Background
DOLLINGER, Werner was born on October 10, 1918 in Neustadt/Aiseh. Son of Richard and Lisette (nee Hosch) Dollinger.
DOLLINGER, Werner was born on October 10, 1918 in Neustadt/Aiseh. Son of Richard and Lisette (nee Hosch) Dollinger.
Born in Neustadt an der Aisch in Middle Franconia, Dollinger studied economics and social sciences in Nuremberg, at the Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Technische Universität München. He obtained a Master of Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) degree in 1940 and two years later gained his doctorate.
He served as Federal Minister for the Treasury from 1962 to 1966, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation in 1966, Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications from 1966 to 1969, and as Federal Minister of Transport from 1982 to 1987. From 1943 to 1945, Dollinger served in the Wehrmacht armed forces during World World War World War II Back in his hometown after the war, he joined his father-in-law"s brickyard business. He became chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce in 1948 and of the Middle Franconian clay industry association in 1952.
He was elected city councillor and deputy in the district assembly.
He also acted as Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) district chairman from 1951 to 1972, as a councillor in the party"s district committee, and joined the state executive in 1957. At the 1953 federal elections, Dollinger was elected to the West German Bundestag parliament.
He joined the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) group executive committee, became vice chairman in 1957 and head of the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) regional group in 1961. Re-elected several times, he remained a Bundestag Member of Parliament until 1990.
In 1956 he also joined the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community.
On 14 December 1962 Dollinger was appointed Federal Minister for the Treasury in the last cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, an office he retained under Adenauer"s successor Ludwig Erhard. He lost his office when Willy Brandt formed the social–liberal coalition after the 1969 federal elections. 13 years later, Dollinger once again entered the Federal Government, when he was appointed Federal Minister of Transport in the cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 4 October 1982.
He finally retired after the 1987 elections.
He died at his home in Neustadt an der Aisch.
In 1946 Dollinger was one of the founding members of the Christian Social Union branch in Neustadt an der Aisch. In the succeeding grand coalition cabinet of Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Dollinger was appointed Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications.
Of Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) and Neustadt Town Councillor since 1946. Bundestag and Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) Parliament, group since 1953. ECSC Common Assembly 1956-1958.
Married Herta Dehn in 1945.