Gerd Dessel

Gerhard Dessel (born March 16, 1930 in Hagen - Haspe ; † November 24, 2010 ) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1994 to 1998 he was mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Ennepetal .

Life

Gerd Dessel was born in Hasperbach in 1930, which at that time belonged to Haspe. Haspe had been incorporated into Hagen a year before his birth, Hasperbach became a district of Ennepetal in 1949. He trained as a technical draftsman and worked in a steel mill in Hasperbach. There he was also a works council and became a master craftsman .

From 1970 to 2004 he was a member of the Ennepetal City Council for the SPD. He was chairman of the local SPD association Ennepetal-Voerde (he now lived in Voerde) and chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council. He died in 2010 at the age of 80 after heart surgery.

Mayor's office

After he was already deputy mayor of Ennepetal, he was nominated by the SPD as mayor candidate in 1994. He won the election to succeed August Born (EWG / FWE) and was Ennepetal's mayor until 1998. Gerd Dessel's successor in Ennepetal was the non-party CDU candidate Michael Eckhardt .

Street in Ennepetal named after Gerd Dessel

Awards

In 2004 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the then Federal President Johannes Rau for his voluntary work.

2004: Honorary Mayor of the City of Ennepetal

Honorary chairman of the local SPD association in Ennepetal

A street in a new building area on the upper Strückerberg of the Ennepetal district of Büttenberg was named after him.

Web links

Photo of Gerhard Dessel in the list of former mayors of Ennepetal on the website of the city of Ennepetal

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Hermann Pöpsel: Gerd Dessel . In: Frauke Blum, Karl-Heinz Giesick, Hans Hermann Pöpsel, Ingrid Windmöller (eds.): Even more interesting people from Ennepetal . Shaker, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95631-732-3 . P. 29.
↑ Ennepetal mourns Gerd Dessel. Family man and social democrat . Article by Sabine Nölke from November 25, 2010 in the daily newspaper Westfalenpost
↑ The SPD Ennepetal mourns its honorary chairman Gerd Dessel . Announcement from November 25, 2010 on the website of the local SPD association Ennepetal.

personal data
SURNAME	Dessel, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dessel, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagen
DATE OF DEATH	November 24, 2010

[1] Hans Hermann Pöpsel: Gerd Dessel . In: Frauke Blum, Karl-Heinz Giesick, Hans Hermann Pöpsel, Ingrid Windmöller (eds.): Even more interesting people from Ennepetal . Shaker, Aachen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95631-732-3 . P. 29.

[2] Ennepetal mourns Gerd Dessel. Family man and social democrat . Article by Sabine Nölke from November 25, 2010 in the daily newspaper Westfalenpost

[3] The SPD Ennepetal mourns its honorary chairman Gerd Dessel . Announcement from November 25, 2010 on the website of the local SPD association Ennepetal.