Richard Jaeger
 Richard Jaeger    ( politician) | ||||||||||||
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 Richard Jaeger (left) and the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany Karl Carstens (right). | ||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1913 | |||||||||||
| Died | 15 May 1998 (Age 85) | |||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Maximiliansgymnasium • University of Munich • University of Berlin • University of Bonn | |||||||||||
| Religion |  Catholic | |||||||||||
| Member of | European Documentation and Information Centre, German Atlantic Society | |||||||||||
| Party | Christian Social Union of Bavaria | |||||||||||
Bavarian politician who attended the 1957 Bilderberg meeting, the same year he became President of the German Atlantic Society, sitting until 1990.
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Richard Jaeger was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He attended the 1957 Bilderberg meeting, the same year he became President of the German Atlantic Society, sitting until 1990.
Background
Jaeger was born as the son of Heinz and Elsbeth Jaeger in Schöneberg in 1913.[1] His father was an employee of the Reich Insurance Office and later director of the Municipal Insurance Office in Munich. The family moved back to Munich three months after Jaeger was born.
His great-grandfather was the Bavarian member of the state parliament Lukas Jäger, his grandfather the Lieutenant Colonel Richard Jaeger and his great-uncle the Reichstag member Eugen Jäger.
Education
From 1928 he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium, where he graduated from high school in 1933. On November 1 of the same year, Jaeger joined the SA[2] and began, among other things with Ernst Ferber (after the war Gehlen Organization and Bundeswehr), a study of law and political science in Munich, Berlin and Bonn, which he completed with the legal clerkship exam in 1936. In Munich he became an active member of the Catholic Student Association Südmark. After his legal clerkship, he passed the Major State Examination in Law in 1939.[1]
His military service in the Second World War, including as an artilleryman on the Eastern Front, was interrupted by his appointment as a court assessor at the Weilheim District Court in Upper Bavaria in 1940 and his appointment to the District Court Council in 1943 - a curious thing considering the lack of soldiers.[1]
In 1948 he took a doctorate in law.
Career
From 1946 Jaeger was a member of the CSU and from 1952 to 1981 a member of the CSU state board. Jaeger was the first mayor in 1948 and the Lord Mayor of Eichstätt in 1949.[1]
Jaeger was a member of the German Bundestag from 1949 to 1980. Jaeger was one of the ten members of Parliament who continuously belonged to the Bundestag for the first 25 years since the 1949 federal election.
He was chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Constitution from 1952 to 1953 and chairman of the Defense Committee from 1953 to 1961. He was Vice-President of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1965 and from 1967 to 1976, interrupted by his time as Federal Minister. From 1953 to 1956 he was chairman of the Budget subcommittee of the Bundestag Presidium.[1]
In 1951, at a rally in Landsberg, Jaeger spoke out in favor of pardoning all Nazi war criminals sentenced to death.
From 10 December 1953 to 1 July 1954 he was also a member of the European Parliament. From 1957 to 1990 he was chairman of the German Atlantic Society.[1]
After the 1965 federal elections, he was appointed Federal Minister of Justice in the federal government led by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard on 26 October 1965. After the break of the coalition with the FDP and the subsequent formation of a grand coalition, Jaeger resigned from the federal government on December 1, 1966.[1]
In the 1960s, he publicly advocated the reintroduction of the death penalty for murder and other capital crimes.[3]
In 1972, he was one of the few CDU/CSU deputies who voted against the Eastern Treaties (the Moscow Treaty and the Warsaw Treaty), while the majority of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group only abstained and thus secured ratification.
At the beginning of the fifties, Jaeger became involved in the Occidental Movement, which was formed around the magazine Neues Abendland, financed by the Princely House of Waldburg-Zeil. This commitment eventually led him to the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI), in which he actively participated from the beginning of the sixties and whose presidency he took over from 1972 to 1974.
Marriage
Jaeger was married to the philologist Rose Littner (1915-1994); they had six children.[1] Jaeger was Catholic.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1957 October | 4 October 1957 | 6 October 1957 | Italy Fiuggi | The 6th Bilderberg meeting, the latest ever in the year and the first one in Italy. |
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h https://books.google.de/books?id=rt6SIMzeOFYC&lpg=PR1&hl=de&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q=jaeger&f=false
- ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/mediathek/?contentArea=common&isLinkCallPlenar=1&categorie=Plenarsitzung&action=search&instance=m187&mask=search&ids=2002314
- ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2011/05/Landsberg-Antisemitismus/komplettansicht
