Herbert Böhme (politician)

Herbert Böhme (born June 10, 1907 in Schönefeld (Leipzig) , † October 25, 1990 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Herbert Böhme was the son of an iron lathe operator and attended a secondary school in Leipzig . From 1924 he did an apprenticeship at the Stadtbank Leipzig and in 1925 he joined the SPD. He first worked at this bank, later he attended high school in Rochlitz and graduated in 1930 with the Abitur. Böhme then studied philosophy, pedagogy, sociology and economics at the University of Leipzig , which he completed in 1934 with the state examination for the teaching post for elementary schools . He worked in school in Saxony , but left there for political reasons. During the Second World War he was department head at the "Reichsstelle für Lederwirtschaft" in the Reich Ministry of Economics in Berlin .

After the war, Böhme worked in a similar position as a department head at the German Central Administration for Industry in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ). In the first Berlin election in 1946 , he was elected to the district council in the Schöneberg district. In 1948 he moved to the magistrate of Greater Berlin and a little later became personal advisor to the governing mayor Ernst Reuter . Therefore, in the next election in 1948 , Böhme was elected to the city ​​council of Greater Berlin , but left parliament again in February 1949.

After Ernst Reuter's death in September 1953, Böhme first became a government director at the Berlin Senate and was then chairman of the fire society in 1958 . In 1960 he became managing director of the Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin-West and was finally retired in 1972.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 73 (331 pages).