Bernhard Ließ

Bernhard Ließ (born September 6, 1926 in Braunschweig ; † November 5, 2011 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). Among other things, he was Lord Mayor of Braunschweig and Member of the State Parliament in Lower Saxony .

Life

youth

Bernhard Ließ was the son of the trained baker and confectioner Hermann Ließ and his wife Frida, née. Steinmeyer. He had five sisters. He spent his childhood in Braunschweig on Wiesenstrasse, the later part of his youth in the Siegfriedviertel . Already as a child he was politically influenced by his father, who, after retraining due to a war injury, worked in various professions and was chairman of the works council in an optical plant and chairman of the board of the professional association for precision mechanics and electrical engineering . In addition, his father was a long-time member of the SPD and, until his arrest by the National Socialists, Jungreichsbannerführer of the Braunschweig area.

At Easter 1933, Ließ started school in the Comeniusstrasse elementary school , which he attended until 1941. Subsequently, he completed an apprenticeship at the Braunschweig and Helmstedt teacher training institute until the end of 1943 , before he was called up to the Reich Labor Service in Uelzen . In March 1944, he was drafted as a tank grenadier to the Reserve Battalion 585 of the Wehrmacht in Hanover-Bothfeld . There he completed his basic training and was then transferred to the military training area in Bergen to receive training as a reserve officer applicant. In September 1944, Ließ had his first front-line assignment in Holland before he completed further courses and training. Finally, he returned as a flag junior to Reserve Battalion 585 in March 1945 and was employed as a group leader in a task force. He fell into American captivity , but was released shortly afterwards.

Post-war years

In the winter of 1945 he began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker , and completed the first year of his apprenticeship in just six months. From the spring of 1946, Ließ attended a newly founded secondary school in Wolfenbüttel , a successor to the teacher training institute there, in order to obtain a “normal” school leaving certificate.

In the meantime, the SPD party club in his district was in his parents' living room. The founding event of the Young Socialists on May 23, 1946 in Braunschweig prompted Ließ to join the SPD on July 24, 1946. In autumn 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Youth - The Falcons .

Working life

On April 1, 1947, Ließ was hired as a candidate for city assistant at the Braunschweig town hall and passed the first and second administrative examinations as part of his training. As city ​​secretary , he received a scholarship from the city for a two-semester course at the University of Work, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven , where he studied business administration , finance and labor law. He was then promoted to city inspector and head of department.

In 1955 he moved to the ÖTV local authority in Braunschweig as a specialist secretary .

Bernhard Ließ was chairman of several supervisory boards of municipal companies as well as a member of the advisory board of the Braunschweigische Staatsbank (later supervisory board of Nord / LB ), of Braunschweig GmbH, chairman of the board of the LVA Braunschweig and member of the advisory board of the public insurance company Braunschweig . He also founded an office for location and market research, which he ran on a freelance basis.

From 1974 to 1978 he was the association director of the Greater Braunschweig Association and from 1979 to 1983 managing director of the BTSV Eintracht Braunschweig .

Political career

After his employment with the city, Ließ joined the ÖTV trade union and was a founding member of the ÖTV youth group in the town hall. As chairman of this group, he also became a member of the works council and was ultimately elected to the Federal Youth Committee of the ÖTV.

On May 7, 1960 Ließ was elected executive chairman of the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel district committee of the DGB , an office he held until 1968.

Since 1959 Bernhard Had councilor of the city of Braunschweig and was first on 4 September 1963 as a successor to Albert Hoeft elected assistant mayor and finally on 21 October 1964 as the successor to Martha Fuchs , Mayor . After his re-election on October 23, 1968, he held the post of Lord Mayor until November 21, 1972.

In his tenure, among other things, the opening of the exhibition was " Vienna - City of work, city of art" on 2 September 1966 at the Brunswick Town Hall and the reception of the champion team of Eintracht Braunschweig in the evening of June 3, 1967 in the Dornse of Old Town City Hall . After the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact states in the course of the Prague Spring , Bernhard Ließ, as mayor, called for traffic to be suspended for three minutes; The following call was published in the Braunschweiger Zeitung on August 23, 1968: “Traffic quiet for 3 minutes. Lord Mayor Bernhard Ließ calls on the Braunschweig population on this Friday, from 12 p.m. to 12:03 p.m., to an absolute quiet in traffic. Braunschweig wants to document its solidarity with the Czechoslovak people in their struggle for democracy and freedom. "

During his tenure as Lord Mayor of the City of Braunschweig, he was also the founder and chairman of the Working Group of Lower Saxony Mayors and Vice President of the Lower Saxony City Council .

