Bernd Holtfreter

Bernd Holtfreter (born April 29, 1951 in Rostock ; † May 4, 2003 ) was a German politician in Berlin .

Life

Holtfreter did an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and then worked in the GDR as a projectionist, theater dresser and surveyor's assistant. From 1985 he became involved in his East Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the residential district committee 56 of the National Front (WBA). Thanks to his agility, numerous neighborhood residents moved with him when he complained about the need for maintenance to the state house owners, socially vulnerable families were looked after and backyards were planted for self-help. The residents' initiatives came together in the Hirschhof . As one of the election workers provided by the WBA, he registered the election fraud by the SED leadership in the East Berlin local elections in the spring of 1989 , in which two free WBA candidates had been put up, from whom Matthias Klipp was elected. Before and after the political change, he campaigned for the preservation of the historic building and residential structure. The slogan We All Stay (WBA) came from him.

politics

Holtfreter was a political pragmatist and stood for election on the PDS's open list after the political change . He was directly elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1995, 1999 and 2001 .

literature

• Bernd Holtfreter in: Barbara Felsmann, Annett Gröschner (eds.), Prenzlauer Berg passage room, A Berlin artist's social history of the 1970s and 1980s in self-reports , Berlin 1999, pp. 125-136
• Christian Booss: Stories from Prenzlauer Berg - Der Kiezfürst , in: taz , May 5, 2014, p. 5

Web links

• Bernd Holfreter at the PDS ( Memento from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Obituary in sham strike
• Obituary in tenant echo