Horst Nickel (politician)

Horst Nickel (born March 23, 1918 in Elbing / West Prussia , † January 22, 1987 in Lüneburg ) was a Lower Saxony politician ( CDU ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Nickel attended elementary school from 1924 to 1928 and then switched to the Reformrealgymnasium (Heinrich-v.-Plauen-Schule) until 1937. Here he passed his Abitur. After completing his labor service from autumn 1937 to 1939, he attended the college for teacher training in Elbing . He passed the first teacher examination and got a first school position in Elbing. In 1939 he became a soldier in World War II and ended his participation as an officer in 1945. After the end of the war he was a leather worker and woodworker until he was reinstated in school in October 1946 in Lüneburg . Nickel became the rector of a primary school (the "Heiligengeistschule") in Lüneburg. For several years he was chairman of the staff council for teachers in Lüneburg and a member of the education and science union .

He had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937 ( membership number 5,084,928). Nickel had been a member of the CDU since 1945. Since 1961 he was councilor and from 1964 to 1972 mayor of the city of Lüneburg. He was chairman of the CDU council group and since 1972 alderman. From 1981 until his death he was mayor of Lüneburg. He was elected a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in the seventh to ninth electoral period from June 21, 1970 to June 20, 1982 and was chairman of the committee for youth and sport from September 16, 1974 to June 20, 1978.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 271–272.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period (PDF; 1.8 MB) p. 21