Helmuth Christensen

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Helmuth Christensen (born September 17, 1918 in Flensburg ; † April 17, 2008 ibid) was a German politician. He was mayor from 1956 to 1982 and from 1982 to 1983 mayor of the city of Flensburg for half a year .

Career

School, military service and war missions

Christensen graduated from the old grammar school in Flensburg in 1937 . After the Reich Labor Service (RAD), the draft order for military service followed in the same year , which he served with Flak Regiment 6 in Hamburg-Altona from 1937 to 1939 . In 1941/1942, the Second World War took him to Russia, Poland and East Germany, where he was wounded several times. In May 1945 he was captured by the British with the rank of first lieutenant .

Study and job

From 1946 to 1949 Christensen studied law and economics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . From 1949 to 1953 he worked for nine months as a court trainee at the city administration in Flensburg and then passed his second state examination . The title of his dissertation for Dr. iur. (Doctor of Laws) read: "Independence of the judge and judge's indictment in the modern constitutional state (legal comparison between German, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian constitutional law)." From 1954 to 1955 he worked as an associate lawyer and from 1955 to 1956 as a lawyer in Flensburg.

Political career

In 1956, the South Schleswig Association of Voters (SSW) put Helmuth Christensen up as a candidate for the mayoral election on March 22nd. The council meeting in Flensburg elected him with 27 of 32 votes as the new mayor , the permanent representative of the mayor . In the post-war period, Christensen campaigned for Danish companies to settle in Flensburg and thus create urgently needed jobs for the city. Another focus of his tenure was the supply of district heating by the Stadtwerke Flensburg . Nine years after taking office, the council unanimously re-elected him on April 14, 1965. Another eight and a half years later, he ran again on November 8, 1973 at the suggestion of the SPD parliamentary group and was again unanimously re-elected. At the end of September 1982, he replaced Bodo Richter from the SPD as Lord Mayor, because he was taking up a position as City Director of Wuppertal . Christensen remained the acting Lord Mayor of Flensburg until the end of February 1983, when Olaf Cord Dielewicz (SPD) won the election.

Committees, boards of directors and assemblies

Helmuth Christensen was a member of various committees, boards and assemblies, including:

  • 1961–1983: Member of the main committee of the Association of Local Employers (VKA) based in Cologne. There he participated in the large collective bargaining commission of the federal, state and local governments.
  • 1963–1983: Deputy member of the administrative committee of the Flensburg employment office
  • 1970–1983: Member of the representative assembly of the LVA in Schleswig-Holstein
  • 1977-1985: Member of SSW -Landesvorstand (SSWs landsstyrelse)
  • From 1961: Member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Planning Council
  • From 1978: Member of the state committee of doctors and health insurance companies in Schleswig-Holstein
  • From 1960: Board member of Union-Bank AG Flensburg, board member of the Südschleswigschen Verein , honorary member of the City Fire Brigade Association of Flensburg-Stadt
  • From 1983: Chairman of the supervisory board of the Flensburger Arbeiter-Bauverein (FAB)
  • From 1967: Board member of the Society for Flensburg City History

Honors

  • Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class as well as other medals and combat badges
  • In 1978 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, in 1982 that of 1st class
  • In 1979 he was made a knight of the Dannebrog Order 1st and 2nd degree.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Birgit Seidler: SSW Flensborg har meget at takke Dr. Helmuth Christensen for. SSW Flensborg, April 17, 2008, accessed July 17, 2016 (Danish).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dieter Pust : Kings, mayors and presidents in Flensburg . Biographical sketches. Ed .: Society for Flensburg City History (=  small series . Issue 15). 1st edition. Flensburg 1987, ISBN 3-925856-04-8 , Acting Lord Mayor Dr. Helmuth Christensen (1982/83), p. 246-249 .
  3. ^ Flemming Meyer , Dieter Lenz: Til minde om Helmuth Christensen. (PDF) In: Flensborg Avis . April 21, 2008, p. 3 , archived from the original on July 17, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2016 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Christensen, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SSW)
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2008
Place of death Flensburg