Horst-Dieter Brähmig

Horst-Dieter Brähmig (born October 23, 1938 in Hoyerswerda ; † June 27, 2017 there ) was a German local politician ( Die Linke ). From 1994 to 2006 he was Lord Mayor of his native Hoyerswerda.

Life

Brähmig was born in 1938 in Hoyerswerda, the son of a doctor. After attending EOS , which he finished with his Abitur in 1956, he trained as a medical-technical assistant at the Hoyerswerda district hospital. In 1969 he moved to the Hoyerswerda District Council , where he held offices in the health and energy sector and joined the SED . From 1972 to 1976 he completed a degree in political science and law, which he graduated with a degree in political science. After 1990, he initially took on management functions in the trade and then in the road traffic office. At the same time he worked as a city councilor for the PDS . He was chairman of the PDS parliamentary group and on June 26, 1994 elected Lord Mayor of Hoyerswerda. When he took office on August 1, 1994, he was the first PDS politician to be elected mayor. When re-elected in 2001, he received 48.6 percent of the vote. He held the mayor's office until 2006. He then retired. Brähmig succumbed to cancer on June 27, 2017.

Brähmig was chairman of the Konrad-Zuse-Forum Hoyerswerda eV

Web links

Sophie Bartholome: Hoyerswerda - A city is shrinking: Horst-Dieter Brähmig, the city's father for many years . Lausitzer Rundschau , July 25, 2014
Interview with Horst-Dieter Brähmig . Lausitzer Rundschau, July 25, 2014. Published on YouTube (8:39 minutes)

Individual evidence

↑ Horst-Dieter Brähmig is dead. (No longer available online.) In: SZ-Online . June 28, 2017, archived from the original on November 28, 2017 ; accessed on June 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Horst-Dieter Brähmig, Hoyerswerda (Konrad-Zuse-Stadt) . Kurt-Pauli-Stiftung, Remagen-Rolandseck, accessed on June 30, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Brähmig, Horst-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German local politicians (SED, PDS)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hoyerswerda
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 2017
Place of death	Hoyerswerda

[1] Horst-Dieter Brähmig is dead. (No longer available online.) In: SZ-Online . June 28, 2017, archived from the original on November 28, 2017 ; accessed on June 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Horst-Dieter Brähmig, Hoyerswerda (Konrad-Zuse-Stadt) . Kurt-Pauli-Stiftung, Remagen-Rolandseck, accessed on June 30, 2017.