Erwin Bennewitz
Erwin Georg Bennewitz (born June 5, 1902 in Rixdorf near Berlin ; † October 22, 1980 in Springe ) was district mayor of the Berlin district of Treptow from October 1946 to July 1948 .
Until his forced replacement, he was the last freely elected district mayor until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the free local elections that followed in 1990.
Life
Bennewitz was married, attended elementary school and after an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, he worked as a machine and engine fitter in Berlin. Later he worked as a commercial clerk.
During the time of National Socialism , he was in preventive detention in the Berlin-Alexanderplatz police prison for four months and was banned from leaving the city.
After the liberation he was active again as a functionary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), began work as a personnel manager at Bewag and was a member of the works council .
After the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946, Bennewitz belonged to the Altglienicke SPD department with the group that actively reestablished the SPD district association in Treptow, rejecting the newly created unity party.
On October 20, 1946 Bennewitz was elected city and district councilor for the SPD in the Berlin district of Treptow. In the constituent meeting on December 11, 1946, the District Assembly (BVV), from which the SPD emerged as the strongest party, elected Erwin G. Bennewitz as the first freely elected district mayor after the Second World War . In the period that followed, tensions between the SPD and the bourgeois parties CDU and LDP on the one hand and the SED on the other increased, and in the summer of 1948 there was a political split in the city of Berlin, which resulted in Bennewitz in July 1948 with the help of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) was replaced.
His previous deputy Paul Ickert (SED) was appointed as the new district mayor, the SPD went underground and was no longer represented in the BVV from that point on.
Bennewitz moved from fear of further political persecution in the west of Germany, in the Lower Saxony Barsinghausen , but where he took no local government functions more. He died on October 22, 1980 near his home in Springe.
Honors
A street in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick has been named after him since 2011 (Erwin-Bennewitz-Weg).
literature
- Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 69 (331 pages).
Individual evidence
- ^ Street name after Erwin Georg Bennewitz. SPD Altglienicke, March 6, 2011, accessed on March 13, 2017 .
Julius Grunow (1921–1933) | Julius Koehne (1933–1945) | Paul May (1945) | Paul Donner (1945–1946) | Erwin Bennewitz (1946–1948) | Paul Ickert (1948–1951) | Elfriede Dallmann (1951–1952) | Paul Graefe (1952–1959) | Joachim Hoffmann (1959–1961) | Walter Sack (1961–1963) | Fritz Strutzke (1963–1965) | Horst Stranz (1965–1967) | Walter Sack (1967–1974) | Franz Stengl (1974–1977) | Günter Scheel (1977–1981) | Günther Manow (1981–1986) | Günter Polauke (1986–1989) | Michael Brückner (1990–1998) | Siegfried Stock (1998-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Treptow district has been part of the new Treptow-Köpenick district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bennewitz, Erwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bennewitz, Erwin Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (SPD) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rixdorf near Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1980 |
| Place of death | Jump |