Bruno Heck
Bruno Heck ( born January 20, 1917 in Aalen, † September 16, 1989 in Blaubeuren ) was a German politician ( CDU). He was from 1962 to 1968 Federal Family Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1967 to 1971 the first Secretary General of the CDU.
Education and work
Bruno Heck was born on 20 January 1917 as a son of the castle gardener Joseph and Magdalene in the county town of Aalen, amid the Swabian Alb and brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. He attended the Catholic seminary in Rottweil since 1932. As a student he joined the Bund founded in 1919 Neudeutschland. After graduation in 1936, Heck began studying philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Tübingen. In 1938 he was called up for military service and then took up in 1945 as a soldier in the Air Force in the Second World War, in part, his last rank was lieutenant. After the war he resumed his studies, extended to the classical philology, again. In 1949, he was also a member of A.V. Cheruskia Tübingen in the CV. He graduated from the two State Examination for Higher teacher and was then 1949/50, was a Research Assessor at Albertus -Magnus -Gymnasium Rottweil. In 1950 he became the Dr. phil. with the work of his doctorate, the arrangement of the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus. From 1950 to 1952 he worked as a Councillor in the Ministry of Education of Württemberg- Hohenzollern. After that, he was national director of the CDU and thus full time politician.
Party
Since 1946, Heck was a member of the CDU. From 1952 to 1958 he was national secretary of the CDU. From 1967 to 1971 he was the first who filled the newly created position of General Secretary of the CDU. Tail greatest success as a party manager was the federal election in 1957, when the CDU / CSU for the first and only time ( and the only party in the German democratic parliamentary history ) an absolute majority of votes ( 50.2 %) achieved. Heck had studied American campaign methods in the U.S.; also the leading CDU politician Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard were at the peak of their reputation. Heck was also an essential initiator of the new building of the CDU Federal Center (Konrad -Adenauer -Haus) in Bonn.
For rear presented the outcome of the federal election in 1969 the biggest defeat dar. Although the CDU / CSU Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger whose confidant was stern, again almost reached the absolute majority ( 46.1 %) of the second votes and thus again the strongest faction in the Bundestag was succeeded in the SPD 42.7 %, together with the FDP (5.8%), the CDU to displace from the federal government and sending them to the opposition. Kiesinger lost the Chancellor's Office to Willy Brandt, and 1971 was also the term of office of party chairman Kiesinger and its Secretary General to the rear end.
From 1968 to 1989, heralded rear as chairman of the CDU-affiliated Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung (KAS ) and expanded its activities nationally and internationally greatly from. He also let the new KAS office in Sankt Augustin near Bonn build. As KAS Chairman expressed the stern of the 68-movement: " The Rebellion of 1968 has more values destroyed when the Third Reich. To cope with you, is therefore important, one more time to overcome Hitler as " ( in: The Political Opinion, 1983)..
Member of Parliament
From 1957 to 1976 Heck was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was from 1957 to 1961 Chairman of the Committee for Cultural politics and journalism and 1961-1962 Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Heck drew constantly as a directly elected delegates of the constituency Rottweil in the Bundestag.
Public offices
On December 13, 1962 Heck was appointed Federal Minister for Family and Youth Affairs in led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer government. As of October 17, 1963 his Ministry was renamed as the now led by Ludwig Erhard Federal Government Federal Ministry for Family and Youth. Following the resignation of the FDP Federal Minister on 28 October 1966 on the stern took place from 8 to November 30, 1966 in addition the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. In the cabinet of the grand coalition under Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger officiated tail then again from December 1, 1966. Exclusively as Federal Minister for Family and Youth On 1 October 1968 he resigned then, in order to devote as Secretary-General of the CDU throughout the election campaign for the federal election in 1969 can.
Debate to Chile travel
Shortly after the coup in Chile traveled stern on behalf of the Union party to Chile, to gather information on the situation there. Heck was already by his long- standing contacts with the Chilean Christian Democrats familiar with the situation in the country. Back in Germany, he reported during a press conference on October 17, 1973, of his visit to the stadium of Santiago, in 5000 the prisoners were housed. The accommodation of the prisoners he described as " very bad". Although the prisoners could now move in contrast to the previous weeks outdoors, which in sunny weather is sure to be enjoyable. In the rain and cold the lives of prisoners in is " unbearable and hideous ". The Süddeutsche Zeitung quoted him next day with the sentence: "Life in the stadium is quite pleasant in sunny spring weather ." Heck was then accused of trivializing and support of the coup and the Pinochet regime. In a statement on November 4, 1973 Stern told that his description of the situation in the stadium had been turned upside down.
Cabinets
- Cabinet Adenauer V - Cabinet Erhard I - Cabinet Erhard II - Cabinet Kiesinger
Honors
Publications
- As editor: we die from? The population development in the Federal Republic of Germany. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau ), and others, 1988, ISBN 3-451-21211-0.
- As Editor: Heinz Hürten, Wolfgang Jäger, Hugo Ott: Hans Filbinger - the "case" and the facts. A historical and political science analysis. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1980, ISBN 3-7758-1002-1.