Dieter Biewald

Candidate poster for the parliamentary elections in West Berlin in 1979

Dieter Biewald (born December 8, 1932 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Biewald attended the 7th high school on Hermannplatz , today's Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium in Berlin-Neukölln . After graduating from high school, he studied chemistry and later geography at the Free University of Berlin , at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Polytechnic in Athens . He passed his first state examination for teaching in 1961, his assessor examination in 1963, his second state examination in 1967 and he received his doctorate in 1971 on coral reefs and geomorphology .

Biewald was assistant at the Free University of Berlin in the chemical institute and in the geomorphological institute, study assessor, teacher at the Steglitz high school , teacher , director of studies and deputy director at the Tannenberg high school in Berlin-Lichterfelde .

In 1967 Biewald joined the CDU. He sat in the Berlin House of Representatives from 1973 to 1999 . From 1975 to 1997 he was broadcasting councilor at the SFB , from 1992 to 1997 program committee and chairman of the advisory board of ARD . On December 3rd, 2008 he was appointed city ​​elder of Berlin .

Awards

• since 1999 honorary chairman of the CDU Berlin-Lankwitz
• 1982 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1992 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1991 Prussian pin in gold for maintaining the Berlin theater landscape
• 1992 silver medal for 20 years of parliamentary service
• 1995 Bismarck Medal for services to reunification
• 1997 Hans Bredow Medal for services to German broadcasting
• 2008 Rotary International Award: Appointed "Paul Harris Fellow"

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 90 f.

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