Helmut Simson

Helmut Simson

Helmut Simson (* 29. August 1916 in Berlin , † 13. March 2013 in Wolfsburg ) was a German politician of the SPD . From 1974 to 1976 he was Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg.

Life

After graduating from high school, doing labor and military service, Simson was a soldier in World War II , mainly in Russia . At the end of the war he was a lieutenant in an army flaka division. In June 1945, Simson was released from American captivity. When he returned to his hometown, in view of the ruins, he decided to become a bricklayer and finished his apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1949 with the journeyman's examination . From 1952 to 1954 he studied at the Academy for Economics and Politics in Hamburg .

From 1955 to 1962 Simson was managing director of the IG Bau-Steine-Erden trade union in Wolfsburg and from 1962 to 1979 he was executive chairman of the DGB group Wolfsburg / Gifhorn. In the sixth and seventh electoral terms, Simson was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member from June 6, 1967 to June 20, 1974. From 1970 to 1974 he was chairman of the Committee on Youth and Sport. In the council of the city of Wolfsburg, he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group and from September 17, 1974 to November 3, 1976, Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg. Simson is often called the father of the Bildungsurlaubsgesetz because he discussed and enforced this law with other members of the parliament. To date, over a million people have used the law. In Samson's time as mayor, the redesign of Porschestrasse was decided.

Helmut Simson was a member of the SPD for over 55 years and a member of the union for over 60 years. In 1999 Simson became an honorary citizen of the city of Wolfsburg and has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . Simson wrote a biography about Bork's life and work in 2008 for the 100th birthday of his predecessor Hugo Bork .

Helmut Simson is the brother of the actress Marianne Simson (1920–1992).

literature

• Christoph Stölzl: The Wolfsburg saga. Theiss, 2008, ISBN 978-3806222166
• Helmut Simson: Hugo Bork  : Biography , Wolfsburg 2008
• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 362.

Web links

• Article on the 95th birthday , October 6, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dapd: Municipalities: Former Wolfsburg Lord Mayor Simson has died. In: welt.de . March 23, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo Bork	Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg 1974 - 1976	Rolf Nolting