Robert Antretter
Robert Antretter (born February 5, 1939 in Munich ) was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the German Bundestag for five electoral terms from November 4, 1980 to October 26, 1998, and from 1993 to 1999 Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Life
The trained typesetter worked in the publishing industry from 1953 to 1965 and in 1968 became a board member of the SPD state association in Baden-Württemberg. Antretter was the managing director of the SPD regional association Baden-Württemberg and a lecturer at the University of Stuttgart .
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics and its executive committee. He was a member of the application commission of the SPD state association of Baden-Württemberg and a member of the SPD party council.
He carries the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. On April 26, 2008 he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit.
In 2014 he was also awarded the Eugen Bolz Prize for his extraordinary social commitment to the concerns of disabled people. The eulogy for this was given by the former Federal President Horst Köhler .
From 2000 to 2012 Robert Antretter was honorary chairman of the federal association for life support . In September 2012 he was replaced by the newly elected President Ulla Schmidt . In recognition of his performance, Antretter was also elected honorary chairman of Lebenshilfe and was the first to be honored with the Tom Mutters medal named after the founder of Lebenshilfe.
In 2002 Robert Antretter was appointed by Bishop Gebhard Fürst , Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, to chair the newly established independent commission on sexual abuse. This commission of the diocese, which Antretter headed until 2012, was the first and for a long time the only such body nationwide that systematically dealt with incidents of sexual abuse in the past and present. After ten years, Antretter handed over the chairmanship to Markus Grübel , Member of the Bundestag / CDU.
In 1995, Pope John Paul II awarded him Commander-in-Chief of the Order of Gregory for his services to the Roman Catholic Church .
Antretter is Catholic, married and has four children.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 16-17.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Antretter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Holdings of Robert Antretter in the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn)
- http://www.lebenshilfe.de/wData/downloads/ansprechpartner/Lebenslauf-Robert-Antretter-22-09-2012.pdf (link not available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulla Schmidt took over the chairmanship of Lebenshilfe. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from Lebenshilfe, September 23, 2012, accessed September 24, 2012
- ↑ Acta Apostolicae Sedis AAS 88 (1996), 372 (PDF; 5.6 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antretter, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |