Günter Polauke
Günter Polauke (born August 21, 1948 in Berlin ) was from 1986 to December 1989 for the SED district mayor of the Berlin district of Treptow . He was convicted of participating in election fraud in the GDR in the local elections in May 1989 .
Career
Polauke is married, has two daughters, trained as an agricultural engineer and initially worked as a salesman. After completing his military service with the border troops of the GDR, he graduated from the Leipzig Graduate School of Economics with a degree in economics.
Then he was a year and a half operations director at the HO -Kaufhallenverband, before the Polauke, who became a member of the SED in 1968, switched to local politics and from 1977 to 1982 became district councilor for trade and supply and at the same time deputy mayor of the city.
1982 to 1983 followed a one-year course at the party college of the SED. From 1983 to 1986 Polauke was Kombinat representative of the Central Committee for everyday goods and SED party secretary .
From 1986 to December 1989 he was the successor of Günther Manow (SED), at the time the youngest district mayor of East Berlin in the Berlin district of Treptow.
After the local elections in the GDR in May 1989 , as the responsible election officer, he was accused of massive election fraud, which he admitted under pressure from the city district assembly after the turn of November 1989. At the same time, in November 1989, Polauke was one of the first East Berlin district mayors who met with a district mayor in what was then West Berlin , in the neighboring district of Neukölln , with Frank Bielka ( SPD ) to a. to talk about opening additional border crossings between the two sides.
Under the pressure of proof of election fraud, Polauke resigned as district mayor on December 5, 1989 and resigned from the SED-PDS in early 1990. In an election fraud trial, he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with a two-year suspended sentence.
He then worked a. a. in a bottle acceptance in a HO department store in the Berlin district of Köpenick , later in the housing industry.
At the end of the 90s, after a clear break with his past (he was baptized as a Christian, among other things), the Polauke, who had meanwhile been non-party for many years, applied for membership in the SPD district association Treptow, which was rejected there due to strong reservations because of his past. In 2001 she was accepted into the SPD in the Berlin-Treptow district association.
From 1998 to 2011 Polauke was president of the sports club Berliner TSC , of which he still holds the function of honorary president. In addition, he now works in facility management for the Gegenbauer group of companies .
In 2011 he became President of the Berlin Cycling Association. On May 22, 2012, he announced his resignation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/praesident-des-berliner-radsport-verband-tritt-zurueck;n_26434.html
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Since January 1, 2001, the Treptow district has been part of the new Treptow-Köpenick district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polauke, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |