Joachim Niklas

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Joachim Niklas (born December 13, 1941 in Koenigsberg (Prussia) ) is a former German politician ( SPD ).

Niklas attended grammar school and graduated from high school in 1961 . He studied at the Free University in Berlin and graduated in 1966 with a degree in economics . In 1967 he became a research engineer at the Institute for Motor Vehicles at the Technical University of Berlin and joined the SPD in the same year. From 1969 Niklas worked as a research assistant at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and received his doctorate in 1976 as Dr. rer. pole.

1982 Niklas was elected chairman of the SPD Wilmersdorf and in the Berlin election in 1985 in the Berlin House of Representatives voted. In the following election in 1989 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. Since he was appointed to the board of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), he resigned from parliament in June 1994. His successor was then Sabine Brünig . In 2002 Niklas' contract with BVG ended.

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. 276 f.