Friedhelm van den Mond

Friedhelm van den Mond (born March 12, 1932 in Oberhausen ) is a German mining engineer and politician ( SPD ).

Professional background

Van den Mond began an apprenticeship at the Alstaden colliery in Oberhausen in April 1947 , which he completed in 1950 with the miner's examination. From 1951 to 1953 he attended the mountain pre-school, in the following three years the mountain school in Hamborn and has been a qualified mining engineer since 1956. From April 1956 he worked as a steer at the Alstaden colliery, in 1959 he became a department head.

After the colliery was closed at the end of 1972, he studied pedagogy, social and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1973 to 1977 . He completed his studies with the first state examination, which, after a legal clerkship in Gelsenkirchen, was followed in 1979 by the second state examination for teaching at vocational schools.

Political career

Friedhelm van den Mond became a member of the IGBE as early as 1946, and in 1963 he joined the SPD. For this he was elected to the Oberhausen City Council in 1969 and first mayor in 1975. From 1979 to 1997 he was Lord Mayor of the city. He gave up his office two years before the end of the legislative period in order to give his successor Burkhard Drescher an official bonus before the first direct election of the city head . In 1998 he was made an honorary citizen of Oberhausen, after he had been awarded the city's ring of honor in 1982.

literature

• Michael Schmitz: “Let's talk about the Pütt”. Friedhelm van den Mond, Lord Mayor of Oberhausen . In: Oberhausen '97, a year book , pp. 72–80.