Werner Danz

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Werner Danz (born June 3, 1923 in Koblenz , † March 18, 1999 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German politician ( FDP ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school in Koblenz and graduating from secondary school in Berlin-Steglitz in 1942 , Danz took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was last promoted to lieutenant in the reserve and was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946.

Afterwards Danz took a degree in sociology, philosophy and political science at the Universities of Mainz and Berlin in which he in 1957 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. finished. From 1953 to 1959 he was the managing director of the Economic and Social Policy Association in Bonn . In 1966 he became the personal advisor to the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister for Finance and Reconstruction. From 1971 he was head of the Office for Economic and Transport Promotion of the City of Mainz .

Political party

Danz became a member of the NSDAP in 1941. He joined the FDP in 1953 , since then has worked full-time for the FDP regional association Rhineland-Palatinate and acted as regional manager of the party from 1959 to 1961. From 1974 to 1983 he was deputy state chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Liberals. The Bad Kreuznach district association elected him its honorary chairman.

MP

From 1960 to 1969 Danz was a council member of the city ​​of Bad Kreuznach . In the 1961 federal election , he entered the German Bundestag via the Rhineland-Palatinate state list , to which he was a member until 1965.

From 1967 to 1983 he was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , from 1967 to 1969 deputy chairman and then until 1982 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In 1982/83 he was again parliamentary deputy. At the same time he served as Vice President of the State Parliament. From 1979 to 1989 Danz was a member of the district council in the Bad Kreuznach district . In 1979 he was a member of the 7th Federal Assembly .

In addition, from 1988 to 1993 he was treasurer of the association of former members of the state parliament, member of the board of trustees of the state center for political education, the broadcasting council of the SWF and the advisory board of the University of Mainz .

Works

  • The "public opinion" in the process of opinion formation, Diss., Berlin 1957

Honors

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 123-124 .