Dieter Sauberzweig

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Dieter Sauberzweig (born November 17, 1925 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † December 28, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German cultural politician ( SPD ).

Life

Dieter Sauberzweig was a son of SS General Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig (1899-1946), who committed suicide in 1946 while a prisoner of war. He grew up in Berlin, Hanover and Vienna, where he graduated from high school in 1942. In the same year he was called up for military service. After the war, he completed an apprenticeship in Schleswig-Holstein and then studied history, education, psychology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg from 1947 . From 1950 until 1971 he worked as a freelancer for various radio companies. From 1953 he worked for the German National Academic Foundation , received his doctorate a year later in Hamburg and was promoted to executive board member of the German Academic Foundation until 1960. In 1966, Sauberzweig became an alderman of the German Association of Cities and rose to become a member of the presidency there.

Sauberzweig joined the SPD in 1971. In 1977 the new Governing Mayor of Berlin Dietrich Stobbe appointed him as Senator for Culture in his cabinet. In the Berlin election in 1981 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he belonged until 1985. He remained a senator until 1981 (also under Hans-Jochen Vogel ). It was not until the new CDU Senate that Sauberzweig had to vacate his seat.

After his political career, Sauberzweig became head of the German Institute for Urban Studies in Berlin in 1981 . He held this position until 1991. From 1983 he was also an honorary professor at the University of Konstanz . From 1999 to 2002 he was the curator of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds .

Sauberzweig was married twice and had two children.

Dieter Sauberzweig died in Berlin in 2005 at the age of 80. His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Awards

See also

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. 320.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 572.
personal data
SURNAME Clean branch, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD) and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2005
Place of death Berlin