Lauritz Lauritzen
Lauritz Lauritzen ( born January 20, 1910 in Kiel, † June 5, 1980 in Bad Honnef ) was a German politician ( SPD).
Education and work
Lauritz Lauritzen - son of Fritz Lauritzen, mayor of Elmschenhagen - visited the Empress Augusta Victoria -Gymnasium in Plön. 1929 Lauritzen joined the SPD in, and since the same year Lauritzen studied law and political science at the University of Freiburg and at the Christian- Albrechts-University of Kiel, where he was a pupil of Ferdinand Tönnies. The study ended in 1933 with the First Lauritzen and 1937 with the Second State Examination. In 1936, he became the Dr. jur. doctorate. In the era of National Socialism Lauritzen was in Berlin from 1937 to 1945, first as a legal adviser and then as head of department at the Reich Office for chemical industries worldwide, which had within its area of responsibility to monitor the movement of goods and settle. The line was incumbent Claus storm († 1946 in Russia), in his capacity as Reich Commissioner for chemistry. During this time, Lauritzen was not a member of the Nazi Party, but by 1934 and 1938 a member of the Mounted SA. He also belonged to the Nazi Rechtswahrerbund and the Nazi People's Welfare.
After the end of World War II Lauritzen worked as a consultant in the Municipality of the city of Berlin, then in the district office Rendsburg in 1945. Also 1945 - - In the former province of Schleswig- Holstein, which was in the British occupation zone, Lauritzen was appointed Head of the Presidential Chancellery of the President of Upper Steltzer. From 1946 to 1950, the country director in the Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig- Holstein. From 1953 to 1954 he was Deputy Director General, Ministry of the Interior of Lower Saxony.
Party
From 1955 to 1963 he was a member of the SPD district board Hessen- Nord. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the SPD state Board of Schleswig -Holstein. In November 1973 he was nominated for the top candidates for the state election in 1975. After his resignation as Minister but he resigned his candidacy.
Member of Parliament
From 1969 until his death in 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag.
Lauritz Lauritzen 1972 is otherwise always drawn as directly elected representative of the constituency Plön and over the national list Schleswig-Holstein in the Bundestag.
Public offices
From 1954 to 1963 he was mayor of Kassel. From 1963 to 1966 he was then in the files kept by Prime Minister Georg August Zinn state government Hessian Minister of Justice and Federal Affairs.
With the formation of the grand coalition, he was appointed on 1 December 1966 as Federal Minister for Housing and Urban Development in the led by Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger federal government. After the general election in 1969, he held that office under Chancellor Willy Brandt, but under the new name of the German Federal Ministry for Urban Development and Housing. On 7 July 1972 he was also appointed Minister of Transport and the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications appointed. Under him the urban development law has emerged from 1971 and the Tenant Protection Act was reformed. After the general election in 1972, he kept from December 15, 1972, only the Office of the Federal Minister of Transport. As Transport Minister he sat down in 1972 successfully for a speed limit of 100 km / h on country roads a, against the resistance of the ADAC. Because of the oil crisis operation Lauritzen also the introduction of a speed limit (100 km / h) on motorways in November 1973. According to a campaign by the ADAC and the Bild newspaper, the person was also directed against Lauritzen, the Federal Council raised the speed limit on motorways in March 1974 again.
With the resignation of Willy Brandt Lauritzen retired from the Federal Government on 7 May 1974.
His final resting place he found in the forest cemetery of his last residence Rhöndorf, near the family tomb of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.