Friedrich Piefke

Friedrich "Fritz" Piefke (born February 9, 1907 in Rixdorf near Berlin , † August 27, 1988 in Ostrach , Sigmaringen district ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Friedrich Piefke attended elementary school and trained as a typesetter . In 1922 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1925 the SPD. He attended the master's school in the graphic arts industry , after which he worked as a commercial clerk. With the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he went into the resistance and became a member of the "Parole" resistance group . In 1942 he became the Wehrmacht confiscated and fell in 1945 in captivity .

After the Second World War , Piefke returned to Berlin in 1946 and became political secretary of the SPD in the Treptow district , and from October 1946 onwards with the SPD Berlin . In 1950 he became a co-founder of the newspaper “Berlin Voice”, of which he was the publishing director and partner until 1973. From 1951 to 1954 he was an honorary assessor at the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin . In the Berlin election in 1954 , Piefke was elected to the district council in the Neukölln district. In the 1963 election he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, in the same year he also succeeded Werner Kreuziger as managing director of the Berlin Youth Recreation Center. In 1975 Piefke left parliament because of his age.

In 1977 Piefke was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin . From 1980 he lived in Baden-Württemberg .

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. 290.

Web links

• SPD Berlin - biography