youngest chairman of a Bundestag committee. On June 24, 1955, Stücklen and his group colleagues introduced a bill to introduce relative majority voting based on the British model. In 1957, together with members of the Bundestag from the CSU and DP, he introduced a bill to repeal Article 102 of the Basic Law , with the aim of reintroducing the death penalty . However, this was unsuccessful.

From January 25, 1967 to 1976 he was chairman of the CSU regional group and again deputy chairman of the parliamentary group. At the time of the grand coalition , he and his group colleagues started further initiatives to introduce majority voting, but all of them failed. From 1968 to 1969, Stücklen was also deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry to review the current organization, distribution of powers, staffing and equipment of the intelligence services responsible for state security and counter-espionage .

After the 1976 Bundestag election , he was elected Vice President of the German Bundestag on December 14, 1976 . After Karl Carstens was elected Federal President , Stücklen succeeded him as President of the Bundestag on May 31, 1979 and, after the Bundestag election in 1983, took over the office of Vice President on March 29, 1983, which he held until he left the Bundestag on December 20 1990 dressed.

On the occasion of the Schleyer kidnapping in 1977, Stücklen drew attention to himself with the remark that a dead terrorist could neither be a repeat offender nor be released.

From 1979 to 1983 he was chairman of the sub-commission for the budget, 1979/80 of the sub-commission of the coordination committee “ Inquête Commission for Constitutional Reform” and 1980 to 1987 of the building commission of the Bundestag's council of elders . During his presidency he was also chairman of the joint committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat in accordance with Article 53a of the Basic Law.

Joschka Fischer's derailment fell during his time as Bundestag Vice President : “ With all due respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole! ". Stücklen had excluded the Green MP Jürgen Reents on October 18, 1984 after he had described Helmut Kohl as "ransomed by Flick". The Green MP Christa Nickels then tried to request an interruption of the session. When Stücklen kept interrupting her and finally turned off the microphone, Fischer protested loudly, whereupon he was also excluded. On leaving Fischer escaped the well-known saying, for which he apologized the next day.

Stücklen has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member. He initially represented the constituency of Weißenburg and from 1976 the constituency of Roth . Most recently, he received 59.2% of the first votes in his constituency in the 1987 federal election .

Public offices

After the federal election in 1957 , Stücklen was appointed Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on October 29, 1957 , making him the youngest Federal Minister at the time. In this function he also belonged to the cabinet headed by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard from 1963 onwards. During his tenure, among other things, the four-digit postcodes were introduced . With the formation of the grand coalition , Stücklen left the federal government on December 1, 1966.

Honorary positions

Stücklen with Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (1990)

Stücklen was chairman of the German Parliamentary Society from 1977 to 1979 .

Awards

Publications

  • The opposition in modern democracy . In: Rudolf K. Fr. Schnabel: The opposition in modern democracy . Stuttgart 1972, pp. 22-30.
  • Parliamentarians from the very beginning . In: Friedrich Zimmermann : Demand and performance. Dedications for Franz Josef Strauss . Stuttgart 1980, pp. 13-31.
  • Parliament in our midst . In: Wirtschaftswoche . 1981, issue 11, page 25.
  • Dignity and humor go hand in hand . In: Rupert Schick: The President of the Bundestag. Office, function, people . 9th edition, Stuttgart 1987, pp. 129-133.
  • Most important is credibility . In: Sonja Schmid-Burgk : A life for politics? Letters to younger citizens . Freiburg 1988, pp. 140-146.

See also

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition. Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 253 ff.
  • Jan-Peter Domschke, Sabine Dorn, Hansgeorg Hofmann, Rosemarie Poch, Marion Stascheit: Mittweida's engineers all over the world . University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, Mittweida 2014, p. 118 f.

Web links

Commons : Richard Stücklen  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Richard Stücklen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CSU regional group chairwoman. (PDF; 209 kB) (No longer available online.) Hanns Seidel Foundation , January 2010, archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved October 15, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hss.de
  2. ↑ Wave of Truths . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2012 ( online ).
  3. ↑ BT-Drs. 17/8134 of December 14, 2011: The Federal Government's response to the major question from the Die Linke ea .: "Dealing with the Nazi past"
  4. ↑ The citizen calls for harsher punishments . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1977 ( online ).
  5. ↑ The most famous quotes . NDR. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  6. ^ The plenary minutes 10/91 (PDF) p. 6698 (C), does not record the call because Stücklen had interrupted the session "until Mr. Fischer, who is excluded from further participation in the session, has left the plenary hall . "
personal data
SURNAME Stücklen, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag (1979–1983)
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Heideck
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2002
Place of death Weissenburg