SPD social politician
Rudolf Dreßler died at the age of 84
Rudolf Dreßler sat in the Bundestag for 20 years. Now the former SPD politician and German ambassador to Israel has died. One striking sentence in particular remains in my memory.
The former SPD politician and German ambassador to Israel, Rudolf Dreßler, is dead. Dreßler died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD announced on Thursday in Düsseldorf. The social politician sat in the Bundestag for 20 years and was German ambassador to Israel from 2000 to 2005.
Dreßler created the statement that Israel’s secure existence was part of Germany’s raison d’état. He wrote the words in a 2005 article for the Federal Agency for Civic Education – and in a speech to the Israeli parliament in 2008, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) used this formulation.
Dreßler with a long SPD history
Before serving as ambassador to Israel, the trained typesetter from Wuppertal was briefly Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor in 1982. Dreßler was also deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group for 13 years and, from 1984, a member of the SPD federal executive board for a total of 16 years.
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Source: Stern
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