Wilhelm Kewenig

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Wilhelm Alexander Kewenig (born June 20, 1934 in Cologne ; † June 18, 1993 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician , lawyer and university professor . Between 1981 and 1989 he was a senator for various business areas in the Berlin Senate .

Life and work

Wilhelm Alexander Kewenig was born as the son of the Cologne judge Dr. Otto Kewenig born and baptized Catholic. After graduating from high school in 1954, he studied law and political science at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Bonn , Paris , Cologne and the American University of Beirut until 1960 . In 1962 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. in Cologne, and in 1963 he passed the 2nd state examination. In 1964 he married Marianne Düren, with whom he had two sons. He was the brother of the lawyer and gallery owner Michael O. Kewenig, who died in 2017.

From 1965 to 1967 he graduated from Harvard Law School in Cambridge / Mass. the degree of a Master of Laws (LL.M.). There was, among others, Henry Kissinger one of his teachers. In 1969 he completed his habilitation in the field of international and constitutional law. In 1970 he began to work as an associate professor in Bonn. From 1971 to 1981 Kewenig was a full professor for public law and director of the Institute for International Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1974 and 1975 he was the rector of the university. Kewenig was chairman of the Science Council from 1976 to 1979. The Science Council is the central planning center in the higher education sector and develops recommendations for the federal and state governments. He was co-editor of the German Yearbook of International Law .

Grave in Melaten cemetery

After working in active politics, he joined a Frankfurt law firm in June 1989.

He was a member of the student association KDStV Ripuaria Freiburg in the CV .

His grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG).

politics

Kewenig had been a member of the CDU since 1971, and from 1974 to 1976 he worked on the CDU policy committee. He was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from June 1981 to 1989. Kewenig was elected as a direct candidate in the Charlottenburg constituency, constituency 5 with 44.6% for the CDU .

Kewenig was a member of the Berlin Senate for eight years with an interruption. He was Senator for Science and Cultural Affairs from 1981 to 1983 and Senator for Science and Research from 1983 to 1986. During this time he had an ongoing political dispute with the universities and was of the opinion that the universities should not be allowed to "destroy themselves as an outdoor enclosure for lawbreakers". He demanded that part of the scholarship (BAfÖG) should be treated as a loan component, since every study is a privilege vis-à-vis the majority of the population. He also fought for years against the establishment of autonomous gay and lesbian departments at the universities of Berlin.

In the second Senate of Diepgen , he was the Interior Senator from 1986 to 1989. He replaced Heinrich Lummer on April 17, 1986 . During his time as a senator, he fired the social democratic police president Klaus Huebner in order to be able to influence the police more directly. It became massive because of the large-scale police operations during Ronald Reagan's visit in June 1987, during which he cordoned off the whole of Kreuzberg 36 and had hundreds of demonstrators surrounded for hours in Tauentzienstrasse , the encirclement of a large part of a demonstration against the world meeting of the student organization CARP ( Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) of the Mun sect and police operations during the meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in September 1988. Statements such as "at the scene of the crime the freedom of the press has to step back" were the cause of criticism from the opposition and the media. During his time as Interior Senator, he survived three motions of no confidence. One of them referred to the Berlin constitution protection scandal, in which the security organ had secretly created dossiers about journalists and SPD members. Members of the Alternative List West Berlin were also observed by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution during his tenure. In response to May 1, 1987, Wilhelm Kewenig set up the police special unit for special situations and mission- related training , which repeatedly hit the headlines due to its ruthless approach in the context of many missions.

Other offices

In addition to his political offices, he was on the boards of the German Society for International Law , the German Society for Foreign Policy and the German Society for the United Nations . He was also a member of the Goethe Institute .

Awards

In 1984 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Publications

  • The coexistence of the religious community in Lebanon , 1965
  • Constitutional problems of parliamentary co-government using the example of the work of the Bundestag committees , 1970
  • The Principle of Non-Discrimination in the International Law of International Trade Relations , 1972
  • On the content and limits of freedom of broadcasting , 1978
  • Speeches and essays , 1984
  • Member of the editorial board of the Europa Archiv magazine
  • Co-editor of the German Yearbook of International Law

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 205.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Kewenig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Obituary notices from Wilhelm Kewenig | Tagesspiegel mourning. Retrieved September 25, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Alexander Kewenig. January 10, 2017, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Christos M. Joachimides: In conversation with the first art scene in the FRG. In: Café Germany. Städel Museum , March 7, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ Michael O. Kewenig: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  5. ^ Advocate of Beauty. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Academia, magazine of the Cartellervand of the Catholic German student associations, 86th vol., No. 4, Aug. 1993, p. 166 (obituary)
  7. ↑ Autonomous gay lecture in the AStA FU: Looking back. The presentation is fought for. ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), downloaded June 22, 2010
  8. ^ Kreuzberg: Lame Fritz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1987 ( online ).
  9. ↑ photo. In: tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kewenig, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kewenig, Wilhelm Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1993
Place of death Frankfurt am Main