Henry Brügmann

Henry Brügmann (born August 16, 1933 in Hamburg ) is a German SPD politician and former member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life

Henry Brügmann attended elementary, vocational and technical school in Hamburg. After completing an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he continued his education as a master mason and structural engineer. In 1963 he went to the Hamburg building authorities as a technical employee and joined the ÖTV trade union . His colleagues elected him chairman of the authority's staff council and then to the main staff council of the Hanseatic city. Brügmann is married and has two sons.

politics

In 1967 Brügmann joined the SPD. The chairmanship of the Harburg local association was one of his various party offices . From 1970 to 1978 he was a member of the district assembly in the Harburg district .

From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the Hamburg citizenship , since he represented the mandate of a senator (the citizenship mandates of senators in Hamburg have been constitutionally suspended since 1971). He was primarily involved in the submissions committee, the transport committee and the public service committee . After the MP Sonja Pape resigned her mandate on September 10, 1986, he again exercised the citizenship mandate of senator instead of her until the end of the electoral term in December of that year.

In March 1999 he became chairman of the Harburg district senior advisory board. In this position he succeeded Elisabeth Ostermeier . The cross-party senior citizens' advisory board has set itself the task of representing the interests of the older generation in public and vis-à-vis the administration.

literature

• Hinnerk Fock (editor): Handbook of the Hamburg citizenship. Personal details. 9th legislative term. Pp. 75f, 36, 47 and 50.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elisabeth Ostermeier. Farewell to the “great old lady.” Hamburg thaler for Elisabeth Ostermeier. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 10, 1999.