Wolfram Dorn (politician)

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Dorn with Genscher 1977

Wolfram Dorn (born July 18, 1924 in Altena ; † June 17, 2014 in Halver ) was a German politician ( FDP ) and writer . From 1969 to 1972 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior .

Life and work

After attending elementary and rectorate school, Dorn attended an agricultural school in Letmathe . Dorn had joined the Reich Colonial Association and was preparing for an agricultural activity in Cameroon , which, according to Nazi plans, was to become a German colony again. From 1942 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Waffen SS and was taken prisoner by the British in 1944 , from which he was released in 1946.

After his release from captivity, Dorn began training as an industrial clerk with a subsequent administrative examination for the public service. From 1949 he was first an administrative employee and then managing director at the FDP. From 1962 to 1969 he was director of the German Association of Architects and Engineers and editor-in-chief of the German magazine for architects and engineers. From 1973 to 1977 he was the publishing director of the magazine liberal . After working as a freelance writer in the meantime, Dorn took over as deputy chairman of the DATUM research and consulting institute in 1981/82 .

From 1982 to 1985 Dorn was director of the Westdeutsche Landesbank - Girozentrale . Since 1985 he has worked as a freelance writer . At the ninth writers' congress of the Association of German Writers (VS) , today in ver.di , in Frankfurt am Main (September 8-10, 1989), he was elected to the federal executive board; In 1991 he became deputy federal chairman of the association, from which he left in 2005.

Political party

Dorn, who had been a Hitler Youth leader during the Nazi era and became a member of the NSDAP in 1942 at the age of 18 (membership number 9.320.655), joined the FDP in 1948 . In the 1950s and 1960s he was district and district chairman of his party in Bonn and Altena - Lüdenscheid . 1953/54 and 1960–1962 he was a member of the state board of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1970 he was elected deputy state chairman of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia for one term (until 1972). 1970–1972 he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee.

MP

Dorn was a member of Werdohl's city ​​council from 1951 to 1965 . From 1962 to 1968 he was also a member of the district council in the Altena district . From 1954 to 1961, from 1975 to 1980 and from 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From 1961 to 1972 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1962 to 1968 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group internal policy and from 1968 to 1969 deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group .

Dorn has always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Documents about Dorn's work for the FDP and in the German Bundestag are in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Public offices

From 1953 to 1955 Dorn was mayor of Werdohl .

On October 22, 1969, Dorn was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt .

In the summer of 1972, Dorn came under public criticism because of a consulting contract with Heinrich Bauer Verlag through a publication in the magazine Der Spiegel and therefore resigned from his office on August 31, 1972. In 1974, however, after the conclusion of several civil trials and a discontinued investigation, he was innocent.

Awards

  • 1965 Golden badge of honor and plaque of honor from the Association of Returnees and Prisoners of War
  • 1967 Golden badge of honor from the Liberal Student Union of Germany
  • 1969 Golden Ring of Honor of the Altena district
  • 1969 First Federal "Golden Circle" award from the Association of Freelance Architects
  • 1971 Large honorary plaque for special humanitarian aid by the State of Tunisia
  • 1971 Large Gold Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 1972 Plaque of Honor from the University of Hiroshima
  • 1972 Medal of Honor of the City of Hiroshima
  • 1972 Golden badge of honor and thus honorary membership in the Japanese parliament awarded by Naka Funada. Previously and afterwards award not given to a non-Japanese again.
  • 1976 The hesitant of the city of Altena for literary engagement
  • 1979 Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1985 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1995 Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1999 entry in the " Guinness Book of Records ", Wolfram Dorn worked in parliament for 62 years, 11 months and 19 days. World record

Cabinets

Web links

Commons : Wolfram Dorn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorn Obituaries
  2. ^ German Bundestag: Wolfram Dorn, Willi Weiskirch . Volume 15 of Members of the German Bundestag: Notes and Memories, Harald Boldt Verlag im R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56271-1 , p. 23.
  3. ↑ Helmut Violence: Members of the Bundestag / I.-X. Legislative period: Former NSDAP and / or branch memberships. (PDF) Willi-Bredel -Gesellschaft Geschichtswerkstatt eV, October 20, 2005, p. 2 , accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Note in: Der Spiegel from August 20, 1972, p. 20 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  6. ↑ a b Wolfram Dorn: Orders, certificates, honors. Kirsch, Nümbrecht 2012, ISBN 978-3-933586-91-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Thorn, tungsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Altena
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 2014
Place of death Halver