Hermann Solbach

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Hermann Solbach ( February 12, 1895 - March 23, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1948 to 1953 he was mayor of the Berlin district of Weißensee .

Life

Solbach learned the commercial profession and specialized in the textile industry and in the arts and crafts. During the Second World War he lost a 19 year old son.

In October 1945 he became a member of the CDU and 2nd chairman of the CDU local group Hohenschönhausen . Later he was deputy chairman of the Weißensee district association. In April 1948 he succeeded Fritz Hofmann as chairman of the CDU district association Weißensee and in December 1948 he succeeded the mayor of the Weissensee district Wilhelm Reimann , who had increasing difficulties with the command of the Soviet sector in Berlin . He held this position until 1953. In February 1953 he was replaced by Franz Wehner from the SED .

On May 16, 1949, Solbach was elected to the 3rd German People's Congress on a unified list, which on May 30, 1949 determined a new German People's Council . In June 1949 he was appointed to the CDU state executive committee and, after the party's structural change in July 1952, to the executive committee of the newly formed CDU city association of East Berlin. From January 1950 he worked as a member of the Weissensee district committee of the National Front . In 1953 he became district director or head of the Prenzlauer Berg district office of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1954 to 1963 he was a member of the Berlin City Council and a member of the Standing Commission for Trade and Supply. On the occasion of his 65th birthday in 1960, he was identified by Professor Eyermann created Otto Nuschke plaque of the CDU "merits in the development of an advanced regional organization Berlin, the current district association for its Greater Berlin CDU" presented. On this occasion, Solbach expressed his and the "wish of all Germans that our fatherland, our capital, finally become one again."

Solbach died at the age of 71 and was buried in the St. Bartholomew Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candidates for the city council . In: Neue Zeit , October 31, 1958, p. 6.
  2. ^ Candidates for the People's Congress . In: Neues Deutschland , May 5, 1949, p. 6.
  3. ^ Conference of State Delegates of the State Association Berlin - A new board . In: Neue Zeit, June 19, 1949, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Weißensee formed the district committee of the National Front . In: Neues Deutschland, January 30, 1950, p. 1.
  5. ↑ New Times , February 13, 1960 Volume 16 / Issue Berlin / Page 12
  6. ^ Obituaries in Neue Zeit, March 30, 1966, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Solbach, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1895
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1966
Place of death Berlin