Rudolf Werner (politician)

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Rudolf Werner on an election poster for the 1961 federal election
Candidate poster for the 1965 federal election

Rudolf August Werner (born March 31, 1920 in Hanover ; † May 7, 1996 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Werner was born the son of an engineer. After attending secondary school and continuing education at the City of London College , he completed a commercial apprenticeship. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier , most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner in the USA, in the POW Camp Trinidad, from which he was released in 1946.

Werner had been the owner of various businesses since 1941, including a cloth shop in Hanover-Kirchrode . He later served as a member of various professional committees at state and federal level and as a board member in several companies. In addition, he was Vice President of the German Foundation for Development Aid . According to the Rosenholz file , Rudolf Werner belonged to a group of members of the Bundestag who were designated as targets for conspiratorial actions by the Ministry for State Security in the 1960s . However, the attempt at skimming was unsuccessful.

Werner was married twice and had six children.

Political party

Werner joined the CDU in 1946 and was chairman of the CDU district association in Hanover from 1968 to 1974.

Parliamentary activity and tasks for the federal government

Werner was from 1959 to 1961 council member of the city of Hanover. He was a member of the German Bundestag from July 24, 1959, when he replaced the late MP Ernst Pernoll , until 1965 and again from 1969 to 1972. He was always drawn into parliament via the Lower Saxony state list. From April 23, 1964 to 1965 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for development aid . He was also a member of the European Parliament from 1970 to 1973 .

He used large sums of money from his private assets for the federal election campaign. In 1969, Werner hired the advertising specialist Charles Wilp . In 1972 Werner had him photographed with nine naked children to design an election poster. He was therefore moved from the 9th to the hopeless 23rd place on the list by the Lower Saxony CDU state list committee.

Werner carried out various mediation campaigns in the Near and Middle East on behalf of the federal government.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Werner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Helmut Müller-Enbergs' Quellenkritik der Rosenholz-Files , p. 80f, BF study no. 28 of the BStU
  2. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Rosewood. (PDF; 1.6 MB) A source review. The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic, 2007, accessed on April 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Werner . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1972, p. 178 ( online - 18 September 1972 ).
  4. ↑ This beautiful picture . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1972, p. 54-57 ( Online - Oct. 16, 1972 ).
  5. ↑ Cf. the dissertation by Dalia Abu Samra, “Germany's foreign policy towards Egypt”, 2002, u. a. Cape. III and VI.
  6. ↑ http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2002/92/
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Rudolf August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1996
Place of death Hanover