Klaus Kilimann

Klaus Kilimann (born October 11, 1938 in Ortelsburg , East Prussia ) is a former German SPD politician. From 1990 to 1993 he was Lord Mayor of Rostock .

Life

Klaus Kilimann was born the son of a railroad worker and attended elementary school in his hometown until the end of the Second World War and the escape from East Prussia. There followed school years up to graduation in 1956 in the new home Neukloster . Kilimann began studying physics at the University of Rostock in 1956, which he completed in 1961 with the title of graduate physicist. He then completed postgraduate studies at the Lomonossow University in Moscow , before he started working at the University of Rostock from 1963, first as an assistant at the Mathematical Institute, from 1964 at the Physics Institute, where he received his doctorate in 1966. From 1970 to 1979 he worked as a senior assistant. He completed his habilitation in 1978 in the field of theoretical physics with the thesis Two-Particle States in Fermi Systems with Coulomb Interaction . From 1980 to 1990 he worked as an associate lecturer. From 1982 onwards he worked for three years at a university in the capital of Nicaragua, Managua , where he helped establish the training of physicists.

In 1989 Klaus Kilimann became a member of the New Rostock Forum and worked on the Justice Committee as part of the Rostock Round Table . In January 1990 he joined the SDP , which later became part of the SPD . On May 31, 1990, Kilimann was elected Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock to succeed Christoph Kleemann . After the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen , he resigned on December 3, 1993 and, after a period of unemployment, worked in various consulting projects for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Saint Petersburg , Moscow and Kyrgyzstan before he retired in 2005 went. Klaus Kilimann lives in Rostock.

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Kilimann, Klaus . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature about Klaus Kilimann in the state bibliography MV
• Klaus Kilimann in the matriculation portal of the University of Rostock

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Kilimann: German-German Relations in Sandinista Nicaragua , in: Erika Harzer, Willi Volks (Ed.): Aufbruch nach Nicaragua , Ch. Links, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-525-6