Rudi Pawelka is a German
politician
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, representative of the
German Christian Democratic Union.
Born on 24 March 1940, in
Breslau,
Silesia
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, Pawelka is an important
German
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politician of the
CDU. He is also the spokesman of the former German forced laborers (''Arbeitskreises Deutsche Zwangsarbeiter'' or AKDZ) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Silesian Museum in
Görlitz.
Pawelka was a Chief Police Director official. From 1971 was the second National chairman of the "Friends of former CSU" and is currently an active member of the
CDU. Between 1975 and 1990 he was chairman of the CDU branch in Leverkusen-Rheindorf. From 1990 to 1994, and again from 2004 to 2009 he was a councilor in
Leverkusen
Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf.
With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is o ...
.
In 2000 he succeeded
Herbert Hupka as federal chairman of the
Landsmannschaft Schlesien The Landsmannschaft Schlesien - Nieder- und Oberschlesien e.V. ("Territorial Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia", "Homeland Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia") is an organization of Germans born in the former Prussian pr ...
. From 2001 to 2005 Pawelka was chairman of the
Prussian Trust __NOTOC__
The Prussian Trust, or Prussian Claims Society, (german: Preußische Treuhand GmbH & Co. KGaA) is a corporation registered in Düsseldorf, founded in 2000 as ''Preußische Treuhand GmbH'' by some descendants of Expulsion of Germans after W ...
. In 2003, as a head of the Prussian Trust, he angered Jewish groups and caused outrage in Poland, which has long feared that some of the 12 million expelled in 1945 or their descendants would return to claim their properties.
[Kate Connoll]
Jewish fury at property claims by expelled Germans
The Telegraph. 7 Oct 2003
Pawelka is widowed and has one son and two daughters. Since 1961 he has resided in
Leverkusen
Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf.
With about 161,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is o ...
in the
Rhineland
The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Term
Historically, the Rhinelands ...
.
See also
*
List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians
References
External links
Leverkusen who's whoChristlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands web site
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
1940 births
Living people
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