Horst Lange (politician)

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Horst Lange (born March 30, 1934 in Berlin ; † July 27, 2010 there ) was a Berlin SPD politician and pacifist .

Career

Horst Lange was a trained baker, but later worked as an educator and social worker. In 1952 he became a member of the SPD. In the SPD, he was active as a department chairman and member of the district committee of the Kreuzberg SPD. From 1967 to 1971 he was a district councilor in Kreuzberg. From 1971 to 1981 Horst Lange was a member of the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives . During this time he worked as vice-chairman of the Committee on Justice and later also as a member of the Committee on Security and Order.

Horst Lange, who has stood up for people in need who have no lobby in society, became a member of the pacifist International of Opponents of War (IDK) in 2005 and thus supported conscientious objectors and anti-military work against conscription, the military and war.

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 233.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel, August 29, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdA and pacifist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2010
Place of death Berlin