Waldemar Christiansen

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Waldemar Christiansen (born October 3, 1920 in Hamburg ; † July 6, 1997 ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

After completing a bank apprenticeship, Christiansen worked in banking and made it to the position of bank director and board member of Hamburg-Afrika-Bank.

He joined the FDP after the Second World War . From 1956 he was a member of the board of the Hamburg FDP and in the 1970s its state treasurer.

Christiansen was elected to the Eimsbüttel district assembly as an FDP member on the list of the Hamburg bloc in 1953, but resigned his mandate in 1955. From 1961 to 1970 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament for the first time . In the state elections in 1970 he was initially not re-elected to parliament. By inserting Article 38a (now Article 39) of the Hamburg Constitution, which stipulates the suspension of the citizenship mandate of senators, he came back to the citizenship on February 19, 1971 as the next candidate, to which he was on October 23, 1971 for the deceased Deputy Heinz HR Wichmann firmly moved up. With the failure of the FDP to pass the five percent hurdle in the 1978 general election , Christiansen finally left the Hamburg state parliament.

In 1995 Christiansen was made an honorary member of the FDP for his services.

Web links

  • Christiansen, Waldemar . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Cahn-Garnier to Czymek] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 186 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 88 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d mourning for an honorary member of the FDP. In: Abendblatt.de. July 11, 1997. Retrieved February 9, 2017.