Rudolf Decker

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Rudolf Decker (born May 22, 1934 in Schwäbisch Hall ) is a former German CDU politician .

Career

As a structural engineer, Decker founded an engineering office for statics and project management in 1963, which he and his brother still run today. From 1968 to 1992 he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament . As a directly elected member of parliament, he made environmental protection one of his personal tasks. He was the first environmental policy spokesman for his group in the state parliament and published his book Operation Environment in this context .

From 1968 to 1978 he was a member of the Böblingen municipal council, from 1971 to 1974 he was also chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1971 to 1989 he represented the CDU in the district council, whose parliamentary group he was from 1971 to 1977.

Voluntary activities in politics and society

As a Christian-oriented politician, he is a co-founder of an informal initiative for basic values ​​and international understanding. There was a similar initiative immediately after the Second World War under the leadership of the former member of the Bundestag Gustav-Adolf Gedat . This non-partisan and interreligious initiative is open to everyone and is based in the Federal Republic of Germany on the “responsibility before God and people”, which is mentioned in the first sentence of the preamble of the German Basic Law .

This non-formal association can be described as a network of worldwide contacts. In this context, Decker is primarily active in promoting international understanding in Europe, Africa and Asia. His interlocutors included, for example, numerous incumbent and former European and African presidents, members of the government and parliament. These included the former presidents of Burundi , Kenya , Rwanda , Somalia ( Siad Barre ) of Sudan , Ethiopia , the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania .

Decker reports on some of his experiences in Africa in two books. To this day he is in this country in coordination with the Foreign Office with parliamentarians and organizes the discussion group every week of meetings in Berlin in the parliamentary society. In 1984 he was co-founder and until 2017 chairman of the “Association for Basic Values ​​and Understanding of Nations”. V. "and has been chairman of the board of the" Foundation for Basic Values ​​and International Understanding "founded by this association in 1996.

In 1979, Decker founded the Prayer Breakfast initiative together with the publisher Friedrich Hänssler and the CDU politician Horst Waffenschmidt , which has since established itself in the German Bundestag and in several state parliaments based on the American model . Until the end of 2017, he was in charge of the meetings, which he then handed over to Tilo Braune .

Awards

In 1978 Decker was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class . 1985 the Great. In 1995 he received the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .

Private

Decker was married to his wife Gretel, who died in 2011. He is married to Wiltrud for the second time and lives in Böblingen .

Fonts

  • Operation environment. Ideas for overcoming a crisis , Hänssler Verlag , Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7751-1264-2 .
  • Rwanda. Death and hope in the land of a thousand hills. Encounters and impressions , new edition. Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7751-2709-7 .
  • In innermost Africa , Hänssler, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-7751-2959-6 .
  • Europe and Africa. From the crisis to a common future for neighboring continents , Verlag Herder, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37779-2 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Traveling around the world as a silent diplomat, message from May 22, 2014 ( Memento from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ The Peace Prayer , message from March 2, 2005 ( Memento from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Change of leadership in the Foundation for Basic Values ​​and Understanding of Nations, idea.de, message from December 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Decker as a guest of Herbert Weippert in the cultural series "Cafe Ikarus" ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), swp.de, message from March 25, 2010.
    No state can be made without God , idea.de, article from June 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ USA: Prayer Breakfast in Washington , ead.de, article from February 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 19, January 27, 1979.
  7. ↑ a b Heubach pays tribute to Rudolf Decker: "A Christian cosmopolitan who convincingly exemplifies his values" ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notification dated May 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cdu-bb.de

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SURNAME Decker, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall