Günther Abendroth

Günther Abendroth's grave of honor in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

Günther Abendroth (born August 16, 1920 in Berlin ; † January 10, 1993 there ) was a German SPD politician .

Life

Abendroth studied chemistry at the TU Berlin . After the Second World War he joined the IG Chemie and the SPD. From 1948 to 1958 he was a district councilor in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Subsequently, it was for a term of the Member Berlin House of Representatives . In January 1963, Abendroth became district mayor of Kreuzberg until he gave up this office in 1975. In November 1980, he replaced Gerd Wartenberg, a member of the Bundestag, in the House of Representatives.

Since 1961, Abendroth was chairman of the "Freie Volksbühne" Berlin .

In 1989, Abendroth received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class , and a year later he was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin .

Günther Abendroth died in January 1993 at the age of 72 in Berlin. His final resting place in the Wilmersdorf cemetery (grave location: D 16-UW 23) is dedicated to the State of Berlin as an honorary grave .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 55 (331 pages).

Web links

Commons : Günther Abendroth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• SPD Berlin - biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . 505. Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 1. Accessed on February 11, 2020.