Walter Picard
Walter Picard (born December 10, 1923 in Hausen ; † March 10, 2000 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German educator and politician ( CDU ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Picard was drafted into the Wehrmacht and from 1942 to 1945 took part in the Second World War as a soldier . At the end of the war he suffered a severe wound. He then attended the Pedagogical Institute, where he passed both teacher exams. From 1949 he worked as a primary school teacher in Nieder-Roden and in 1965 became the rector of the local school. He also held a visiting professorship in American and German history at Dartmouth College in the United States .
Picard was from 1961 to 1965 and from 1977 to 1981 a member of the association assembly of the State Welfare Association of Hesse (LWV). As chairman of the Institute for Psychosocial Development, he founded the non-partisan Aktion Mentally Ill in 1970 , which he headed from 1971 to 1992. This action served as a lobby for the protection of the interests of the mentally ill in order to advance the psychiatry reform. He was also a co-founder of the German Institute for Pure Beer .
In 1995, Picard and his wife founded the Gretel and Walter Picard-Weil Foundation based in Zurich . The aim of the foundation is, among other things, to alleviate human misery, care for children, young people, the elderly, the sick, the disabled and the infirm, the education, further training and promotion of less well-off people as well as the promotion of intellectual, scientific, cultural and artistic creativity.
Political party
In 1945 Picard was one of the founders of the CDU and the Junge Union (JU) in Nieder-Roden, Obertshausen and Dieburg . From 1955 to 1962 he was first deputy state chairman and from 1962 to 1964 then state chairman of the JU Hessen and a member of the executive state board of the Hessian Christian Democrats.
MP
Picard had been a council member of the Nieder-Roden community since 1952 and was elected to the district council of the Dieburg district in the same year , to which he belonged until 1958. Here he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. From 1958 to 1965 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1965 to 1983. He was always drawn into parliament via the Hesse state list. In the Bundestag from 1967 to 1980 he devoted himself to health and psychiatry issues.
Honors
Walter Picard received the Gold Medal of Honor from the State Welfare Association of Hesse in 1983 and the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1984 . The Walter Picard Prize has been awarded by the State Welfare Association of Hesse since 2002 .
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 644-645.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Picard, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and politician (CDU), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 2000 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |