Lutz Stavenhangen | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1972–1992 | |
| Minister of State at the Foreign Office | |
| In office 1985–1987 | |
| Preceded by | Alois Mertes |
| Succeeded by | Irmgard Schwaetzer |
| Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery | |
| In office 1987–1991 | |
| Commissioner for the Federal Intelligence Services | |
| In office 3 May 1989[1] – 2 December 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Waldemar Schreckenberger |
| Succeeded by | Bernd Schmidbauer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1940-05-06)6 May 1940 |
| Died | 31 May 1992(1992-05-31) (aged 52) |
| Political party | CDU |
Lutz-Georg Stavenhagen (6 May 1940 inJena – 31 May 1992 inPforzheim) was a German politician and member of theChristian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He was Minister of State in theForeign Office from 1985 to 1987 and Minister of State in theFederal Chancellery from 1987 to 1991.
Stavenhagen attended schools inOberkirch (Baden) (1950-1951 and 1953–1954), inBarranquilla,Colombia (1951-1952),Ootacamund,India (1954-1956) and passed hisAbitur in 1959 at the Schiller-Gymnasium inOffenburg.
One of his ancestors was the composer Bernhard Stavenhagen. Lutz Stavenhagen was married since 1965 to the stepdaughter of the former managing director of the Pforzheim Knoll & Pregizer jewelry and watch factories and had two daughters.Stavenhagen's daughter Viktoria Schmid was a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg for the CDU from 2011 to 2016.[2]
Stavenhagen did his military service in theGerman Air Force and then started studying business administration and economics at theUniversity of Saarbrücken and theUniversity of Tübingen in 1960, where he graduated with a degree in business administration. In 1968, he received his doctorate with a thesis on problems of price formation on the international mineral oil market.
From 1964, Stavenhagen worked as an assistant manager for the Oest Group inFreudenstadt, and between 1967 and 1969 as personnel manager of the German branch of Hobart Maschinen GmbH of the U.S. Hobart Group inOffenburg, before becoming managing director of Knoll & Pregizer until 1972.[3]
He had been a member of the CDU since 1964 and later also belonged to the state executive committee of the Baden-Württemberg CDU.
From 1972 until his death, Stavenhagen was a member of the German Bundestag - always as a directly elected member. Most recently, he achieved 46.9% of the first-past-the-post votes in the Pforzheim constituency in the1990 Bundestag elections.
Following the sudden death of diplomat and Minister of State Alois Mertes, Stavenhagen was appointed Minister of State at the Foreign Office in the German government led byChancellorHelmut Kohl on 4 September 1985. After the1987 federal election, Stavenhagen replaced Minister of State Friedrich Vogel and served as Minister of State in the Chancellor's Office from 12 March 1987 to 3 December 1991.
In early December 1990, Stavenhagen, in his capacity as the federal government's commissioner for intelligence, submitted a four-page report "on the stay-behind organization of the Federal Intelligence Service."
As intelligence coordinator, Stavenhagen was not informed in the Federal Chancellery - contrary to the statement of formerBND PresidentHans-Georg Wieck[4] - about "assistance" toAlexander Schalck-Golodkowski from the Federal Intelligence Service "for example, by issuing a passport in the name of 'Gutmann', the maiden name of Mrs. Schalck-Golodkowski"[5][6] nor about the involvement of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, theBundeswehr and theIsraeliMossad in deliveries of armaments from the stocks of the formerNational People's Army of theGerman Democratic Republic to Israel, among others.[7]
Stavenhagen asked to be dismissed and left office on 2 December 1991.[8]
On 31 May 1992 Stavenhagen died of pneumonia at the age of 52 and was buried in Pforzheim's main cemetery.[9]
A visiting professorship was established in his honor at theRichard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at theHebrew University of Jerusalem (The Stavenhagen Guest Professorship).[10]
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