Werner Remmers

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Candidate poster for the state election in Lower Saxony in 1967
Candidate poster for the state election in Lower Saxony in 1978

Werner Remmers (born December 3, 1930 in Papenburg ; † March 19, 2011 ) was a German economist and politician ( CDU ). He was Minister of Culture from 1976 to 1982 , Minister for Science and Art from 1976 to 1977 and Environment Minister of Lower Saxony from 1986 to 1990 . From 1982 to 1986 he was chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life and work

Werner Remmers was the son of the master painter Bernhard Remmers and Anna, née Rieke; the politician Walter Remmers was his younger brother. After graduating from high school in Papenburg in 1951, he began studying economics and social sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , which he completed in 1955 with an examination as a qualified economist. In 1960 he was in the later Cardinal Joseph Hoffner with his work The impact of wage forms and wage calculation methods to the personal and social worker satisfaction for Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

Remmers worked from 1955 to 1976 in adult education at Catholic institutions. From 1960 to 1962 he was deputy director of the Franz-Wärme-Haus in Münster and from 1962 to 1976 director of the newly founded Ludwig-Windthorst-Haus in Lingen- Holthausen. From 1991 to 1998 he was the founding director of the Catholic Academy in Berlin .

Werner Remmers was married and had four children. In late 1999 he suffered a stroke. Further strokes made him in need of care until his death. He was buried in the cemetery in Lingen in the district of Holthausen-Biene.

politics

Remmers joined the CDU and was chairman of the CDU district association Osnabrück - Emsland from 1976 to 1990 . In the state elections in 1967 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until 1994. In parliament he was, among other things, a member of the culture and school committee and educational policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, which he headed from 1982 to 1986 as chairman.

On February 13, 1976, Remmers was appointed minister of education to the first government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht ( Albrecht I cabinet ). At the same time he took over the management of the Ministry of Science and Art, which he handed over to Eduard Pestel on February 16, 1977 . In the following governments ( Cabinet Albrecht II , III ) he continued to hold the office of Minister of Education. On June 22, 1982 Remmers left the government. He was then elected chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

From July 9, 1986 to June 21, 1990 he was again a member of the government and served as Environment Minister in Albrecht's fifth cabinet . He was one of the most famous figures in Albrecht's government.

Volunteering

Remmers was a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics from 1983 and its vice-president from 1988 to 1997. He was also a member of the advisory board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy and, from 1992 to 2001, President of the Maximilian Kolbe Factory , which provides help for the survivors of the National Socialist concentration camps and ghettos. In 1979 he was one of the founding members of the German-Polish Society Hannover e. V. In 1983 he participated in the establishment of the Ludwig Windthorst Foundation e. V. Lingen, of which he chaired and of which he was appointed honorary chairman in 2005. He was also a member and chairman of the board of trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation from 1979 to 1989 .

Others

Remmers was considered "one of the most prominent figures in political Catholicism in the 80s and 90s" (NDR on its 80th birthday). He was a sponsor and "political foster father" of the Lower Saxony Prime Minister and later Federal President Christian Wulff .

"He did not shy away from conflicts with Union politicians from the south." (Faz)

Remmers gained further notoriety through his early morning interviews on Deutschlandfunk , in which he criticized, among other things, the attitude of the bishops on the issue of pregnancy conflict counseling (Section 219 of the Criminal Code) and the positions of the Pope.

honors and awards

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Catholic Ludwig-Windthorst-Haus Lingen organized a festival academy .

A footpath in Lingen-Holthausen in Werner-Remmers-Patt was named in his honor in 2013 .

Fonts

  • The economy: a floor plan , Aschendorff 1963
  • The difference between celibacy based on faith and a Christian marriage based on faith is ultimately canceled out , Zentralredaktion des Evang. Press service, 1996, together with Josef Homeyer
  • Lower Saxony water saving program: Concept for saving drinking water in Lower Saxony , 1989
  • Chernobyl, Consequences and Consequences , 1987
  • Thermal recovery through incineration , 1988

literature

  • Volker Resing : Werner Remmers. The power of political Catholicism. 2nd edition, Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30522-1 .
  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 41st edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2002, p. 1142.
  • Who's Who in Germany , 1980, Volume 1, p. 1369.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CDU mourns Werner Remmers. In: RP Online . March 19, 2011, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  2. ^ Burkhard Müller: Dr. Werner Remmers was buried in Lingen on Friday. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . November 25, 2011, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Robert von Lucius: Personnel: Werner Remmers died. In: faz.net . March 20, 2011, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Volker Resing: CDU politician Werner Remmers is 80 years old. The political foster father of the Federal President. domradio.de , December 3, 2010, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Obituary. (PDF; 2.0 MB) In: Niedersächsisches Ministerialblatt. Lower Saxony State Chancellery , March 30, 2011, p. 245 , accessed December 15, 2016 .
  6. ^ Christiane Adam: Werner-Remmers-Patt was inaugurated in Lingen-Biene. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . March 23, 2013, accessed December 15, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Remmers, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Papenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2011