Jürgen Brinckmeier

Jürgen Brinckmeier (born April 16, 1935 in Plauen ; † November 28, 1984 in West Berlin ) was a German SPD politician and journalist .

Life

Brinckmeier was editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Berlin Voice from 1970 to 1973 . In the Berlin election in 1971 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, two years later he became parliamentary group manager there. He was also elected in the following election in 1975 , although he resigned in April 1976 because he became Senate Director ( State Secretary ) in the Senate Department for Home Affairs. From 1980 to 1983 he was chairman of the SPD Neukölln .

As a result of the Garski affair , the governing mayor Dietrich Stobbe wanted to change the Stobbe Senate in January 1981 , Brinckmeier was to become a Senator for the Interior. But the majority that was still necessary at that time for the election of senators in the House of Representatives did not come about, and Rainer Papenfuß , Jürgen Egert and Peter Ulrich also failed. Stobbe had to resign, and Hans-Jochen Vogel formed a new senate .

Brinckmeier became a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in July 1984 . He was a member of the Committee on External Economic Relations and a deputy member of the Committees on Transport and Budgetary Control. But a few weeks later he died. His successor was then Rüdiger Hitzigrath .

Jürgen Brinckmeier was married to Marianne Brinckmeier , the former Vice-President of the House of Representatives and Chair of the Broadcasting Council of the SFB . He lived in Berlin-Britz .

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. 105 f.

Web links

• Entry on Jürgen Brinckmeier in the Members' database of the European Parliament