Everything about Gustav Heinemann totally explained
Gustav Walter Heinemann, GCB (
July 23,
1899 -
July 7,
1976) was a
German politician. He was Minister of Interior Affairs from
1949 to
1950, Minister of Justice from
1966 to
1969 and
President of Germany from
1969 to
1974. He was famous for being open-minded with respect to the student protests of
1968, and he tried to keep his office as down-to-earth as possible (for example when asked whether he loved Germany, he answered that he loved his wife).
In the
Weimar Republic Heinemann was member of the
Christian Social People's Service (CSVD). After World War II he was one of the founders of the
CDU and became mayor of the city of
Essen. He was Minister of the Interior in the first cabinet of
Konrad Adenauer. In
1950 he left the cabinet and the CDU in
1952 to form the
All-German People's Party (GVP) with
Helene Wessel and other CDU- and
Center Party members. In
1957 he, and most GVP members, joined the
SPD. In the grand coalition (1966-69) he was Minister of Justice.
In
1969 he became the first SPD member to be elected President of Germany.
His daughter
Uta Ranke-Heinemann ran for the German presidency unsuccessfully in
1999. The president who was elected that year (
Johannes Rau) was the husband of Heinemann's granddaughter (Uta Ranke-Heinmann's niece)
Christina Delius.
The
Gustav-Heinemann-Friedenspreis (Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize) is every year awarded to a book judged to have best promoted the cause of world peace.
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