Johannes Seidel

Johannes Seidel (born November 15, 1917 in Chemnitz , † July 26, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Johannes Seidel attended a grammar school and passed the Abitur . He first studied law and political science at the University of Göttingen , but had to do the Reich Labor Service and was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Most recently he was first lieutenant in the reserve and was seriously wounded.

After the Second World War , Seidel continued his studies in Göttingen in 1945 and joined the SPD the following year. In 1949 he completed the first state examination in law and worked in the planning and management of the economy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1959 he fled to West Berlin and received his doctorate a year later as Dr. jur. Seidel then studied at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and passed the 2nd state examination in law in 1964. Already in the Berlin election in 1963 he was elected to the district assembly (BVV) in the district of Charlottenburg , but since he received a position in the legal office of the district office of Charlottenburg, he left the BVV in September 1964. In February 1965 he moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives , as Gottfried Wurche was elected to the district councilor for building and housing in the Tiergarten district. Seidel resigned from parliament in March 1967.

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. 346 f.