On June 14, 1970, Ließ was elected as a Braunschweig member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the 7th electoral period , of which he was a member from June 21, 1970 to March 20, 1974. On February 7, 1974, he was elected director of the Greater Braunschweig Association.

As a retiree , Bernhard Ließ has been active as chairman of the SPD 60 plus working group since it was founded in 1994, and was re-elected to the board of directors in the Braunschweig SPD sub-district on March 19, 2008. For reasons of age, he resigned his functions in February 2010 and was elected honorary chairman of the AG.

Others

In 1949, at a SPD rally in Braunschweig's town hall, he met his future wife, whom he married in 1952. In 1953 and 1954 his two daughters were born.

He was a member of the Federal Assembly in 1969, at which Gustav Heinemann was elected Federal President . He was also a member of the German-Norwegian Friendship Society and the German-Israeli Society , of which he was also a member of the Presidium.

literature

• Barbara Simon (arr.): MPs in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual . Ed .: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Hannover 1996, DNB  949017256 , p. 236 .
• Gundolf Algermissen: Bernhard Ließ: No stormy and stressful years . In: Social Democratic Party of Germany, Braunschweig district (Hrsg.): Dig where you are. SPD members from the Braunschweig district remember the time between 1945 and 1990 . Braunschweig 2009.

Web links

• Biographical data from / about Bernhard Ließ. Conversation protocols. (PDF) Retrieved May 11, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Braunschweig's ex-Mayor Ließ has died
2. ↑ Sonja Jänig, Sarah Wiegand: It's the small successes that count . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . September 17, 2005, p. 31 (Quote: "'The Siegfriedviertel also has proud sons', [...] names names like Bernhard Ließ, the former Lord Mayor of Braunschweig, or the entrepreneur Richard Hartwig. Both grew up in the Siegfriedviertel.").
3. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “7. May 1960: Election of councilor Bernhard Ließ as executive chairman of the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel district committee of the German Federation of Trade Unions " 
4. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “26. March 1968: The Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel district in the German Trade Union Federation elects Bernhard Ließ to succeed the previous chairman and mayor [...] " 
5. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “4. September 1963: Election of Bernhard Ließ as 2nd Mayor [...] " 
6. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “21. October 1964: Council meeting: Bernhard Ließ (SPD) elected Lord Mayor [...] [...] " 
7. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “23. October 1968: [...] Re-election of Bernhard Ließ (SPD) as Lord Mayor [...] " 
8. ^ History - Braunschweig's Lord Mayor and City Directors. (No longer available online.) In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, archived from the original on November 16, 2008 ; accessed on December 5, 2008 : “21. October 1964 - November 21, 1972: Bernhard Ließ (SPD) “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Vienna in retrospect - September 1966. In: wien.at. City of Vienna, accessed on December 5, 2008 : "[...] Vienna and Braunschweig were exhibition neighbors at the IVA-Munich and the Viennese contribution gave Braunschweig residents the idea of ​​inviting a Viennese exhibition to Braunschweig [...]" 
10. ↑ [ untitled ] . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . June 2, 2007, p. 18 (picture with the master team and the mayor at the time in the Dornse of the old town hall - with caption).
11. ↑ Uwe Hildebrandt: When the Soviets occupied Prague, 2000 Wolfsburg citizens took to the streets . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . August 21, 2008, p. 12 (With a picture of the appeal in the newspaper edition of the time).
12. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “14. June 1970: state election. The following are elected as Braunschweig MPs: Lord Mayor Bernhard Ließ (SPD) [...] in the constituencies [...] " 
13. ^ City Archives - City Chronicle Braunschweig. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on December 5, 2008 : “7. February 1974: Election of the top management of the Greater Braunschweig Association. Director: Member of Parliament Bernhard Ließ ... " 
14. ^ Elections to the new board of the AG "SPD 60 plus". (No longer available online.) In: spd-braunschweig.de. SPD sub-district Braunschweig, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 5, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.