Henning Schleiff

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Henning Schleiff (born November 2, 1937 in Malchow ) is a former German politician ( SED ). From 1975 to 1990 he was Lord Mayor of Rostock .

Life

Protests against Henning Schleiff in 1990

After graduating from high school, Henning Schleiff began studying at the University of Rostock in 1955, graduating in 1960 with a degree in engineering economics. During his studies he became secretary of the FDJ university group and in 1959 a member of the SED , of which he was a member until 1989/90. From 1963 to 1969 he was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership of Rostock -Stadt and at the same time a member of the central council of the FDJ until 1971. In 1970 he became an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED (IfG), where he received his doctorate in 1974 .

From 1974 to 1989 he was part of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Rostock. In 1976 he became a candidate, from 1981 to 1989 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Rostock.

From 1965 to 1970 and again from 1974 he was a member of the Rostock city ​​council . Schleiff was appointed Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock in 1975 after having been Heinz Kochs ' first deputy since 1974 . He was chairman of the Association of Member Cities of the GDR in the World Federation of Twin Cities . In 1978 he was awarded the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit.

After protests by the citizens of Rostock, he resigned from his position as mayor on March 26, 1990. He then worked for the Deilmann shipping company in Neustadt in Holstein as head of personnel and later became managing director of the Rostock maritime society .

Publications

  • Scientific-technical progress-socialist work-personality (with Werner Fitze and Norbert Pauligk), Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • 40 from 800. Rostock in the GDR, Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2017, ISBN 978-3942673846 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Registration of Henning Schleiff. In: matrikel.uni-rostock.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Chronicle of the change in Rostock. In: www.rostock-1989.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .