Rudi Pawelka

Rudolf Pawelka ( born March 24, 1940 in Breslau) is a German politician (CDU) and 2000-2013 successor of Herbert Hupka as national chairman of the homeland Silesia. On 5 October 2013, was voted at a special Federal Assembly of Delegates in Dusseldorf as National Chairman.

He is Speaker of the German forced laborers ( AKDZ ) and was until 2013 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Silesian Museum in Görlitz.

Pawelka is Chief of Police A.D. He was at the beginning of the 1970s Second National Chairman of the former CSU circles of friends and is a member of the CDU since 1971. Pawelka from 1975 to 1990 President of the local branch of the CDU - Leverkusen -Rhine village. From 1990 to 1994 and from 2004 to 2009 he was alderman in Leverkusen. Pawelka 2009 ran unsuccessfully for the City Council.

From 2001 to 2005 Pawelka was chairman of the Prussian Trust.

Pawelka held several times speeches that were perceived as " anti-Polish ". Designs of a held by him on the Germany meeting of the displaced Association 2013 speech had provided in advance for displeasure, so that the Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD ) and the President of the Parliament Bernd Busemann ( CDU) had been two days earlier canceled their participation. They justified this with content in the speech manuscript, which she cited but not detailed. In addition, the President of the Federal Assembly of Delegates Michael Pietsch (CDU ) resigned. Pawelka himself stated that he could not understand what was objectionable in his speech. He had called in the controversial speech an apology from Poland and the Czech Republic for the expulsion and a "one-sided [e ] reconciliation" criticized. In addition, he had repeatedly spoken of a " will of reconciliation," described it, however, as " a lie, Silesia as reclaimed [ Polish ] territories" to refer to and quoted the former U.S. President George W. Bush, the expulsion of the Germans " had called the biggest cultural extermination of world history. "

Pawelka is widowed and has a son and two daughters. Since 1961 he lives in Leverkusen.