Wolfgang Egerter

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Wolfgang Egerter (born December 4, 1930 in Schluckenau , Czechoslovakia ; † September 8, 2008 in Rosbach vor der Höhe ) was a German politician ( CDU ), Sudeten German expellee functionary and adult educator. From 1990 to 1992 he was State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs at the Thuringian state government .

Life

Origin, studies and profession

Egerter attended a national political educational institution during the time of National Socialism . At the age of fourteen he was with his family from the northern Sudetenland sold . He settled in Landshut .

Egerter later studied history , German literature and geography at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz ( MA in Eastern European History). From 1961 to 1977 he was a teacher and director of the folk high school for young academics in Hesse. He also lectured at the Burse in Marburg.

Displacement issue

Egerter had been involved in a leading position in the Sudeten German Youth (SdJ) since 1950 , and from 1952 to 1961 he was also the spokesman for the Working Group of Sudeten German Students (ASST). In 1953, at a Sudeten German university conference with Czechs and Slovaks, he founded the Young Generation Working Group on Central and Eastern European issues . He then transferred the AAST to the German Guild (DG), of which he was a member.

From 1955 to 1986 Egerter was a leading member, most recently Deputy Federal Chairman of the Völkisch Sudeten German Witikobund . In 1986, he said he left the Witikobund because he no longer shared their revanchist views.

From 1972 to 1988 he was the first chairman of the DG. He was also involved in the Sudeten German Council , the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft (SL) and the Sudetendeutsches Sozial- und Bildungswerk (SSBW), from 1994 to 2006 chairman of the federal association and from 2007 to 2008 chairman of the foundation. He was also a member of the Federal Assembly and, in 1984, of the National Board of the SL. In addition, Egerter was one of the initiators of the Call for Reconciliation 95 in the 1990s .

In 2002 he co-founded the Central Europe Academy in Bad Kissingen , of which he was executive director.

Activity in politics

Hesse

Egerter met the CDU member of the state parliament Walter Wallmann at the Central Europe College . He joined the CDU Hessen and founded the CDU city association in Rosbach vor der Höhe in 1970 and in 1981 he became district chairman of the CDU Wetterau .

From 1977 to 1988 he was a research assistant for the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament . In 1989, as the successor to Rudolf Wirtz, he became the head of the liaison office to the churches and religious communities in the office of Prime Minister Walter Wallmann in the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden. This sparked violent protests because Egerter was accused of being right-wing extremists. The chairman of the Jewish community, Ignatz Bubis , prevented the change. The circumstances of the appointment by State Secretary Alexander Gauland , the so-called affair Gauland , were later processed in the key novel Finks Krieg by Martin Walser .

Thuringia

Instead, after reunification, Egerter became head of the "Hessen office" in Erfurt , Thuringia , in order to coordinate the east of the Thuringian state government. He was u. a. responsible for the partnership between Lesser Poland and Thuringia. From 1992 to 2004 he was the personal advisor to Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel (CDU). During this time Egerter represented Thuringia in the Federalism Commission . One of the results of his work is the move of the Federal Labor Court (BAG) from Kassel to Erfurt. He also established contacts in Central and Eastern Europe for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Robert Bosch Foundation .

family

Egerter was of Roman Catholic faith. He was married from 1964 and the father of two children.

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Kurt Heißig : Wolfgang Egeter (obituary) . In: Blätter der Deutschen Gildenschaft 1/2009, p. 19 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Günter Reichert (Red.): The Heiligenhof. Education and meeting place in Bad Kissingen. 60 years. 1952-2012 . Sudeten German Social and Education Foundation, Bad Kissingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035894-4 , 23.
  3. ↑ a b c Tobias Weger : “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German organizations, 1945–1955 (= The Germans and Eastern Europe . Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57104-0 , p. 592.
  4. ↑ Tobias Weger: “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German organizations, 1945–1955 (= The Germans and Eastern Europe . Volume 2). Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57104-0 , p. 305.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Wetterauer CDU mourns Egerter . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , northern edition, September 10, 2008, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Undressed world . In: Der Spiegel , 12/1989, March 20, 1989, p. 112.
  7. ^ Cathrin Kahlweit: Fink's small war . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 26, 1996, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Egerter, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament, State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Schluckenau in Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 2008
Place of death Rosbach vor der Höhe