Wolfgang Döring

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Wolfgang Döring (born November 11, 1919 in Leipzig , † January 17, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) was a German FDP politician .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1937 and completing the Reich Labor Service , Döring was a career officer until the end of World War II , most recently as captain of the tank troops. He fell into French captivity , from which he fled to North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1946 to 1950 he was the operations manager of a machine factory in Mülheim an der Ruhr before joining the FDP full-time.

Political party

Döring joined the FDP after the Second World War and on August 1, 1950, became chief executive of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association .

Döring originally advocated a policy of “national collection” in order to secure an independent FDP vis-à-vis the CDU , but quickly recognized the hopelessness of this endeavor and positioned itself - especially after the events of the Naumann affair - from the mid-1950s onwards on the rule of law wing of the party. He belonged to the so-called Young Turks around Willi Weyer , Walter Scheel and Hans Wolfgang Rubin , who overthrew the government of Karl Arnold (CDU) in 1956 and thus led to the split-off of the ministerial wing and, in the long term, to the opening of the FDP to the political center. In 1956 he initiated talks between the FDP and the LDPD in the GDR , which took place in Weimar and Garmisch and were a harbinger of the " new Ostpolitik " later pursued by Walter Scheel and Hans-Dietrich Genscher . Before the federal election in 1957 , he organized the central election campaign of the FDP. Together with Karl-Hermann Flach, he was one of the main authors of the “ Berlin Program ”. Flach later said of Döring's programmatic change of course: “I made friends with Döring with liberal principles, he trimmed me pragmatically ”. In 1962 he was elected deputy federal chairman.

MP

From 1954 to 1958 Döring was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1955 he became deputy parliamentary group chairman and after the change of government on March 12, 1956, chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

From October 15, 1957 until his death, Döring was a member of the German Bundestag . He was elected from the state list in North Rhine-Westphalia and had been deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group since 1961 . As a member of the Bundestag in 1957, he asked the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office to examine whether George John Dasch could be charged in Germany for treason against the sabotage operation “Pastorius” in the USA during World War II. In the Bundestag debate on the Spiegel affair at the end of 1962, he accused Konrad Adenauer and the CDU / CSU of a disturbed relationship with the law.

Döring, who had had a heart condition for years, died of a heart attack while driving to Düsseldorf. As a result of his speech in the Bundestag on the Spiegel affair, (unproven) rumors emerged, especially from the GDR , that the Federal Intelligence Service or the military shielding service had caused the death.

Documents on Döring's work for the FDP and in the German Bundestag are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Honors

The Wolfgang Döring Foundation , which is close to the FDP , the Wolfgang Döring House, the party headquarters of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf , and streets in Düsseldorf and Göttingen are named after Döring . In the 1960s there was a Wolfgang Döring Society that, together with the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia, awarded the Wolfgang Döring Medal .

literature

  • Wolfram Dorn , Wolfgang Wiedner: Freedom is the future. Wolfgang Döring. A political biography . Edited by the Wolfgang Döring Foundation, Düsseldorf, Liberal-Verlag, Bonn 1974.
  • Karl Georg Egel, Harri Czepuck: Döring says how it is . German military publisher, Berlin 1964.
  • Gerhard Papke : Liberal force of order, national collection movement or middle class party? The FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia 1946–1966 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1998.
  • Gisela Wiedner-Zerwas: The development of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1951 to 1956 with special consideration of the person Wolfgang Döring . Duisburg 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Quoted from Joachim Bretschneider, Harald Hofmann: Karl-Hermann Flach. Liberal out of passion , Bertelsmann , Gütersloh 1974, p. 24.
  2. "Shoot or Hang?" The Seal, April 6, 1998.