Wilhelm Knittel
Wilhelm Knittel (born March 10, 1935 in Breslau ) is a German politician of the CSU .
education and profession
After graduating from high school in 1955 at the municipal high school in Fulda , Knittel studied law as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Southampton / England and Harvard , USA. During his studies, Knittel became a member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Frankonia-Strasbourg to Frankfurt am Main and K.St.V. Albertia Munich in KV . In 1962 he was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate, passed both state exams and earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard in 1964.
In 1964 he joined the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice as a court assessor. 1966–1969 he worked at the Bavarian state representation in Bonn . In 1970 he became personal assistant to the Bavarian Minister of Justice, Philipp Held. In 1973 he was the presiding judge of a criminal chamber before he became head of the office of the CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss from 1974 to 1978 as a ministerial advisor on leave . In 1978 he took over the management of the office of Prime Minister Strauss in the Bavarian State Chancellery. From 1981 to 1983 he headed the Legislation and Law Department in the State Chancellery. In 1984 he was appointed Ministerial Director and Office Head of the Bavarian Ministry of Justice.
Public offices
In July 1987 Knittel was appointed permanent state secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport . He worked there under the federal ministers Jürgen Warnke (CSU), Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU), Günther Krause (CDU) and Matthias Wissmann (CDU). At the end of March 1995, he was given temporary retirement at his own request because of differences of opinion over the management of the ministry.
Dr. Wilhelm Knittel was a member of the CSU in the municipal council of Grünwald from 2001 to 2014.
family
Knittel is married and has two daughters and five grandchildren.
Political party
He joined the CDU in Fulda in 1959 and transferred to the CSU in Munich in 1965.
Publications
- Applicable and non-applicable foreign law in international private law . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1963 (dissertation).
- On the problem of retroactive effect in the event of a change in case law. An investigation into the German and American. Right . Gieseking, Bielefeld 1965 (publications on German and European civil, commercial and procedural law, vol. 33).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Knittel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Wilhelm Knittel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17/1987 , April 20, 1987, ISSN 0038-7452 , pp. 270–271 ( spiegel.de [PDF; accessed November 5, 2017]).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Knittel, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CSU) |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |