Josef Schröer

Josef Schröer (born April 28, 1927 in Hamm , Westphalia , † November 20, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Josef Schröer was the son of an official and attended a business school . In 1944 he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht .

After the Second World War , Schröer did an apprenticeship with the Deutsche Bundesbahn . From 1947 he studied at the Dortmund Social Academy and became a full-time trade union secretary in the British zone of occupation . At the same time he was a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ), but resigned in 1951. Schröer studied at the University for Work, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven and from 1954 at the German University for Politics in West Berlin . He joined the SPD and became state chairman of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) in Berlin. From 1955 to 1957 he was personal advisor to the SPD state and parliamentary group leader Franz Neumann . Schröer then worked as a consultant at the Neukölln district office . Since Franz Karl Meyer was elected to the district councilor in the Kreuzberg district in November 1961 , Schröer moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives . From 1969 to 1990 he worked for the Berlin State Center for Political Education .

Schröer was married for 62 years, from this marriage a daughter was born.

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 245 (331 pages).