Egon Kähler

Egon Kähler (born September 26, 1925 in Lübeck , † June 29, 1992 in Riga ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

biography

education and profession

Kähler learned the trade of a machinist. He served in the Navy from 1943 during World War II . From 1945 to 1947 he was under a US command with a German mine sweeping association . Since 1950 he worked as a machine fitter at Bremer Vulkan in Bremen-Nord . Here he was elected a member of the works council since 1959 . From 1963 to 1992 he was managing director of the then municipal Bremen Society for Urban Renewal, Urban Development and Housing .

politics

Kähler had been a member of the NSDAP since 1943 and of the SPD in Bremen-Nord after the war.

From 1963 to 1979 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship for 16 years and worked in various deputations and committees of the citizenship. In 1971 he became deputy parliamentary group leader and succeeded Walter Franke (SPD) as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from March 1975 to 1979. He was followed in this role by Klaus Wedemeier (SPD).

The Egon Kahler Road in Bremen - Obervieland was named after him.

Fonts

• Politics for Bremen . Bremen 1975.

swell

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
• Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .