Wilhelm Rahlfs

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Wilhelm Rahlfs (born August 24, 1938 in Neustadt am Rübenberge , † February 26, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German politician of the FDP and Hamburg senator.

Life and work

Rahlfs studied economics at the University of Hamburg . After graduating in 1963, he initially worked as a research assistant at the university. Since 1967 he was the Senate representative and head of the special department of the International Horticultural Exhibition 1973, which took place in Planten un Blomen . He then worked in the building authorities . From 1980 to 1985 he was head of the Hamburg advertising office .

politics

Rahlfs had been a member of the FDP since 1959. During his studies he was involved in the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD) and was LSD federal chairman in 1960/61. From 1970 to 1974 Rahlfs belonged to the Hamburg parliament for the first time , but was not nominated again by his party in 1974. After the state elections in 1987 , he moved into the state again and was initially chairman of the FDP parliamentary group until his election to the Senate. After the SPD had received an absolute majority in the 1991 parliamentary elections , he resigned from the Senate and resumed his parliamentary mandate. In the 14th electoral term (1991 to 1993) he was a member of the building committee, the budget committee and the urban development committee for his parliamentary group .

From 1987 to 1991 his mandate was suspended because he belonged to the Hamburg Senate. Under the mayors of Dohnanyi and Voscherau , he was Senator President of the Department of Economics, Transport and Agriculture.

Within the party, Rahlfs was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP as well as deputy state chairman and treasurer of the FDP Hamburg .

Attack on Rolf Becker

During a reading on Hamburg's Rathausmarkt on May 8, 2008 on the occasion of the anniversary of the book burning in Germany in 1933 , Rahlfs hit the actor Rolf Becker with his walking stick , who was quoting from a text by the poet Heinrich Heine . Rahlfs, who mostly walked on a cane after a stroke in 1989, explained the incident as a misunderstanding. He believed someone had violated the ban mile. In addition, he did not physically attack Becker. Finally, Wilhelm Rahlfs paid 5,000 euros to the state treasury as part of the termination of the criminal proceedings. He also paid 5,000 euros to Rolf Becker, who handed this amount over to the Auschwitz Committee (at the disposal of the 'Book Burning - Never Again!' Working group).

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  • Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 14th electoral period, editor: Hinnerk Fock , Hamburg 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Ex-Senator for Economic Affairs Wilhelm Rahlfs (FDP) died", in: Hamburger Abendblatt of February 27, 2014, page 9.
  2. ^ V. Erhard / U. Josten u. a. (Ed.): Commitment to freedom and democracy. Contributions to the history of the Liberal Student Union of Germany (LSD), Jena 2001, p. 132.
  3. ^ Walking stick attack: Hamburg ex-senator beats actor Rolf Becker - spiegel.de
  4. ↑ Ex-Senator beats up actors ( Memento from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), by Olaf Wunder on www.mopo.de from May 16, 2008
  5. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/nachrichten/nachrichten-des-tages/article917556/Ex-Wirtschaftssenator-pruegelt-auf-Schauspieler-ein.html
  6. ↑ Matthais Schmook: Ex- Senator for Economics beats actors , Hamburger Abendblatt , May 16, 2008
  7. ↑ Heinrich Heine - still dangerous  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 2.1 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gw-stgeorg.de
personal data
SURNAME Rahlfs, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Hamburg Senator
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt am Rübenberge
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2014
Place of death Hamburg