Alexander Voelker (politician)

Alexander Voelker (born August 1, 1913 in Berlin-Neukölln ; † February 24, 2001 in Berlin ) was a Berlin SPD politician.

Life

Alexander Voelker joined the SPD in 1931 at the age of 17. After finishing school, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. After the Second World War he worked for Bewag .

In 1946 Voelker became district chairman of the SPD in Tempelhof . In the same year he was elected to the district assembly of the Tempelhof district.

Honorary grave of Alexander Voelker in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

As early as 1948 he was elected to the Berlin city council and in 1950 to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged continuously until 1979. From 1958 to 1973 Voelker was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. He was also a member of the SPD party council from 1959 to 1962 .

Alexander Voelker died in February 2001 at the age of 87 in Berlin. The funeral took place in silence at the request of the deceased. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 8-B-42).

Honors

Voelker was awarded the Ernst Reuter plaque in 1973 and the title of City Elder of Berlin in 1980 .

The final resting place of Alexander Voelker in the Heerstraße cemetery is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave .

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 267 (331 pages).

Web links

Commons : Alexander Voelker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

SPD Berlin - short biography

Individual evidence

↑ The family's obituary in the Berlin Tagesspiegel from March 4, 2001.
^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.
↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 101. Retrieved on November 27, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Voelker, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Neukölln
DATE OF DEATH	February 24, 2001
Place of death	Berlin-Neukölln

[1] The family's obituary in the Berlin Tagesspiegel from March 4, 2001.

[2] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.

[3] Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 101. Retrieved on November 27, 2019.