Dieter Hapel

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Dieter Hapel (born June 22, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German former politician ( CDU ). From 1997 to 2001 he was the last district mayor of Berlin's Tempelhof district and then the first district mayor of the new Tempelhof-Schöneberg district .

Political career

In 1970 Hapel joined the CDU. In the Berlin elections in 1975 he was elected to the District Assembly of the Tempelhof district. After the previous Berlin MP Peter Lorenz was elected to the German Bundestag , Hapel moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives in January 1981 . In the CDU parliamentary group he took over the office of parliamentary manager.

In 1993, Hapel was elected as the successor to the Tempelhof district mayor Wolfgang Krueger as the new chairman of the CDU Tempelhof district association. After Krueger resigned as district mayor for health reasons in December 1997, Hapel finally succeeded him in this office.

As part of the administrative reform in Berlin in January 2001, the Tempelhof and Schöneberg districts were merged to form the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district. Hapel initially remained district mayor of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, but had to surrender his office to Ekkehard Band (SPD) after the Berlin elections in October 2001 .

He then took over the office of the district councilor for schools, education and culture and was also deputy district mayor. In 2011 he no longer ran for election to the city council and finally resigned from the district office.

In 2005 he gave up the office of district chairman. He was followed by Nicolas Zimmer after.

Hapel is the only living former mayor of the former Tempelhof district and of today's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district.

Social Commitment

Hapel is involved in the federal association Initiative 50Plus , which advocates the interests of those over 50. He heads the capital city studio in Berlin and is responsible for contacts with politics, business and science .

Private

Hapel attended secondary school and graduated from commercial school in 1971 . In 1974 he passed the administrative examination for the upscale postal service and became postal inspector.

In March 2017, an oil painting by Hapels was unveiled in the mayor's gallery of the Tempelhof town hall .

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. 171 f.
  • People's Handbook of the House of Representatives, 12th electoral term, 1991–1996. Verlag Gebr. Holzapfel, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-921226-39-2 , p. 41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Capital Studio Berlin. In: Internet presence of the capital studios of the federal association Initiative 50Plus. 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .
  2. Thomas Moser: The Mayor Gallery: It should be the second Hapel. In: website Lichtenrade-Berlin.de. March 3, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2018 (German).