Bruno Orzykowski

Bruno Orzykowski (born September 28, 1923 in the Insterburg district ; † February 13, 2013 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1970 to 1978 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Bruno Orzykowski grew up as the son of a farm laborer in the East Prussian Norkitten and learned the trade of machine fitter . From 1941 he took part in the Second World War. As a sergeant, he was wounded in Russia and taken prisoner of war. After the war he joined IG Metall . In 1959 he became chairman of the works council of the United Aluminum Works .

Orzyskowski was initially a member of the KPD . As the editor in charge of the communist daily Die Truth in Hanover, he spent 18 months in prison in the mid-1950s. In 1964 he became a member of the SPD. When the SPD candidate for the state elections in Lower Saxony was nominated in 1970 in the Hanover-Linden state electoral district , Orzykowski ousted the previous MP, Interior Minister Richard Lehners . He then won the constituency directly. That he at Christmas 1973 by chief editor Peter Boenisch in the Bild am Sonntag as candelabra had been called, it did not stop at the state election in 1974 retract with 61.5%, the best first vote of the SPD nationwide.

Orzykowski belonged to the left wing of his parliamentary group, which until 1976 held the state government under Prime Minister Alfred Kubel .

literature

(kw): Bruno O. - a key figure in the SPD who was targeted by the GDR State Security in: Rundblick No. 113/2018 of June 17, 2018.
HR: About the person: Bruno Orzykowski. In: Rundblick No. 177/2008.
Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 281.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Can't be true . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1970, pp. 89 ( online ).
^ François Tombalbaye, Jochen Steffen, Betty Hutton, Bruno Orzykowski, Ben Wargin . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1974, p. 202 ( online ).
↑ Shaking the red latch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1974, p. 21st f . ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Orzykowski, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Insterburg district
DATE OF DEATH	February 13, 2013

[spiegel21-1] Can't be true . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1970, pp. 89 ( online ).

[spiegel17-2] François Tombalbaye, Jochen Steffen, Betty Hutton, Bruno Orzykowski, Ben Wargin . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1974, p. 202 ( online ).

[spiegel25-3] Shaking the red latch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1974, p. 21st f . ( online ).