Christian Hartenhauer

Christian Matthias Wilhelm Hartenhauer (born May 2, 1948 in Chemnitz ) is a former German politician ( SED ). In 1990 he was Lord Mayor of East Berlin for a few weeks .

Life

Hartenhauer was born in Chemnitz in 1948 as the son of a textile worker. He attended elementary school there from 1954 to 1962 and then went to advanced secondary school until 1966 , where he also completed accompanying vocational training as a lathe operator. He then studied until 1970 at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorst . After graduating , he did his doctorate on the subject of "Rationalization of the application of law in the field of international business law by means of electronic data processing". After completing his doctorate, he worked for a short time in the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the GDR until he had to start his military service. He then took up jobs that would shape him into a technocratic politician. In 1976 he became a functionary of the youth organization Free German Youth (FDJ) and was chairman of the FDJ in Berlin-Mitte for one year . At the beginning of the 1980s he took part in a one-year course at the Soviet Academy for Social Sciences in Moscow and was then responsible for other organizations in the GDR.

Berlin line

In 1985 Hartenhauer became deputy head of the culture department in the Berlin magistrate, and a year later he was already city councilor for culture. In this position his main task was to organize the 750th anniversary of Berlin. When Lord Mayor Erhard Krack was held responsible for the fraudulent elections in the local elections of May 7, 1989 , and he resigned in February 1990, Hartenauer was elected as his successor. He prevailed against Ingrid Pankraz , who held office as a temporary solution for the time between Krack's resignation and the new election. After the election of the new city council , in May 1990 Tino Schwierzina was also elected as a new mayor. Hartenauer then took a job in the private sector.

literature

• Short biography for:  Hartenhauer, Christian . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Biography Mayor of East Berlin at the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein