Ernst Albrecht (politician)
Ernst Albrecht ( born June 29, 1930 in Leuchtenburg; Complete name: Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht ) is a former German politician of the CDU. He was from 1976 to 1990 Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.
Life
Albrecht was born as the son of the physician Carl Albrecht in Leuchtenburg in the former county Blumenthal at the border to Bremen. He is a great-grandson of the Bremen big merchant Baron Ludwig Knoop. Albrecht attended school in Bremen, Verden and Brake. From 1946 to 1948 he led a group of German boy shaft. Later, Albrecht philosophy and theology in Tübingen, Cornell (USA ) and Basel studied (with Karl Jaspers ). In 1953 he completed his subsequent studies of law and economics in Tübingen and Bonn with a degree in economics. In 1959 he received his doctorate on the subject of " liabilities of the mining community." In 1954, he was an emissary of the Coal and Steel Community, 1958 Head of Cabinet of the EEC Commission, 1969 General of the EC, 1971 to 1976 CEO of Bahlsen ( food industry).
Albrecht was a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony since 1970 and was elected on 15 January 1976 as an opposition candidate with votes from the social-liberal coalition surprising to succeed the retiring age reasons Prime Minister Alfred Kubel (SPD). This was the first Albrecht Lower Saxony CDU Prime Minister (see also: state elections in Lower Saxony).
In Albrecht's tenure as Prime Minister, the decision for the sparsely populated Lüchow- Dannenberg was taken as a nuclear center of the country. This was originally intended to include not only a interim storage facility for nuclear waste in Gorleben also the central German nuclear waste repository, a new nuclear power station on the River Elbe at Langendorf, a reprocessing plant for uranium fuel rods in Dragahn. The decision to Gorleben was how especially critics of the site conjecture, a political decision. You insinuate that Albrecht with the selection of Gorleben intention to promote a structurally weak zone border area. Also, it is argued that the Gorleben site was chosen by Albrecht in response to the adjacent repository for radioactive waste repository in the GDR.
During his tenure, the recording of Vietnamese refugees ( boat people ) became the first western state in 1979 and known as the Celler hole become fake bomb attack on the high-security prison in Celle for introduction of V -person falls into the left terrorist scene to the Red Army Faction.
After weeks of public debate, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group voted on July 2, 1979 in a secret ballot Franz Josef Strauss from the CSU to the common chancellor candidate for the federal election in 1980. Strauss received 135 of 237 votes, 102 deputies voted for Albrecht (43 percent).
In the Lower Saxony state parliament failed in December 1988, an introduced by the Social Democrats because of the casino affair constructive vote of no confidence against Albrecht with 76 against 79 votes. At least one member of the opposition parties, the SPD and the Greens has to have voted for Albrecht.
On 2 September 1989, the CDU faction separated in Lower Saxony after several scandals by Representative Kurt Vajen what led to the loss of parliamentary majority in the parliament result. The recently Incoming SPD politician Oswald High explained a little later his resignation from the SPD and secured as non-attached Members Albrecht from now the majority of 78 votes (CDU - FDP) to 77 votes (SPD - Green ) to the end of its term in Juni 1990.
In the regional elections on May 13, 1990 Albrecht lost his position as prime minister to the SPD challenger and, later, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
Albrecht was chairman of the board THALETEC GmbH and bought in 1993 with the Bremen merchant Hans Henry Lamotte the company. He was also a director of the construction company in 2007 GP Papenburg AG (see: Günter Papenburg ).
Albrecht is widowed and still lives on the family estate in Burgdorf- Beinhorn. In 1953 he had married two years older than Heidi Adele Stromeyer ( 1928-2002 ). She was graduated in Germanic Studies, died of cancer in 2002. The couple had seven children, including the CDU politician and federal Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen. His sons are called Harald, Hans -Holger, Barthold and Donatus. Hans -Holger Albrecht is president and CEO of Millicom International Cellular SA ( MIC). Daughter Benita Eva died in 1971 at age eleven and son Lawrence in 2005 with 49 years of cancer. Ernst Albrecht's brother is the conductor George Alexander Albrecht.
In May 2008, daughter Ursula von der Leyen announced publicly that her father was suffering from Alzheimer's; the disease was diagnosed in 2003. Since 2007, the nine-member family lives von der Leyen on the estate of Albrecht and acts in his care with.
Awards
Publications
- The state - idea and reality. Outlines of a philosophy of government. Seewald, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-512-00442-3.
- Memories, insights, decisions. Policy for Europe, Germany and Saxony. Barton, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-934648-00-2.
- The Albrecht Family: Awake in God's beautiful world / All birches in marsh green and Heid. Single, Ariola 15 588 AT ( o.J. )