Wolfgang D. Kramer

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Wolfgang Dieter Kramer (born January 26, 1930 in Jena ; † September 23, 2015 in Pfeffikon ) was a German politician ( CDU ) in Hamburg .

Life and Political Work

Kramer was born in Jena as the son of a teacher and attended high schools in Cottbus and Erfurt . He fled the Soviet zone of occupation to Hamburg in 1948 and began studying history at the Universities of Freiburg , Tübingen and the University of Hamburg in 1949 , but dropped out due to fear of exams.

In 1950 he became a member of the European Movement . Between 1952 and 1954 he worked for a publishing house in Hamburg, and from 1954 as a lecturer at the Hamburg regional association of the European Union . He became a member of the CDU Hamburg in 1964 and worked from 1967 to 1974 as a research assistant for the CDU parliamentary group.

From 1970 to 1974 Kramer was a member of the deputation of the school authorities and a member of the district assembly in the Hamburg-Mitte district . From March 3, 1974 (election day) to April 21, 1974 (resignation of the mandate ) he was a member of the Hamburg Parliament ( 8th electoral term ), the state parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He was a member of the submission committee .

On April 22, 1974, he became an employee of the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg - without meeting the requirement for a university degree for the higher service to be employed ; from 1976 until his retirement on February 1, 1995, he was deputy head of the facility as "Scientific Director in Administration". From 1985 to 2003, the head of the regional headquarters was Helga Kutz-Bauer , with whom Kramer had sat in 1974 in the city council.

Kramer moved back into the citizenry in 1993 (15th electoral term) (member of the submission committee and the committee for European affairs) and resigned there in 1997 after he had not been re-elected by the CDU party congress.

Kramer was married to Karina Kramer-Elsigan; the marriage remained childless. He committed using the organization " Dignitas " in Switzerland suicide and gave as a reason for him diagnosed spinal canal at.

Memberships

From 1959 to 1964, Kramer was state chairman of the non-partisan “ Young European Federalists ” (JEF) in Hamburg. In February 2002 Kramer was elected honorary member of the JEF.

He was the founder of the "European Foreigners Initiative Hamburg e. V. “, for which he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2006 .

Web links

literature

  • Wolfgang D. Kramer (Ed.): European Union Citizenship. A new perspective for German policy on foreigners. State Center for Political Education Hamburg, 1996. ISBN 978-3-929728-26-2 .
  • Wolfgang D. Kramer: The naturalization of "performance Germans". Thoughts and suggestions of the European Foreigners Initiative Hamburg on Germany's European future. Nordhausen (Traugott Bautz): 2013. ISBN 978-3-88309-848-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship , Personalalien-Volume for the 15th electoral term, press office of the Citizenship Chancellery, Hamburg October 1995, p. 197.
  2. ↑ a b c Handbook of the Hamburg Citizenship , personal data volume for the 8th electoral term, press office of the Citizenship Chancellery, Hamburg 1974.
  3. ↑ Homepage of the State Center for Civic Education Hamburg, accessed on September 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Miriam Kraus: After suicide in Switzerland. Hamburg politician Wolfgang Kramer leaves the Bundestag a disturbing letter. Hamburger Morgenpost of October 29, 2015, accessed on December 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Homepage Chronicle at www.jef-hamburg.de, accessed on June 10, 2018.
  6. ^ Extract of all resolutions and elections from the register of associations in file 69 VR 5904 (JEF Hamburg e.V.) at the Hamburg registry court.
  7. ↑ Award. Cross of Merit for CDU Kramer. Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 1, 2006, accessed December 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Wolfgang D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramer, Wolfgang Dieter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2015
Place of death Pfeffikon