Heiner Halberstadt

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Heiner Halberstadt (born May 17, 1928 in Hörde , Dortmund ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ) in Frankfurt am Main .

biography

After finishing school, Halberstadt began training as a chemical laboratory technician . He evaded the threat of being drafted into the Wehrmacht and experienced the end of the Second World War, hidden in Husum .

He then worked for the Deutsche Bundespost in Frankfurt am Main until 1955 , initially as a worker and from 1947 as a civil servant . From 1955 to 1962 he took over the management of the Frankfurt association “Houses of the Open Door”. He was fired there on charges of communist activities, but he was taken on as an employee in the Stadtbahnbauamt of the city of Frankfurt. There, he was for many years the total personalrat and was finally 1989-1992 Assistant to the Mayor Volker Hauff .

Halberstadt is one of the founders of the Frankfurt “ Club Voltaire ”, which was an important venue for events and discussions in the student movement of the 1960s and continues to do so today.

politics

Halberstadt joined the SPD in 1946 and was excluded again in 1962. He was re-accepted into the party in 1972, but resigned in 1995 to forestall a threatened expulsion. He was accepted into the PDS in 1998 and was a city councilor in Frankfurt for his party from 2001 to 2006. With the PDS he joined Die Linke in 2007 .

As a representative nominated by the party “Die Linke” in Hesse, he was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly in 2009 . Halberstadt is also a member of the Left Council of Elders.

literature

  • Heiner Halberstadt: You can start over with your last breath , a life as a socialist. Edited and edited by Frank Deppe and David Salomon, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-89965-893-4

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