Philipp Jenninger
Philipp- Hariolf Jenninger ( born June 10, 1932 in Rindelbach / Jagst ) is a German politician ( CDU). He was from 1982 to 1984 Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and 1984-1988 President of the German Bundestag.
Life and career
Jenninger comes from a Catholic and close to the center home. His father, a printer master was, therefore harassed frequently during the time of National Socialism. His brothers Albert and William fell in the Second World War. His brother Alfred (* March 3, 1921, † 24 May 2007) was a colonel in the air land and air transportation School in Old town in Upper Bavaria.
After graduation in 1952 at the Peutinger school Ellwangen Jenninger graduated in Law and Political Science at the Eberhard -Karls- University Tübingen, which he finished in 1955 with the first in 1959 with the second legal state examination. He is a member of K.D.St.V. Staufia Bonn in CV. Already in 1958 his Doctorate in Law. with the work The need to reform the Federal Constitutional Court. In 1960 he resigned as head of department in the service of Wehrbereichsverwaltung V in Stuttgart. In 1963, he joined as a lecturer in the Federal Ministry of Defence and in 1964 personal and Press Secretary to the Federal Minister for Affairs of the Federal Defence Council Heinrich Krone. After the dissolution of the Ministry from 1966 to 1969 he was political advisor to the Federal Minister of Finance Franz Josef Strauss. Philipp Jenninger was a member of the Presidium of the study center Weikersheim.
Philipp Jenninger is married and lives with his wife in Stuttgart.
MP and Minister
From 1969 to 1990 Jenninger was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was on 19 September 1973 to 4 October 1982 First Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.
Jenninger was directly elected member of the Bundestag until 1976 the constituency Crailsheim and then the constituency of Schwäbisch Hall. He reached in the general election in 1983 in the constituency of Schwäbisch Hall- Hohenlohe with 58.5 % of the primary vote his highest result.
1976 ensured allegations against Jenninger the environment of an exhibition of the political left related graphic artist Klaus Staeck in the Parliamentary Association for press reports. In the exhibition were to be seen, among other things, a number polemically directed against the Union and some of its leaders posters. Jenninger, then parliamentary secretary of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, and some party colleagues protested against it on the spot. It also posters were taken and torn from the wall. Staeck sued Jenninger. It issued a court order for the payment of ten marks for damages plus interest against Jenninger. This as " Bonner iconoclasm " dubbed incident was later used repeatedly against Jenninger.
Jenninger was appointed Minister of State at the Chancellery on 4 October 1982, to make the special order policy towards Germany.
President of the German Bundestag
On November 5, 1984 Jenninger was elected after the resignation of Rainer Barzel President of the German Bundestag.
He paid particular attention to relations with the parliaments of the countries of the Warsaw Pact, which takes place in these countries political change. There were dialogues, sometimes mutual visits, with parliamentarians from Poland, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the GDR. Jenninger enjoyed at times even with the opposition parties, the SPD and the Greens high reputation and was re-elected after the election in 1987 with a large majority. In Jenningers tenure and the decision on the demolition and reconstruction of the Plenargebäudes the Bundestag falls.
His speech on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, regarded by the public as " Unsuccessful memory ", created a scandal and led to his immediate resignation from the office of President of the Bundestag. Jenninger wanted in his speech to the audience near bring the worldview and emotional state of the perpetrators and the idle witnesses and make the political climate to understand where it could come to the " Kristallnacht ". This was done by Jenningers information on the initiative of the former chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Werner Nachman, the opposite expounded to him that he could hear of young people in Germany and over again, they would get no answer to the question of how it " came to Hitler" actually be.
Jenninger made in his speech that was initially bothered by heckling from the Group of the Greens, often of the stylistic devices of direct and experienced speech use and used it partly diction and vocabulary of Nazi propaganda to illustrate the then widespread patterns of thought. It was not always easy for listeners to tell them apart Jenningers own reasoning and the Nazi jargon that is used in various quote forms. Therefore deputies of the countryside, SPD and FDP left the plenary hall during the speech nor in protest. The media coverage in Germany, in which it came to misquotes and unacceptable shortening was devastating. Under this impression Jenninger has already appeared on the following day back from the office of President of the Bundestag.
As a result Jenningers speech text was largely rehabilitated, among other things, that the later Chairman of the Central Council of Jews Ignatz Bubis pointedly controversial passages from Jenningers speech took over in its own speech, without this being scandalous. Was further criticized the nature of the presentation of the speech, the Jenninger claims to had "not rehearsed ," and is considered failed. Willy Brandt, said that the speech was " failed, not because Jenninger is a bad guy, but because he has overreached himself. "
In linguistics, the speech is used today to show the extent to which language influences the content and what is understood to be transported content.
In the 1990 Bundestag election Jenninger did not run.
Other public offices
From 1991 to 1995 Jenninger Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany and in Austria from 1995 to 1997 was ambassador to the Holy See.
Philipp Jenninger from 1985 to 1990 Chairman of the German Council of the European Movement and is now its Honorary President.
Awards (excerpt)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1986 )
- Grand Cross of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986 )
Cabinets
- Cabinet Kohl I, II Cabinet carbon