Wilhelm Helms

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Wilhelm Helms' candidate poster for the 1984 European elections

Wilhelm Helms (born December 19, 1923 in Bissenhausen ; † December 8, 2019 in Vechta ) was a German politician ( DP , FDP and CDU ).

Life

After graduating from high school, Helms was drafted into military service and served in the Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1945 . After the war, he completed an agricultural apprenticeship and took over his parents' farm in 1948. From 1956 Helms was a local councilor in Heiligenloh . From 1961 to 1972 he was mayor there and at the same time had a district council mandate. In addition, he was from 1964 to 1968 District Administrator of County Hoya . Until 1962 Helms was a member of the German party ; In 1963 he joined the FDP, where he became district chairman of Elbe-Weser. In autumn 1969 he moved into the German Bundestag via the state list of the FDP Lower Saxony . After this election, a social-liberal coalition came to power for the first time .

On April 23, 1972, Helms resigned from the FDP parliamentary group in the course of a debate about the Eastern Treaty that was divisive for large parts of society at the time . He said that he no longer saw the "liberal independence" of the FDP as a given. This and other party converts encouraged the CDU / CSU parliamentary group to apply on April 24, 1972 for a constructive no-confidence vote against Willy Brandt in favor of Rainer Barzel . Since Helms and two other FDP MPs had made it clear immediately after the failure of the vote of no confidence that they had voted for the application, two members of the Barzel Union had to refuse to vote. From May 5, 1972, Helms was a guest of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and left the Bundestag after the early elections in autumn 1972 .

From 1979 to 1984 Helms was a member of the first European Parliament for the CDU . There he was a member of the Agriculture Committee for the EPP Group from 1979 to 1984 and a member of the Transport Committee from 1980 to 1981. From 1983 to 1984 he was also vice chairman of the delegation for relations with Canada .

Others

Helms sued the Munich district court against a passage in Brandt's memoir, according to which he had confessed to Brandt in a one-on-one conversation "with tears in his eyes" that he would vote against Brandt "because of the court" with the CDU opposition and achieved one interim injunction with which the further delivery of the book was stopped.

In the second instance, the Munich Higher Regional Court gave Brandt right; Brandt had "made it credible" that his description was correct. However, Brandt did not mention the conversation on April 28, 1972 and even did not mention Helms in the further editions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kreiszeitung: Member of the Bundestag Wilhelm Helms has died 
  2. ↑ Martin Müller: The constructive vote of no confidence. Chronicle and comments on the first application of Art. 67 GG . In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues . tape 3 , no. 3 , 1972, ISSN  0340-1758 , p. 275-291 , JSTOR : 24201364 .
  3. ↑ Elections to the 6th German Bundestag: CDU and CSU achieve 46.1%. The SPD and FDP then agree on a government coalition. September 1, 2010, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ finding aid 08-001 CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Archive for Christian-Democratic Politics of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V., accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 1st electoral term | Wilhelm HELMS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Brandt wins over Helms . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1990 ( online - Aug. 6, 1990 ).
  7. ↑ Andreas Grau: In search of the missing votes 1972. On the aftermath of the failed vote of no confidence in Barzel / Brandt. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Helms, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bissenhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2019
Place of death Vechta