Erhard Holweger

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Erhard Holweger (born September 14, 1911 in Herrnstadt ; † February 3, 1976 , also: Erhardt) was a politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He was Lord Mayor in Wismar and Stralsund .

Life

Erhard Holweger was the son of a miner . He attended elementary school and an advanced training school in Recklinghausen until 1926 , after which he attended a trade school until 1930 and completed an apprenticeship as a tool and machine fitter. In 1928 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). From 1930 to 1936 he was unemployed, after which he worked as a fitter in the Ernst Heinkel aircraft works in Rostock and in the North German Dornier works in Wismar . Most recently he worked as a calculator.

After the Second World War he worked in Bad Kleinen, first as an employee of the municipality, then until 1946 as mayor . He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1945 and was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) after the union of the SPD and KPD in 1946 . From 1946 to 1949 he was mayor of Neubukow , at the same time he attended a course at the SED state party school in Mecklenburg in Wiligrad in 1948 . In 1949/50 he took part in the second two-year course at the party college "Karl Marx" . From 1951 to 1952 he was Lord Mayor of Wismar . In 1951 he took up a distance learning course at the German Administration Academy, which he graduated in 1954 with a degree in political science . In 1952 he became district administrator of the Hagenow district and from July 29, 1952 to August 6, 1952, chairman of the Rostock district council . But Holweger was dismissed from this position and received a reprimand on August 19, 1952 for “behavior that was harmful to the party”.

Until 1953 he was employed as a special representative of the Rostock district council in the Bergen district and Glowe . From 1953 to 1954 he was chairman of the Bergen district council and from September 1954 as successor to Hermann Salinger's mayor of Stralsund . In October 1957 he was recalled and received a reprimand for “non-partisan behavior”. Bruno Motczinski was his successor in Stralsund .

From 1957 to 1958, Holweger was director of labor at VEB Bau Stralsund , from 1958 to 1975 he was head of the internal affairs department at the Stralsund-Land district council and head of the cabinet of representatives.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Herbst :  Holweger, Erhardt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ^ Herbert Ewe : History of the city of Stralsund. Publications of the Stralsund City Archives , Volume X. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben , Weimar 1984, page 381
personal data
SURNAME Holweger, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and Lord Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrnstadt
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1976