Herbert Wagner (politician)

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Herbert Wagner (born September 21, 1948 in Neustrelitz ) is a former German politician ( CDU ).

Life

After attending school, Wagner first completed an apprenticeship as a heating installer . This was followed by a degree in electronics engineering at the TU Dresden , which he successfully completed in 1973. From 1973 to 1990 Wagner then worked as a development engineer in Dresden . He received his doctorate in 1985 to become a Dr.-Ing.

Wagner only became politically active during the peaceful revolution in the GDR . In October 1989 he became a member of the Group of 20 , which led the dialogue with the Dresden SED leadership under the then Lord Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer . As a representative of the Catholic lay movement, he came on October 10, 1989 after the first dialogue with the state power as a replacement for the Catholic chaplain Frank Richter , who withdrew from the group after one day due to the political prohibition of Catholic clergy. From November 1989 Wagner was one of the organizers of the Monday demonstrations in Dresden.

From 1990 he was active in local politics in Dresden, initially as parliamentary group leader of the grassroots democratic parliamentary group in the Dresden city council. Also in 1990 Herbert Wagner joined the CDU . After the first free local elections in the GDR in May 1990, he was elected Lord Mayor of Dresden , at that time still elected by the city council . In the first OB direct elections in 1994, he was able to successfully maintain his post. During his time as mayor, Wagner was also President of the Saxon City and Municipal Association and deputy to the President of the German City Association . In 2001, however, he was defeated by his challenger Ingolf Roßberg ( FDP ), who was supported by the non-partisan initiative OB for Dresden .

After the election defeat, Wagner was managing director of KDN Kommunale DatenNetz GmbH Dresden until summer 2008. Since then he has been volunteering at the Bautzner Straße Memorial in Dresden as Chairman of the Board of Directors and on the Advisory Board of the Saxon Memorials Foundation to commemorate the victims of political tyranny.

Wagner is married and has three children.

Honors

On May 26, 1999, Erich Iltgen, President of the State Parliament, awarded him the Saxon Constitutional Medal. On October 13, 2009, he received the Saxon Order of Merit on the occasion of the "20 Years of Peaceful Revolution " . On November 7, 2014 he received the German Society Award . V. for services to German and European understanding. - In 2000 he was voted one of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in the Sächsische Zeitung of October 20, 1989 with Wagner
  2. ^ TU Chemnitz, press release November 19, 2004
  3. ↑ Info 2013-2018 on the sponsoring association of the memorial
  4. ↑ Board of Trustees , accessed on February 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Award of the Saxon Order of Merit ( memento of March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at the Saxon State Chancellery, October 13, 2009
  6. ^ DIE WELT: German Society honors four GDR civil rights activists . In: THE WORLD . October 29, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed December 11, 2017]).
  7. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .
predecessor Office successor
Wolfgang Berghofer Lord Mayor of Dresden
1990 - 2001 		Ingolf Rossberg
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz