Wolfgang Lüder

Wolfgang Lüder 1991

Wolfgang Lüder (born April 11, 1937 in Celle ; † August 19, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and lawyer .

From 1971 to 1981 he was Berlin's FDP chairman, from 1975 to 1981 Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs, from 1976 to 1981 Deputy Mayor of Berlin and from 1987 to 1994 a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Lüder was born in 1937 as the son of an innkeeper; he attended the Ernestinum in Celle, an old-language grammar school. From 1957 he studied law at the Free University of Berlin . In 1961 he passed the first state examination in law, was a trainee lawyer a. a. at the Berlin Supreme Court. In 1967 he passed the second state examination in law. In 1970 he became an assessor at the public prosecutor's office , then a judge at the Berlin Regional Court.

In 1981 he established himself as a lawyer and was also a notary from 1991 to 2007 . Lüder was married three times and had a daughter.

Student and youth politicians

In 1957 he became a member of the Liberal Student Union (LSD), where he was elected chairman of the Berlin state in 1961, national chairman in 1962 and deputy national chairman in 1963. At the Free University he became chairman of the student parliament in 1958 and student spokesman in the academic senate in 1959 . Here he was a leader in the movement against nuclear armament, emphasizing that he was concerned with disarmament in West and East.

Lüder joined the FDP in 1962, and in 1963 the FDP youth organization German Young Democrats (DJD). In 1967 he was elected state chairman, and in 1968 he was elected national chairman of the Young Democrats for two years .

Berlin FDP leader and mayor

In 1970 he became a member of the FDP federal executive committee. In May 1971 the Berlin FDP elected him as the most prominent representative of the left-wing liberal wing as state chairman. Until 1979 he was regularly re-elected in this capacity.

In the 1975 elections in Berlin , he became a Berlin Senator for Economics in an SPD / FDP coalition. After the resignation of the FDP politician Hermann Oxfort as mayor and justice senator, Lüder also took over the office of Deputy Governing Mayor in July 1976. In 1979 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for a few months .

On January 7, 1981 he announced his resignation in the wake of a surety scandal ( Garski affair ) involving an FDP member, the building contractor Dietrich Garski . The FDP parliamentary group in the House of Representatives had urged him to do so. However , he rejected “guilt or accusation” .

Member of the Bundestag

From 1987 to 1994 he was a member of the German Bundestag and became deputy chairman of the interior committee. In 1987 he was elected by the Berlin House of Representatives in proportion to the faction; In 1990 he moved into parliament on the FDP state list . In 1991 he was one of the co-authors of the cross-party motion “ Completion of the Unity of Germany (Berlin Motion) ”, which was passed by the Bundestag on June 20, 1991 in a roll call with 338: 320 votes and finally incorporated into the Berlin / Bonn Act of 1994 flowed. In 1993 Lüder was wrongly suspected of having worked for the Stasi .

Documents relating to his work for the FDP are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Memberships

Wolfgang Lüder was an active humanist until his death and was a member of both the state and federal executive boards of the Humanist Association of Germany . He was also a member of the board of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy , member of the presidium of the Berlin regional association of the German Society for the United Nations , member of the board of trustees of the Karl Hamann Foundation and board member of the German-Chinese Society (Friends of Taiwan) , of which he was federal chairman until 2008 was.

In 1980 he was awarded the French Ordre national du Mérite . Wolfgang Lüder had been the city ​​elder of Berlin since 2012 .

See also

• Senate Schütz III - Senate Stobbe I - Senate Stobbe II

literature

• "Radical, but correct" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1970, p. 22nd f . ( online interview).
• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 250.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Lüder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Lüder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Lüder's curriculum vitae on the website of the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises in Berlin
• Obituary for Wolfgang Lüder on the website of the Humanist Association of Germany
• Obituaries for Wolfgang Lüder on the pages of Der Tagesspiegel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Lüder: Too left for Bonn - too right for Pankow ("Konkret" and the movement against nuclear armament). In: The argument . 1, October 28, 1959, issue 9, p. 4 ff.
2. ^ Klaus R. Allerbeck : Obituary for Wolfgang Lüder. In: Newsletter of the Association of Liberal Academics . 2013, No. 4, p. 6.
3. ^ The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act. Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records , Berlin 2013, p. 221 f ,; bundestag.de (PDF; 12.8 MB).