Walter Remmers

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Walter Remmers on a poster for the state elections in Lower Saxony in 1986

Walter Remmers (* 17th October 1933 in Papenburg , † 14. September 2018 in Oldenburg ) was a German politician of the CDU . He was a minister in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt .

Life

Walter Remmers was born in 1933 as the son of a master painter and the younger brother of Werner Remmers . He was married and had four children.

After graduating from high school in 1954, Remmers studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and the Free University of Berlin . He passed the first state examination in 1959. After training as a trainee lawyer in Lower Saxony, he passed the second state examination in Hanover in 1963. After working for the Hanover public prosecutor's office and at the Aurich regional court until 1970 , he came to Papenburg as a local court advisor.

Remmers was a member of the external expert council of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He had been a member of the Order of Malta since 1984 ; from 1970 he was a member and until 1982 diocesan leader of the Malteser Hilfsdienst in the Diocese of Osnabrück . From 2004 to 2011 he was state representative for Lower Saxony and from 2005 to 2007 he was vice-president of the Malteser Aid Service.

politics

Lower Saxony

Remmers was from the 7th to 12th electoral term (from 1970) for the constituency of Papenburg a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament , after he was previously active on the local political level in the district council. In the eighth electoral term he was chairman of the committee for environmental issues and in the ninth electoral term chairman of the committee for internal administration.

From June 22, 1982 until June 21, 1990 he was Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice . After Wilfried Hasselmann's resignation , he was entrusted with the affairs of the Interior Minister from October 31, 1988 to November 8, 1988 .

After leaving the government in 1990, Walter Remmers was Vice President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. On December 11, 1990, he resigned his mandate because of his appointment to the state government of Saxony-Anhalt.

Saxony-Anhalt

Walter Remmers (4th from right, 1990)

From November 2, 1990 to July 21, 1994 he was Minister of Justice, and from December 15, 1993 to July 21, 1994, he was also Minister of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt.

On September 13, 2001, Remmers was elected Vice-President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , to which he had been a member since 1994. Since 2002 he has not been a member of the state parliament.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. Remmers family obituary. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Tilo Winkler: Ex-Minister Remmers has passed away. In: Volksstimme.de . September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018 .
  3. ^ Andreas Grau: Walter Remmers. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , accessed on September 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President