Werner Dollinger

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Werner Dollinger, 1963
Werner Dollinger as a guest at the CDU federal party conference in 1978

Werner Dollinger (born October 10, 1918 in Neustadt an der Aisch ; † January 3, 2008 there ) was a German politician ( CSU ). He was Federal Treasury Minister from 1962 to 1966 , Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation for a few weeks in 1966, Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications from 1966 to 1969 and Federal Minister for Transport from 1982 to 1987 .

education and profession

Werner Dollinger was born as the son of the grocer Richard Dollinger. After high school in 1936 graduated Dollinger, the Lutheran faith was, Economic and Political Sciences at the School of Economics in Nuremberg , the University of Frankfurt and at the Technical University in Munich . He finished his studies in 1940 as graduate -Kaufmann and was in 1942 with the work of the transformations and structural changes in Germany's industry and trade as well as trade and transport, including the causes, shown with reference to the primary, vocational and censuses from 1925 and 1933 to Dr. rer pol. PhD. From 1943 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier .

After the war, Dollinger was co-owner and managing director of the steam brick factory “A. Dehn ”in Neustadt an der Aisch , which his father-in-law founded. In 1948 he became chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Neustadt and in 1952 chairman of the Middle Franconia regional association of the Bavarian clay industry association. In 1953 he was also deputy chairman of the regional association of Bavarian food wholesalers. He was a member of the Bavarian State Synod from 1965 to 1995 and of the EKD Synod from 1971 to 1991 .

Political party

Election poster

In 1945 he was one of the founders of the CSU in Neustadt an der Aisch . From 1951 until the Bavarian regional reform in 1972 he was district chairman and a member of the party's state committee. From 1963 to 1985 he was deputy state chairman of the CSU, and was a member of the board from 1957 to 1989. In the Bundestag election campaign in 1980, Dollinger was part of the CDU / CSU campaign team, which the candidate for Chancellor Franz Josef Strauss presented in Bonn on June 6, 1980 , and from whose circle he wanted to fill the most important cabinet posts in the event of an election victory.

Dollinger was state chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CSU from 1974 to 1993 and a member of the EAK federal board from 1970 to 1993 (deputy national chairman of the Evangelical working group of CDU / CSU). He was honorary chairman of the "Economic Advisory Board of the Union", whose chairman he was from 1970 to 1995, and honorary chairman of the CSU district association Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim.

In 1973 Dollinger became a member of the Trilateral Commission .

MP

Dollinger at the CDU federal party conference in Mainz 1986.

From 1946 to 1964 Dollinger was a city ​​councilor in Neustadt an der Aisch and from 1945 to 1948 and 1952 to 1964 also a member of the district council in the Neustadt district .

From 1953 to 1990 Dollinger was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he was immediately elected to the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From 1957 he was first deputy chairman and then from 1961 to December 14, 1962, finally chairman of the CSU regional group in the German Bundestag. After the formation of the social-liberal coalition in 1969, he was again deputy chairman of the CSU regional group until 1976. He was also chairman of the working group for finance and tax issues from 1957 to 1961 and of the working group for economy and nutrition of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group from 1976 to 1980.

In the 9th electoral term he was from 1980 to October 27, 1982 chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Economics.

Werner Dollinger was only drawn into the German Bundestag via the Bavarian state list after the 1972 Bundestag election , otherwise always as a directly elected member of the Erlangen constituency and, from 1965, the Fürth constituency .

From 1956 until its dissolution in 1958, he was a member of the Joint Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (forerunner of today's EU).

Public offices

On December 14, 1962, he was appointed Federal Treasury Minister in the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . He kept this office under Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard . From November 8th to November 30th, 1966, he took over the post of Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation for a month as the successor to the resigned Walter Scheel .

Werner Dollinger (2006)

In the cabinet of the grand coalition under Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger he was then appointed Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications on December 1, 1966 . After the 1969 federal election and the associated end of the grand coalition, he left the federal government on October 21, 1969 .

After the change of government in October 1982, he was appointed Federal Minister of Transport in the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on October 4, 1982 . After the federal election in 1987 , he finally resigned from the federal government on March 11, 1987.

Honors

Publications

  • Independent entrepreneur and political mandate , in: Peter Spary , Dem Mittelstand obliged , Bonn, 1982, pages 39-44.
  • 50 years of the CSU in the Neustadt ad Aisch-Bad Windsheim district , in: Streiflichter from home history 19 , Neustadt an der Aisch 1995, pp. 61–78

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, pp. 73f.
  • Hans-Jürgen Mahnke , asked: Werner Dollinger , Bornheim 1983;

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Werner Dollinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Munzinger archive .
  2. ↑ Katharina Köhn: 100th birthday of Werner Dollinger. Formative as a Protestant in the CSU .
  3. ^ Albert Gieseler: Dehn Ziegel GmbH & Co. KG .
  4. ↑ http://www.trilateral.org/download/doc/Dec_1973_Jan_1974_North_American_European_Japanese_Affairs.pdf
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Dollinger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2008
Place of death Neustadt an der Aisch