Alexander Longolius
Alexander Longolius (born December 30, 1935 in Berlin ; † January 31, 2016 ) was a German politician ( SPD ).
Life
Longolius was an exchange student in the USA in 1952/53 as a participant in AFS Intercultural Encounters and graduated from high school in Berlin in 1954. He studied political science, history and English at the German University of Politics and at the Free University of Berlin . From 1958 to 1976 he worked in the school service. From 1967 to 1970 he was in charge of the visitor service at the Bundeshaus Berlin . From 1970 to 1973 he was director of the Volkshochschule Berlin-Schöneberg and then from 1973 to 1988 he was head of the department for political education at the Federal Government's representative in Berlin (department for internal German relations). In 1988 he became the managing director of the "Initiative Berlin - USA eV", a private association he founded to promote German-American relations .
politics
Alexander Longolius joined the SPD in 1963 and was involved in the Charlottenburg district . From 1973 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin State Board . In the Berlin election in 1975 he was first elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1988. In the 1990 election he returned to the House of Representatives for an electoral term, but left parliament for good in 1995. During his membership in parliament he held various functions. In 1981 he was brief chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and then until 1985 Vice-President of the House of Representatives.
Act
In 1983 Alexander Longolius founded the Partnership of Parliaments (PdP) together with other MPs in San Francisco , which he chaired for ten years. The partnership of parliaments honored him in 2011 with the Carl Schurz badge. He was co-founder and until 2014 chairman of the board of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation and the Berlin - USA eV initiative with the Brücke der Jugend . He was a long-time member of the European Academy Berlin and a member of the Federal Board of Trustees of the International Federation (IB) .
In 2005 Longolius was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
literature
- Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 246 f.
- Alexander Longolius , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 08/1990 from February 12, 1990, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigrid Kneist: Alexander Longolius is dead , Tagesspiegel, January 31, 2016
- ^ Obituary notice (print edition February 7, 2016, p. 19). Der Tagesspiegel , February 7, 2016, accessed on February 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Obituaries of Alexander Longolius , Tagesspiegel, accessed on February 12, 2016
- ↑ Longolius: Wowereit presented the former Vice-President of the House of Representatives with the Federal Cross of Merit. Press release. Landesarchiv Berlin, November 2, 2005, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2020 .
Franz Neumann (1951–1958) | Alexander Voelker (1958–1973) | Wolfgang Haus (1973–1977) | Franz Ehrke (1977–1981) | Klaus Riebschläger (1981) | Alexander Longolius (1981) | Hans-Jochen Vogel (1981–1983) | Peter Ulrich (1983–1985) | Walter Momper (1985–1989) | Ditmar Staffelt (1989–1994) | Klaus Böger (1994–1999) | Klaus Wowereit (1999–2001) | Michael Müller (2001–2011) | Raed Saleh (since 2011)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Longolius, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 2016 |