Günter Lunow

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Günter Lunow (2009)

Günter Lunow (born November 12, 1926 in Wismar ; † August 23, 2017 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1969 to 1989 he was Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Wismar.

Life

Günter Lunow was born the son of a worker in Wismar. After attending school in Wismar, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

Immediately after the end of the war, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Stadtwerke Wismar. Lunow became a member of the SED. He completed a degree in administrative and constitutional law with a degree in administrative management (FH) . Later he also became a graduate in political science. Günter Lunow was married and has two daughters.

From December 1, 1948, he entered the city's service and became an advisor to the mayor of Wismar, Herbert Säverin . From 1952 he worked for the Rostock District Council and from 1953 in the administration of the Grevesmühlen district . From 1953 to 1959 he was chairman of the council of the Wismar district and from 1959 to 1969 of the Bad Doberan district .

On April 15, 1969, Günter Lunow was appointed as the mayor of the Hanseatic city of Wismar as the successor to Herbert Fiegert , who had retired , a task that he fulfilled until he was recalled by the city council on November 15, 1989. At the same time he was a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Wismar.

On February 28, 1979 he was appointed to the election commission of the GDR under the direction of Friedrich Ebert to carry out the local elections on May 20, 1979. On October 28, 1987, he signed a partnership agreement between Wismar and Lübeck with Lübeck's mayor Robert Knüppel . On February 3, 1989, he welcomed the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein and then President of the Federal Council of the Federal Republic of Germany , Björn Engholm , in Wismar.

Lunow died at the age of 90.

Awards

literature

  • Chronicle of the SED district leadership Wismar. Part I-IV, born 1983–1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait in Neues Deutschland from March 29, 1983.
  2. ↑ Günter Lunow in a personal conversation on August 14, 2009.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1979, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 29, 1987, p. 6.
  5. ^ Neues Deutschland , February 4, 1989, p. 2.
  6. ^ Obituary notice in the Ostsee-Zeitung from September 5, 2017 (accessed on September 10, 2017).
  7. ↑ Junge Welt, June 2, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Lunow, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Wismar
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 2017
Place of death Wismar