Diether Posser
Diether Posser (9 March 1922 in Essen – 9 January 2010 in Essen) was a German politician, representative of the Social Democratic Party.
Life
During his childhood in Essen he was influenced by the
Bayernpartei), and the future President Johannes Rau the pacifist All-German People's Party
, of which he was made General Secretary after the 1953 resignation of Bodensteiner.
After the party's collapse in 1957, he became a member of the SPD, for whom he joined the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1966. In 1968 he was named the Minister for Federal Affairs.[1] In 1972 he switched to the Judicial Department, before he became Finance Minister in 1978.[1] He held this position until 1988 in the second and third cabinets of President Johannes Rau.[1]
Posser was the Godfather of actor Diether Krebs.
Works
- "Rapallo, nicht Tauroggen", in Stimme der Gemeinde, Issue 4, 1954, Page 87.
- "Politik ohne Solidarität", in Gesamtdeutsche Rundschau, Issue 24, 1955.
- Anwalt im Kalten Krieg. Ein Stück deutscher Geschichte in politischen Prozessen 1951–1968. Munich: ISBN 3-570-02347-8(und weitere Auflagen).
- "Gustav Heinemann", in: Protestantische Profile. Lebensbilder aus fünf Jahrhunderten, ed. by Klaus Scholder and Dieter Kleinmann, Königstein/Ts. 1983, S.382–396.
- "Die Hauptsache ist, daß die Hauptsache die Hauptsache bleibt", in: Begegnungen mit Wilhelm Busch, ed. by Karl-Heinz Ehring and Ulrich Parzany, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, S.67–71.
See also
- List of Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
External links
- Diether Posser in the German National Library catalogue
- Diether Posser's obituary Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
References
- ^ a b c "Ehemaliger NRW-Finanzminister: Diether Posser ist tot". www.spiegel.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2020-11-01.