Wolfgang Vogt (politician, 1929)

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Wolfgang Vogt (right) in 1989 with the Spanish Labor Minister Manuel Chaves in Bonn

Wolfgang Vogt (born December 1, 1929 in Schirgiswalde ; † December 12, 2006 in Düren ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag , Lord Mayor of the city of Düren and served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs .

Life and work

After high school in 1949 in Bautzen fled Vogt on 1 February 1950 for political reasons from the former East Germany to West Berlin and a study of the completed 1950 Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne , as which he 1956 Diploma - Economist ended. He then worked as a research assistant at the Sociological Seminar of the University of Cologne. He worked as an association education officer for the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB) and as a lecturer at the Catholic Social Institute of the Archdiocese of Cologne in Bad Honnef . In 1959 he became editor-in-chief of the "Ketteler-Wacht", the organ of the Catholic workers' movement. Vogt moved to Düren in the 1960s.

Wolfgang Vogt was married and the father of two children.

politics

After joining the CDU in 1946, Vogt was a full-time employee of the party in Bautzen until 1949 . After that, he was a member of the CDU state board in North Rhine-Westphalia for several years and from 1975 to 1995 he was state chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) in North Rhine-Westphalia . Vogt was from 20 October 1969 to 26 October 1998 on a full eight legislatures, Member of the German Bundestag. Here he was as chairman of the working group " workers " of 26 June 1981 to 14 October 1982, and again from 21 May 1996 to his retirement from the Parliament to the Executive Board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on.

Wolfgang Vogt entered the Bundestag in 1969 and 1994 via the CDU state list in North Rhine-Westphalia and otherwise always as a directly elected member of constituency 56 (Düren) . From 1972 to 1989 Vogt was also a member of the Düren City Council .

Public offices

From 1972 to 1983, Vogt served as honorary mayor or mayor of the city of Düren (during his term of office, the official title of “mayor” was changed to “mayor” in 1976). On October 4, 1982 Vogt was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs Norbert Blüm (CDU). As a result of the formation of a new government after the Bundestag election in 1990 , he was no longer appointed and left office on January 24, 1991.

Act

Together with Karl-Albert Eßer he wrote the "Twelve Christian-Social Commandments", which put Christian social teaching and people in the foreground of politics.

Honors

Due to his services, Vogt was appointed honorary chairman of the Düren CDU. For his political work, he was awarded the star of the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985 . In 1998, Wolfgang Vogt was awarded the Heinrich Brauns Prize by the Diocese of Essen for his commitment to the Catholic social order and the Christian social movement. The city of Düren's ring of honor followed in 2004.

literature

  • Bohrer und Brett - Remembering and Reflecting , published by Karl-Albert Eßer, Porschen & Bergsch Mediendienstleistungen, Merzenich, 2007

Works

  • Twelve Christian Social Commandments

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