Klaus Burda

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Klaus Burda (born September 22, 1935 in Dresden ; † March 31, 2007 in Hemer ) was Mayor of Hemer for seven years between 1987 and 1994 .

Life

Burda spent his childhood in Wutha-Farnroda , Thuringia , until he left the GDR in the 1950s. In Marl , he began training as a chemical laboratory technician and signed up for the German Armed Forces in 1957 .

After two years with the army in Schleswig , he switched to the air force, which he left in the early 1970s. As a teaching officer, the lieutenant colonel was transferred to the Air Force Technical College in Iserlohn and from then on lived in the neighboring town of Hemer.

Shortly before his death, Klaus Burda, who spoke good Russian , had accepted a job as a travel companion for the Karl Theodor Molinari Foundation of the Bundeswehr in Moscow.

politics

After his arrival in Hemer, he joined the local SPD local association. In 1975 he moved into the city council for the first time, and two years later he was elected chairman of the Social Democrats. Klaus Burda kept this office until 1987 when he was appointed to succeed Hans Meyers as honorary mayor of Hemer. In the local elections in 1989 he was confirmed as "First Citizen".

A political focus of Klaus Burda was the town twinning with Doberlug-Kirchhain (Brandenburg) and Schtscholkowo (Russia), whose origins go back to the term of office of the SPD politician. As mayor, Burda also dealt with the withdrawal of the British army from the Hemeraner district of Deilinghofen and a crisis in the city administration, which is why the city director and the first alderman were dismissed from the entire administration. The missing city director was replaced by a full-time mayor after 1994. After the crisis within the city administration, Burdas SPD lost the majority in the city council in the local elections, so that his term of office ended and Doris Ebbing (CDU) became the new mayor of Hemer for a short time.

Klaus Burda remained deputy mayor for five years and was a member of the council until 2004. Until his death he worked as a knowledgeable citizen in various committees.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burda on Hemer's homepage
  2. ↑ a b "Big gap in the SPD: Klaus Burda is dead!", IKZ of April 3, 2007
  3. ↑ Friedrich Sirringhaus (ed.): The city. 1st edition, Göppingen 2002. ISBN 3-00-010026-1 .
  4. ^ "SPD parliamentary group as a mixed choir", IKZ of September 17, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Burda, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2007
Place of death Hemer , North Rhine-Westphalia