Bernd Seidel (politician)
Bernd Seidel (born March 23, 1949 in Burgstädt ) is a former German politician ( SED ). From 1986 to 1989 he was Lord Mayor of Leipzig .
Life
The son of a working-class family learned the profession of a lathe operator after attending elementary and secondary school at VEB Germania Karl-Marx-Stadt . In 1963 he became a member of the FDJ and in 1967 began studying physics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he graduated in 1971 with a degree in physics . In 1974 Seidel was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1974 to 1975 he worked as a research assistant at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and became a member of the SED in 1976. From 1976 to 1977 he worked as a research assistant and from 1977 to 1978 as head of department at VEB Maschinenbauhandel Leipzig.
From 1979 he was active in local politics. He was first elected first deputy chairman of the council of the Leipzig-Mitte district and in the same year as the district mayor of Leipzig-Mitte. From 1981 to 1982 Seidel studied in Moscow at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU . From February 16, 1984 he was elected First Deputy Mayor Karl-Heinz Müller by the Leipzig City Council.
On January 20, 1986, Seidel succeeded the retired Müller in the office of Mayor of Leipzig. On January 18, 1986 he was elected a member of the secretariat of the SED city leadership in Leipzig and on February 16, 1986 a member of the SED district leadership in Leipzig.
During his tenure, city partnerships were concluded with Hanover (1987) and Nanking (1988). In the days of the collapse of the GDR on November 3, 1989, Seidel resigned because of the loss of confidence among the citizens. In January 1990 he was arrested on suspicion of fraud in the local elections in May 1989 and in June 1990 he was tried with Horst Schumann and Joachim Prag . On September 27, 1990, the 2nd Senate of the Leipzig District Court sentenced those responsible in the city for the election fraud on May 7, 1989 to suspended sentences and thus lifted the prison sentences of the Leipzig District Court against Joachim Prag and Bernd Seidel. The Senate made use of the possibility of an extraordinary reduction in punishment because the accused was under enormous psychological pressure during their act.
After German reunification, Seidel was the managing director of a Leipzig construction company.
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 298.
- Karin Kühling / Doris Mundus: Leipzig's ruling mayors from the 13th century to the present. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2000. ISBN 3-934544-02-9 .
- Andreas Herbst : Seidel, Bernd . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung from February 17, 1984
- ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 20 and February 17, 1986
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 20, 1990, p. 2.
- ↑ Chronicle 1990 of the city of Leipzig
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seidel, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burgstädt |