Werner Marx (politician, 1924)
Werner Marx (born November 15, 1924 in Edenkoben ; † July 12, 1985 in Bonn ) was a German politician ( CDU ).
education
Marx attended high school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which he had to interrupt in 1942 to take part in the Second World War; he was seriously wounded in action. With a delay he passed the Abitur in Speyer in 1947 . In the same year he joined the CDU. He studied philosophy, history and geography in Tübingen and Munich . In 1954 he was in Munich with the dissertation The Palatinate Members of the Bavarian State Parliament, especially at the first state parliament in the response time 1849/50 for Dr. phil. PhD .
During his studies, Marx became a member of the Catholic student associations AV Guestfalia Tübingen and the KDSt.V. Trifels Munich in the CV .
job
From 1955 Marx worked as a journalist for what was then the Bonner Rundschau . In 1956 he became personal advisor to Otto Lenz , who had previously been State Secretary and now sat in the German Bundestag . In 1958 Marx became a consultant for psychological warfare in the Federal Ministry of Defense , in 1959 press officer in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture. In 1960 he switched to the command staff of the armed forces . From 1965 to 1972 he was 1st chairman of the study society for time problems .
From 1966 to 1972 he headed the Federal Expert Committee on Defense Policy and from 1969 to 1980 the Working Group V of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on foreign, Germany, defense, European, development and foreign trade policy.
From 1965 to 1985 (5th to 10th electoral term) Marx was a member of the Pirmasens constituency in the German Bundestag. There he was a member of various committees, from 1965 to 1982 deputy or full member of the Defense Committee ; 1980 to 1982 he was its chairman. On October 27, 1982 he succeeded Rainer Barzel as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and remained in this position until he died on July 12, 1985 after an operation on an artery . His successor was Hans Stercken .
meaning
According to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Marx was one of the most prominent politicians in the Union who dealt with the government's Ostpolitik during the Brandt / Scheel government.
literature
- No Bonn - Beijing axis . Interview with Werner Marx. In: The time . No. 12/1976 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefanie Waske: Destroy after reading! The secret intelligence service of the CDU and CSU in the Cold War . Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24144-2 , pp. 170 .
- ↑ Angela Keller-Kühne: Documents from parliamentary groups in the archive for Christian-democratic politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. (PDF) In: VDA - Mitteilungen der Fachgruppe 6, 36/2012. P. 86 , accessed February 16, 2014 .
Franz Josef Strauss (1952–1953) | Richard Jaeger (1953–1965) | Friedrich Zimmermann (1965–1972) | Hermann Schmidt (1972–1975) | Werner Buchstaller (1975–1976) | Manfred Wörner (1976–1980) | Werner Marx (1980–1982) | Alfred Biehle (1982–1990) | Uwe Ronneburger (1990) | Fritz Wittmann (1990-1994) | Klaus Rose (1994-1997) | Kurt Rossmanith (1997-1998) | Helmut Wieczorek (1998–2002) | Reinhold Robbe (2002-2005) | Ulrike Merten (2005–2009) | Susanne Kastner (2009–2013) | Hans-Peter Bartels (2014–2015) | Wolfgang Hellmich (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marx, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edenkoben |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1985 |
| Place of death | Bonn |