Gerhard Wattenberg

Gerhard Wattenberg (born August 18, 1926 in Valdorf , today part of Vlotho ; † May 31, 2016 in Vlotho) was a German local politician ( SPD ) and honorary district administrator for the Herford district .

Life and work

“ Protest !” - Advertisement against the demolition of the Villa Willmer monument and for a Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act ;
1970 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

After attending elementary school , he completed training at the Reichsbahnhof Süd in Bad Oeynhausen . Following his Reich labor service , military service and captivity , he was a railway official from 1945. From 1965 he was union secretary at the union of German railway workers in Minden .

Gerhard Wattenberg was married and had two children.

politics

From March 30, 1973 to September 30, 1999, Wattenberg was a member of the Herford District Council and from October 1, 1987 to October 19, 1989 chairman of the SPD parliamentary group . He was a member of the city council of Vlotho from 1975 and was mayor from 1984 to 1994 .

After the death of District Administrator Siegfried Moning (SPD), he was elected by the district council as his successor on October 20, 1989 and served as the last honorary district administrator in the Herford district until 1999. During his tenure as district administrator, Wattenberg was, among other things, a member of numerous committees of the district council of North Rhine-Westphalia , chairman of the supervisory board of the construction and settlement cooperative for the Herford district and chairman of the administrative board of Sparkasse Herford , to which he had been a member since 1983.

On May 23, 1999, at the suggestion of the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , he took part in the election of the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany as a member of the 11th Federal Assembly .

From 2000 to 2012 he was chairman of the senior citizens' council in his hometown of Vlotho.

Honors

On February 25, 1987, Wattenberg was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and in 1992 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class. He received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2001.

literature

• District Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Documentation on the district administrators and senior district directors in North Rhine-Westphalia 1945–1991 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Gebhard: Gerhard Wattenberg passed away. In: Westfalen-Blatt. May 31, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .