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Rudolf Seiters

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Rudolf Seiters

Bundesminister a. D.

Seiters in 1989

Vice President of the Bundestag
(on proposal of the CDU/CSU-group)

In office
26 October 1998 – 17 October 2002

President

Wolfgang Thierse

Preceded by

Michaela Geiger

Succeeded by

Norbert Lammert

Minister of the Interior

In office
26 November 1991 – 7 July 1993

Preceded by

Wolfgang Schäuble

Succeeded by

Manfred Kanther

Head of the Chancellery
Minister for Special Affairs

In office
21 April 1989 – 25 November 1991

Chancellor

Helmut Kohl

Preceded by

Wolfgang Schäuble

Succeeded by

Friedrich Bohl

Chief Whip of the CDU/CSU group
in the Bundestag

In office
15 November 1984 – 21 May 1989

Leader

Wolfgang Schäuble

Preceded by

Wolfgang Schäuble

Succeeded by

Friedrich Bohl

Whip of the CDU/CSU group
in the Bundestag

In office
14 October 1982 – 15 November 1984

Serving with Wolfgang Bötsch, Agnes Hürland-Büning

Leader

Alfred Dregger

Chief Whip

Wolfgang Schäuble

Preceded by

Wolfgang Schäuble
Wilhelm Rawe
Dorothee Wilms

Succeeded by

Friedrich Bohl

In office
9 November 1971 – 14 December 1976

Serving with Josef Rösing, Leo Wagner, Olaf Baron von Wrangel, Paul Röhner, Gerhard Reddemann, Paul Mikat, Philipp Jenninger

Leader

Karl Carstens
Helmut Kohl

Preceded by

Will Rasner

Succeeded by

Walter Wallmann

Member of the Bundestag
for Unterems
(Emsland; 1969–1980)

In office
20 October 1969 – 17 October 2002

Preceded by

Josef Stecker

Succeeded by

Gitta Connemann

Personal details

Born

(1937-10-13) 13 October 1937 (age 86)
Osnabrück, Province of Hanover, Prussia, Nazi Germany (now Germany)

Political party

Christian Democratic Union (1958–)

Children

Residence

Papenburg

Alma mater

University of Münster

Occupation

Politician

Lawyer

Civil Servant

Rudolf Seiters (born 13 October 1937 in Osnabrück) is a German politician of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party.

From 1989–1991, he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs and the head of the Office of the German Chancellery. From 1991–1993, he was the Minister of the Interior. From 1998–2002, he was the Vice President of the German Bundestag, or Parliament. Since 2003, he has been the president of the German Red Cross.

Life and jobs[edit]

After graduating from the Gymnasium Carolinium in Osnabrück in 1959, Seiters graduated from the University of Münster with a degree in Jurisprudence, finishing his first examinations (roughly equivalent to bachelor's degree) in 1963, and his second examination (professional degree) in 1967. From 1968 to 1969, he was a legal assistant in the office of the Osnabrück Department of the Economy and Social Housing. Since November 2003, he has been the president of the German Red Cross.

He is married with three daughters and lives in Papenburg. In 2000, he was given an honorary doctorate from the Bundeswehr University Munich.

Party[edit]

Since 1958, he has been a member of the CDU. From 1963 until 1965, he was the Borough-president of the Osnabrück-Emsland chapter of the CDU youth organization Junge Union. Then, from 1965 to 1968, he was the president of the state chapter in Hannover and 1968–1971 of the newly founded Lower Saxony chapter. From 1967–1971, he was furthermore a member of the Federal Executive Board of the Junge Union and then from 1971–1973 a member of the Federal Managing Board of the CDU itself. From 1972 to 1998, he was deputy secretary of the CDU in Lower Saxony and from 1992–1998 also a member of the CDU National Executive Committee.

As a representative[edit]

From 1969–2002, Seiters was a member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag. Ih the years 1971–1976 and 1982–1984, he served as an executive officer (Geschäftsführer) of the CDU/CSU parliamentary fraction. From 1984 to 1989, he was the party fraction's Head Executive Officer. After the 1994 elections, he became the deputy chair of the fraction, a position he retained until 1998 when he became Vice President of the Bundestag.

Prague embassy negotiations[edit]

In 1989, thousands of East Germans took refuge the Prague embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Rudolf Seiters successfully negotiated with the East German government (DDR) the passage of the embassy refugees to the Federal Republic of Germany.^[1]