Rudi Geil
Rudolf "Rudi" Geil (born April 25, 1937 in Oberlahnstein ; † February 12, 2006 in Lahnstein ) was a German educator and politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school in Lahnstein in 1957, Geil studied business education at the universities in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main . In Frankfurt he became an active member of the Catholic student union Staufia-Strasbourg in the KV . In 1961 he passed the examination to become a certified business teacher and in 1963 the second state examination. In 1961 he entered the school service of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and worked as a vocational school teacher in Lahnstein and Koblenz until 1971 , most recently as a senior teacher.
In 2006 he died in Lahnstein after a long and serious illness.
Political party
Geil joined the CDU in 1960. From 1971 to 1980 he was chairman of the CDU district association Rhein-Lahn and from 1980 to 1991 chairman of the CDU district association Montabaur . In 1988 he was elected deputy state chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1992 he was defeated by Werner Langen in the election of the CDU state chairman.
MP
Geil was a councilor for the city of Lahnstein from 1964 to 1978 and was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group there from 1965 to 1972. From 1969 to 1987 and again from 1989 he was a district council member of the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis . He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1971 to 1993 , where he was deputy chairman from March 1973 and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group from November 1976 to June 1981.
From 1994 to 1997 he was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Public offices
In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, Geil was appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Environment in the government of Rhineland-Palatinate led by Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel on June 12, 1981, to succeed Georg Gölter . On 23 May 1985 he moved to the top of the earlier by Heinrich Holkenbrink led Ministry of Economy and Transport .
After the CDU had lost an absolute majority in the state elections in May 1987 and a coalition with the FDP had formed, Geil had to hand over the Ministry of Economics to Rainer Brüderle on June 23, 1987 . At the same time he was appointed Minister of the Interior and Sports .
After Vogel resigned, Geil had been a member of the state government led by Prime Minister Carl-Ludwig Wagner since December 1988 . On June 21, 1990, the sports department was spun off from the Ministry of the Interior. After the CDU was defeated in the state elections in April 1991 , he left the government on May 21, 1991 and was replaced by Walter Zuber .
Geil switched to state politics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in early 1993 and was appointed Minister of the Interior in the state government headed by Prime Minister Berndt Seite on February 19, 1993 . On May 12, 1997, he left the government.
In 1997/98 he was special commissioner of the federal government for the reconstruction of the east with the rank of state secretary .
honors and awards
In 1998 Geil was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star , after having received the Great Cross of Merit on December 29, 1989. In 2005 he was given honorary citizenship of the city of Lahnstein.
In 2008, the Lahn Bridge between Ober- and Niederlahnstein was renamed Rudi-Geil Bridge in his honor .
Others
In the CDU, Geil was nicknamed "All-Purpose Rudi" because of his versatility and his qualities as a problem solver.
See also
Cabinet Vogel II - Cabinet Vogel III - Cabinet Vogel IV - Cabinet Wagner - Cabinet page I - Cabinet page II
literature
- The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 209–210.
Web links
Hanns Haberer (1946–1947) | Oskar Stübinger (1947) | Fritz Neumayer (1947–1948) | Peter Altmeier (1948–1967) | Hanns Neubauer (1967–1971) | Heinrich Holkenbrink (1971–1985) | Rudi Geil (1985–1987) | Rainer Brüderle (1987–1998) | Hans-Artur Bauckhage (1998–2006) | Hendrik Hering (2006–2011) | Eveline Lemke (2011–2016) | Volker Wissing (since 2016)
Jakob Steffan (1946–1947) | Wilhelm Boden (1947) | Jakob Steffan (1947–1949) | Peter Altmeier (1949–1951) | Alois Zimmer (1951–1957) | Otto van Volxem (1957-1959) | August Wolters (1959–1971) | Heinz Schwarz (1971–1976) | Kurt Böckmann (1976–1987) | Rudi Geil (1987–1991) | Walter Zuber (1991–2005) | Karl Peter Bruch (2005–2011) | Roger Lewentz (since 2011)
Paul Röhle (1946–1947) | Wilhelm Bökenkrüger (1947–1949) | Johann Junglas (1947, 1949–1951) | Alois Zimmer (1951–1957) | Otto van Volxem (1957-1959) | August Wolters (1959–1967) | Heiner Geißler (1967–1977) | Georg Gölter (1977–1981) | Rudi Geil (1981–1985) | Ursula Hansen (1985–1990) | Ursula Funke (1990–1991) | Ullrich Galle (1991-1994) | Florian Gerster (1994-2002) | Malu Dreyer (2002–2013) | Alexander Schweitzer (2013–2014) | Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (since 2014)
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Peter Altmeier (1947) | Alois Zimmer (1947–1951) | Wilhelm Boden (1951–1961) | Hermann Matthes (1961–1963) | Helmut Kohl (1963–1969) | Johann Wilhelm Gaddum (1969–1971) | Willi Hört (1971–1972) | Kurt Böckmann (1973–1976) | Rudi Geil (1976–1981) | Hans-Otto Wilhelm (1981–1987) | Emil Wolfgang Keller (1987–1988) | Hans-Otto Wilhelm (1988–1994) | Christoph Böhr (1994–1996) | Johannes Gerster (1996–1997) | Christoph Böhr (1997-2006) | Christian Baldauf (2006–2011) | Julia Klöckner (2011–2018) | Christian Baldauf (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Rudi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Great, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and politician (CDU), MdL, State Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberlahnstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 2006 |
| Place of death | Lahnstein |