Walther Hellige

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Walther Hellige (born March 22, 1910 in Strasbourg , † March 23, 1984 in Göttingen ) was a German politician ( FDP , CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Hellige studied oriental languages, history and theology at the universities in Halle , Leipzig and Berlin . During his studies he was in 1928 in Halle member of the fraternity of the tiller . From 1931 to 1933 he worked as an assistant to the former Prussian minister of culture, Carl Heinrich Becker, and from 1933 to 1945 he worked as a research assistant at the State Museums in Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1936. In 1935/36 he did military service in the Wehrmacht and from 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier part, most recently as captain of the reserve.

After the war ended, Hellige moved to Lower Saxony . He was head of the tourist office since 1952 and became director of the municipal museum in Göttingen in 1954.

Political party

Hellige joined the FDP in 1949 and was chairman of the FDP district association in Göttingen from 1957. In 1958 he was elected to the state board of the FDP Lower Saxony, where he was chairman of the cultural policy committee. After joining the Union faction , he was out of the FDP in 1967 excluded and then stepped over to the CDU.

MP

Hellige was elected to the German Bundestag for the FDP in the 1961 federal election via the Lower Saxony state list , to which he initially belonged until 1969. He left the FDP parliamentary group on October 13, 1967 and was accepted into the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on October 24, 1967 . From April 19, 1971, when he replaced the deceased MP Alfred Hein , until 1972 he was again a member of the Bundestag. From 1965 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for development aid. He has also been a member of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) since 1963 .

Honors

Works

  • The reign of Al-Muwaffaq: a turning point in d. History of Abbasids , dissertation, in New German Research , Vol. 1, Berlin, Junker & Dünnhaupt (1936)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 449-450.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 324.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 159, August 25, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Hellige, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP, CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1984
Place of death Goettingen