Dietrich Schaeffer

Dietrich Schaeffer (born December 5, 1933 in Berlin ; † May 9, 2010 there ) was a Berlin politician ( SPD ) and trade unionist.

Career

Schaeffer attended grammar school and graduated from high school in 1953. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Education in Berlin , where he passed the curative education state examination in 1962. He then worked at various special schools and in 1967 became the director of a special school.

Schaeffer joined the SPD in 1958, his political home was the SPD local association in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf . There he was department chairman, district and state delegate and from 1963 to 1967 parliamentary group secretary in the district assembly of Zehlendorf. In the Berlin election in 1975 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but due to the decision of the court in the re-election in the Zehlendorf district on January 25, 1976, he was eliminated again.

In addition, Schaeffer was organized in a union from the mid-1960s. For four years he was deputy and four years chairman of the Berlin State Association of the Education and Science Union (GEW). During this time he consistently represented the interests of the city's teaching staff. He was a member of the state board of the DGB district of Berlin and for six years the collective bargaining policy committee of the DGB federal board. From 1979 to 1994 he was chairman of the VBE Berlin .

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit
• Honorary member of the Association of Former Members of the Berlin House of Representatives
• Honorary member of the VBE Berlin

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. 321 f.