Wolfgang Vogelsgesang

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Wolfgang Maria Vogelsgesang (born June 16, 1932 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † April 8, 2000 ) was a Bavarian local politician.

Life and work

Wolfgang Vogelsgesang spent most of his life in Munich , where he was involved in various ways in local and cultural politics and held numerous honorary posts.

Vogelsgesang married Gisela Mathilde Ruth Pauline Irene Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (1927–2001), daughter of General Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (1896–1989) on April 1, 1959 . The marriage was divorced on June 11, 1991, and Vogelsgesang married Elke Elisabeth Schmidt (* 1964) on July 18, 1991. From the first marriage there are three sons and a daughter, from the second marriage there is another daughter.

After primary school, Vogelsgesang first attended the Altsprachliche Gymnasium in Landau from the school year 1943, which he left on December 18, 1947 to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder on January 1, 1948, which he completed in 1951. At the beginning of October 1955 he moved to Munich, where, in addition to his work as a bookbinder, he attended evening courses in trimesters from October 1, 1955 to July 16, 1956 at the master school for bookbinders at the Academy for the Graphic Arts in Munich under Professor Fritz Wiese. Subsequently, from September 1957 to July 1958, he attended the full semester of craftsmanship and founded the association of former master bookbinders. On July 11, 1958, he passed the master craftsman's examination, was on the board of the Munich-Upper Bavaria Bookbinding Guild from 1979 to 1990 and from 1979 to 1994 a member of the plenary assembly of the Munich and Upper Bavaria Chamber of Crafts as an elected expert.

From August 1, 1958 to July 31, 1964 managing director of the Evangelical Craftsmen's Association of 1848 eV, at the same time deputy home manager; Honorary member since 1982, golden badge of honor 1983, deputy chairman 1986 to 1990.

July 1, 1964 to June 30, 1997 Managing Director of the Evangelical Working Group of the CSU in Bavaria. Adviser to the CSU state management for various tasks (at times sports, health policy, local politics, police, special tasks). 1991 to 1997 managing director of the CSU public service working group.

Together with Gerhard Mertins , Gerhard Löwenthal and Erich Strätling, Vogelsgesang was one of the supporters of Colonia Dignidad in Chile and also visited the facilities there. According to his testimony at a hearing of the Bundestag in 1988 on the allegations against the Colonia Dignidad, Vogelgesangs visited four times between 1978 and 1982 for several days each time (as he emphasized privately). He reported:

“Back then, on all of my visits, I had extremely positive impressions, which were also confirmed by a large number of later visitors. That goes on into modern times. Among other things, Mr. Bossle had reported very positively about it at the time and made statements that went so far that he even praised Mr. Schäfer, who was constantly mentioned here , and wished him stamina. [...] According to what I perceived and saw in this German settlement - it was always several days, at that time it was five days on my first visit, ten days later - there was no reason to assume that there was terror and torture there give. "

Elsewhere he particularly praised the connection with Bavarian tradition shown in the Colonia: "People are conservative, think of Bavaria, show the flag with a lion and diamond, hope for Germany."

Church work

Development of the Protestant youth work in Landau from 1945. Leading in the student Bible circles, the later youth watch. For this organization of the Reichstag 1952 under the direction of Bundestag President Dr. Hermann Ehlers in Landau. Editing of the community newspaper “Die Stiftskirche” until 1955.

Development of the youth work of the Evangelischer Handwerkerverein von 1848 eV in Munich in its homes Wichernhaus and Zöcklerhaus from 1956 to 1965.

Active in the preparation and implementation of the German Evangelical Church Congress in Munich in 1959. Since then active at all church conventions.

Member of the church council of the Carolinenkirche in Munich-Obermenzing from 1972 to 1984

politics

Member of the CDU in Landau / Pfalz since November 1st, 1951 , at the same time district chairman of the Junge Union until 1955. With the move to Munich in 1955, member of the CSU. Chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CSU Munich from 1969 to 1991, member of the regional executive committee since 1957. Chairman of the local political association of the CSU Munich from 1973 to 1990.

Political mandates:

  • 1960–1966: Member of the district committee in district 9 (Wiesenviertel)
  • 1966–1978: Chairman of the District Committee 37 (Obermenzing)
  • 1990–1992: Member of District Committee 37 (Obermenzing); 1992 dissolution of this district committee by the new division of the city district
  • 1966–1970: Member of the District Assembly of Upper Bavaria
  • 1969–1990: Member of the City Council of the City of Munich as successor to Walter Hopf, who died in February 1969. Managing Director of the CSU parliamentary group from 1969 to 1984 and 1986 to 1990, partly press spokesman for the parliamentary group . Most recently he was a member of the Economic Committee and the Sports Committee, speaker of the parliamentary group in the administrative committee. Administrative Advisory Board for the Municipal Libraries and the Allied Forces.
  • 1972–1978: Member of the culture committee of the German Association of Cities
  • 1978–1984: Member of the press committee
  • 1978–1990: Member of the Statistical Committee.
  • Co-initiator of Munich's membership in the Council of European Communities. Member as representative of the state capital Munich, elected to the main committee of the section. In the same functions representative of the CSU in Bavaria from 1984 to 1990.
  • 1969–1984: Member of the supervisory board of Bayerische Ferngas GmbH for the state capital Munich.

Blutenburg Castle and International Youth Library

Wolfgang Vogelsgesang earned his greatest merit through the initiative to protect Blutenburg Castle in the west of Munich from disintegration and the accommodation of the International Youth Library as a future user of the castle from 1983. He has received many awards for this achievement.

Awards (selection)

Publications

Wolfgang Vogelsgesang has published a large number of writings and books, mostly self-published at first and later in the Erasmus-Grasser-Verlag, which he founded. A selection:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The BND and Colonia Dignidad, known for torture and child abuse" ( Memento of September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - Article by Gaby Weber on Telepolis of September 22, 2011
  2. ↑ Minutes of a hearing of the Bundestag in 1988 on human rights violations and deprivation of liberty / Bundestag Protocol No. 10 of February 22, 1988 of the Subcommittee on Human Rights. P. 76f online
  3. ↑ "The torture was clean and tidy" - article by Dirk Kurbjuweit in Die Zeit , 42/1997
personal data
SURNAME Vogelsgesang, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogelsgesang, Wolfgang Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (CDU, CSU)
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2000