Alfred Balcke

Alfred Balcke (born April 23, 1894 in Bremen , † March 14, 1972 in Bremen) was a German politician and senator (SPD) in Bremen.

biography

education and profession

Balcke attended the Bremen teacher training college before he was called up for military service in 1914. In Gdansk, he studied economics for a semester in 1918, after which he was a correspondent in Hanover and Bremen and a financial accountant in a Bremen import and export company.

Balcke joined Schröder-Bank in Bremen in 1923 , from 1931 Norddeutsche Kreditbank , and was employed there until he was appointed Senator in 1955. He learned the profession of a bank clerk , a term used to describe a bank clerk at private banks at the time , and then worked in this profession, most recently as an authorized signatory.

politics

Balcke was a member of the SPD in Bremen. He was elected to Bremen's citizenship from 1946 to 1955 .

In 1955 he was appointed to the Senate under the leadership of Wilhelm Kaisen (SPD), in which he was appointed Senator for Construction as the successor to Emil Theil (SPD). His work is linked to the reconstruction of Bremen. During his time there was decisive housing construction, above all in the area of social housing for the lower-middle-class. The district of Bremen west was completed and u. a. the district Neue Vahr and the garden city Vahr were built. As early as 1963 he advocated the creation of “a second public park” as a park on the left of the Weser . In 1963 Wilhelm Blase (SPD) took over the responsibility of the building senator.

Balcke was married to Margarete Balcke, b. Albers (1898-1971). He was buried in the Buntentorsfriedhof in Bremen- Neustadt (Bremen) .

Honors

The Senator-Balcke-Strasse in Obervieland / habenhausen was named after him.

literature

Bremen Citizenship Handbook
Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ It was considered the motor of housing construction - Senator a. D. Alfred Balcke died at the age of 78, Weser-Kurier from March 15, 1972, p. 10, online only for subscribers

personal data
SURNAME	Balcke, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Bremen Senator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1972
Place of death	Bremen

[1] It was considered the motor of housing construction - Senator a. D. Alfred Balcke died at the age of 78, Weser-Kurier from March 15, 1972, p. 10, online only for subscribers