Rudolf Lange (politician, 1941)

Rudolf Lange (born September 17, 1941 in Hamburg ) is a German naval officer ( Rear Admiral a. D.) and politician ( FDP ).

Private

Lange was born in Hamburg in 1941; his father fell in World War II. He grew up in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and Reinbek . In 1962 he passed the Abitur at the Sachsenwaldschule Gymnasium Reinbek . Today Lange is married for a second time and has four children. He lives in Jever .

Military background

Promotions

• 1965 lieutenant at sea
• 1967 first lieutenant at sea
• 1970 Lieutenant Commander
• 1975 corvette captain
• 1980 frigate captain
• 1987 sea ​​captain
• 1993 Flotilla Admiral
• 1996 rear admiral

After graduating from high school, Lange joined the German Navy as an officer candidate ( Crew IV / 62 ) . He was trained in the Netherlands, among other places, and was used as a speedboat commander and on the destroyer Schleswig-Holstein . From 1975 to 1977 he completed the 17th admiralty staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. He then worked in the naval command system in Wilhelmshaven. In 1979 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense , where he worked under General Tandecki . After that he also worked in the planning staff of the Foreign Office . This was followed by a position as a lecturer in nuclear strategy at the FüAkBw. Under the Kohl / Genscher government , Lange was deployed in the field of military policy, for example in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn (1987–1993) and from 1993 as a German defense attaché in Washington, DC Among other things , he initiated the “ Red Telephone ” between Germany and the Soviet Union . On January 26, 1996, Lange began his last military assignment as commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

Political career

Political party

At the beginning of 2000, Lange joined the FDP, whose Hamburg state chairman he became a year later. From 2001 to 2003 he was also a member of the FDP federal executive committee.

List leader and senator

As the leading candidate Lange led the Liberals in elections to the Hamburg Parliament on 23 September 2001 after eight years of absence in parliament back and formed with the CDU at Ole von Beust and the party for a rule of law offensive under Ronald Schill , the first bourgeois coalition after 44 years of SPD - Government. As a senator, Lange himself took over the authority for education and sport and, until the beginning of 2002, also the cultural authority . After massive criticism of his administration, he had to resign in November 2003. Reinhard Soltau , the former FDP state chairman , was appointed as his successor .

MP

After resigning, Lange accepted his dormant citizenship mandate and remained the health policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group until the new election .

Others

From 1996 to 2000, Lange was Vice President of the Clausewitz Society . He is also a lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg .

literature

• Rudolf Lange , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/2004 of July 24, 2004, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , pp. 13-14.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 264.
2. ↑ Rudolf Lange , uni-oldenburg.de, accessed November 14, 2015.