Karlheinz Poredda

Karlheinz Poredda (born January 12, 1920 in Lyck , Masuria ; † March 18, 2012 ) was mayor of the Hipstedt community in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district . He achieved national fame because, at 91 years and 50 years of service, he was the longest-serving and oldest incumbent mayor in Germany.

Poredda comes from Neumalken near Lyck in Masuria. He took part in World War II as a soldier and was taken prisoner. In 1948 he came to Hipstedt after being a prisoner of war and has been involved in local politics ever since .

In 1961 he was elected mayor. At first Poredda was a member of the Federation of Expellees and Disenfranchised , but in the 1970s he co-founded the Free Citizens' Voting Association (WFB), for which he also sat in the district parliament and in the council of the Geestequelle municipality .

At the end of October 2011 he withdrew from public life. On February 6, 2013 he was posthumously appointed honorary mayor of the Hipstedt community.

Poredda was married and had a son.

Honors

• 1988: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1992: Medal of Honor of the City and Community Day, Lower Saxony State Association
• 2001: Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit on ribbon
• 2009: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Web links

• "Politics is his elixir of life". In: NDR.de . April 8, 2011, archived from the original on April 12, 2011 . 
• Wieland Bonath: Exit remains uncertain. In: Rotenburger-rundschau.de . December 31, 2009 . 
• Frauke Siems: "Creating something keeps you lively". In: Bremervörder Zeitung . January 16, 2010, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 . 
• Frauke Siems: Hipstedt mourns Karlheinz Poredda. In: Bremervörder Zeitung. March 20, 2012, archived from the original on February 17, 2013 .