Horst Katzor
Horst Katzor (born September 7, 1918 in Lanz , Lauenburg i. Pom. , † December 2, 1998 in Essen ) was a German engineer and politician ( SPD ).
Live and act
Horst Katzor was born the son of a master tailor. After attending grammar school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter, then attended the engineering school in Stettin and passed the engineering examination in Königsberg in 1944 .
After he came to Essen with his wife and daughter in 1945 , he worked as a civil engineering engineer and federal railway inspector. He joined the union of railway workers in Germany , of which he became district manager in 1961.
Horst Katzor joined the SPD and was elected to the sub-district executive in 1948; from 1958 to 1982 he was subdistrict chairman. From 1952 he was a member of the Essen City Council, where he headed the SPD parliamentary group from 1961 to 1964. He was appointed mayor in 1964 under Lord Mayor Wilhelm Nieswandt . From 1969 he was Lord Mayor of Essen. For health reasons, Katzor decided not to run again in 1983 and then left office in 1984.
During his term of office, the fourth, today's town hall , which he used as the first mayor, was built. Before that, he did his job in the provisional town hall, the Amerikahaus Ruhr on Kennedyplatz , because Essen initially had no town hall after the old town hall was demolished in 1964.
Beyond the city limits, he represented the interests of the city in the association assembly of the municipal association of the Ruhr area and in the city council of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Quote from the obituary notice of the SPD parliamentary group in the Essen city council:
"[...] [...] gained recognition and appreciation across party lines as well as a remarkable popularity among the population thanks to his factual, always the well-being of the people in this city in the center and his high integration ability."
Honors
- AWO Essen sponsorship award
- 1982: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1986: Ring of Honor of the City of Essen
- 1994: Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen, Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 180 f .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice of the SPD parliamentary group in the council of the city of Essen and the SPD sub-district of Essen; In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung from December 8, 1998
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
Theodor Wilhelm Varnhorst (1804–1808) | Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (1808–1811) | Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot (1811–1813) | Heinrich Arnold Huyssen (1813–1818) | Anton Klein (1818–1821) | Johann Conrad Kopstadt (1821–1833) | Bertram Pfeiffer (1833–1847) | Johann Heinrich Horstmann (1847–1858) | Ernst Heinrich Lindemann (1859–1868) | Gustav Hache (1868–1886) | Erich Zweigert (1886–1906) | Wilhelm Holle (1906–1918) | Hans Luther (1918–1922) | Franz Bracht (1924–1932) | Heinrich Schäfer (1933) | Theodor Reismann-Grone (1933–1937) | Just Dillgardt (1937–1945) | Hugo Rosendahl (1945–1946) | Heinz Renner (1946) | Gustav Heinemann (1946–1949) | Hans Toussaint (1949–1956) | Wilhelm Nieswandt (1956–1969) | Horst Katzor (1969–1984) | Peter Reuschenbach (1984–1989) | Annette Jäger (1989–1999) | Wolfgang Reiniger (1999–2009) | Reinhard Pass (2009–2015) | Thomas Kufen (since 2015)
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| SURNAME | Katzor, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Essen (1969–1984) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lanz , district of Lauenburg i. Pom. |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1998 |
| Place of death | eat |