Günter Sahner

Günter Sahner (born December 5, 1927 in Wiebelskirchen , today Neunkirchen (Saar) ; † December 11, 2014 there ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and activity

Sahner trained as a machinist during the Second World War , and completed his apprenticeship with a journeyman's examination. Towards the end of the war he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he served as a soldier in a unit of paratroopers. He was captured in Scheveningen in the Netherlands , but was soon released from there. After his return he practiced the profession he had learned at the railway in Neunkirchen until 1949. He then switched to mining, in which his father was also active. In Saarnberg he was driving on the pit Kohlwald a shunting locomotive.

Sahner joined the SPD during his apprenticeship. In 1956 he became chairman of the Wiebelskirchen local association. In the same year he moved into the local council. In 1964 he was elected the first alderman of the municipality, in 1968 he took over the office of mayor. In 1971 he rose to the post of head of the Wiebelskirchen office until it was dissolved by the regional reform and the municipalities belonging to the office joined the district town of Neunkirchen. After the incorporation, he was a member of the Neunkirchen city council until 1976. In 1965 he was elected to the Saarland state parliament, to which he was a member until 1985. There he chaired the Petitions Committee for a while.

On August 12, 1985 Sahner was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit.

He also belonged to other associations, for example the industrial union IGBCE , the workers' welfare , the Red Cross , in which his mother was also active, and a carnival club.

Sahner married Elfriede Kluding in May 1950. The marriage resulted in two daughters. A few months before his death he had a great-grandson. He died of cancer and was buried on December 15, 2014 in Wiebelskirchen.

Web links

• Günter Sahner on saarland-biografien.de
• "Politics was his second life" from the series "Lebenswege" of the Saarbrücker Zeitung (texts differ slightly from one another): [1] , [2]
• Obituaries from the Saarbrücker Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 34 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken August 22, 1985, p. 802 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 246 kB ; accessed on May 31, 2017]).