Wilhelm Imhoff

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm Imhoff (born July 14, 1910 in Kassel , † 1989 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1953 to 1978 he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Wilhelm Imhoff was a graduate economist. He was the owner of a wholesale laboratory supplies business. He was also Vice President of the Federal Association of German Wholesalers and Foreign Trade and the European Association for Laboratory Equipment. From 1956 to 1978 he was chairman of the Hamburg regional committee of the German Evangelical Church Congress . He was also the chairman of the permanent finance committee of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany , of which he was a member from 1959 to 1981. Until 1986 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten Foundation for ten years .

politics

Imhoff was a member of the CDU and was chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU Hamburg .

From 1953, when he was elected for the electoral alliance Hamburg-Block , until 1978 he belonged to the Hamburg citizenship and was mainly involved in the field of cultural policy. In 1970 he demanded that the director of the Thalia Theater Boy Gobert also be appointed director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . A suggestion that he could not get through. The citizenship elected him a member of the fourth federal assembly , which in 1964 re-elected Heinrich Lübke as federal president .

As a deputy of the cultural authority , which he was in addition to his parliamentary activity, he rejected demands in 1962 that politics should influence which theaters or plays are attended by subsidized institutions: “It contradicts the principles of a liberal cultural policy, the organizations of the Volksbühne and of the Kulturring der Jugend to make regulations on visiting theaters, the directors of which make use of their right to put political plays up for discussion. ”In contrast, in December 1965 he criticized the awarding of the Lessing Prize to Peter Weiss for his commitment to communism, since communist artists should not be awarded a state prize from state funds.

Honors

Publications

  • The Church and its Money , in: Evangelical Responsibility. Opinions and information from the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU / CSU , March 1975 issue, pages 3 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CDU mourns Wilhelm Imhoff. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , November 8, 1989, accessed on August 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ New chairman in the board of trustees. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, October 30, 1986, accessed on August 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL, issue of August 24, 1970.
  4. ↑ Quoted from DIE ZEIT, edition of February 6, 1962.
  5. ^ Hanna Leitgeb: The excellent author: municipal literary prizes and cultural policy in Germany (1926–1971) . deGruyter, Berlin 1994, p. 362.
  6. ↑ a b Award for Dr. Wilhelm Imhoff. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt, June 11, 1985, accessed on August 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Imhoff, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1989