Harald Lastovka

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Harald Lastovka, 2008

Harald Lastovka (born on August 7, 1944 in Trautenau ; died on August 25, 2016 in Stralsund ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From May 1990 to October 2008 he was Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund.

Harald Lastovka was born in Trautenau in the Giant Mountains in 1944 . After the family was expelled in 1946, he found shelter in a refugee home on the grounds of the Stralsund state hospital . After schooling, he began in 1961 teaching the steam locomotive mechanic and was followed up in 1965 as a locksmith at the German National Railroad operates. From 1965 to 1968 Harald Lastovka studied mechanical engineering at the engineering school in Wismar ; from 1968 to 1989 he worked as a software developer at VEB Robotron , then again at the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

In February 1990, Harald Lastovka joined the CDU. On May 29, 1990 he became Lord Mayor of Stralsund . From 1991 to 2001 he was a member of the CDU state executive in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . For the third electoral term in the function of Lord Mayor, he prevailed in May 2001 in the direct election for Lord Mayor in the second ballot against Karsten Neumann ( PDS ). When he was elected mayor in May 2008, Lastovka did not run for reasons of age. His successor in office was Alexander Badrow .

Lastovka saw the visit of US President George W. Bush on July 13, 2006 to the city of Stralsund as the high point of his political career . The attempt he intensely pursued to privatize the Sparkasse Hansestadt Stralsund attracted a great deal of attention in 2003 and 2004.

Harald Lastovka had been married since 1969. His wife Marianne Lastovka works as a lawyer in a law firm. The couple had a son who is also involved in local politics.

Web links

Commons : Harald Lastovka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NDR: Stralsund's former mayor Lastovka is dead. In: www.ndr.de. Retrieved August 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jan Armbruster, Harald J. Freyberger: Safekeeping, Destruction, Therapy. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8300-6356-8
personal data
SURNAME Lastovka, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Stralsund
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Trautenau
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2016
Place of death Stralsund