Klaus Löhe

Klaus Löhe (born October 17, 1944 in Berlin ; † February 2, 2015 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ) from Berlin.

Life

After completing an apprenticeship at the Deutsche Bundespost , he worked for the judiciary until 1971, joined the SPD and moved to the Berlin Senate Department for Family, Youth and Sport as an employee of the central social work practice team “Schutzhilfe”. The popular, practice-oriented left senator Ilse Reichel-Koß (SPD) took on a role for him as a professional and political role model. From 1975 to 1978 Löhe studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice in Berlin and graduated with a degree in administrative management (FH). With Wolfgang Heckmann , he later set up the department of the state drug commissioner.

Political career

1979 Klaus Löhe was elected to the district assembly of Berlin-Neukölln . His focus there were the youth welfare committee (chairman) and the school committee. He held these functions until his election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1985 . There he heads the committee for youth and family as chairman and was active in the school and main committee. In the Berlin elections in 1989 he was able to win his constituency in Berlin-Britz directly. Löhe took over the role of youth policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group. In the first general election in Berlin on December 2, 1990 , he won another mandate for the Berlin House of Representatives .

As a member of parliament, he and Senator Anne Klein (AL) set up the department “for same-sex life issues” during the 1985 to 1989 legislative period. In 1991 he was appointed State Secretary in the Senate Department for Youth and Sport under the direction of Senator Thomas Krüger . During this phase, Löhe co-designed the implementation law for the KJHG Berlin. After the elections on October 22, 1995 , he continued his work under the leadership of Senator Ingrid Stahmer . During this tenure, as State Secretary for Sports, he campaigned for the renovation of the Olympic Stadium and against the construction of a pure football stadium. After the 1999 election , the new SPD Education / Youth / Sports Senator Klaus Böger put him into temporary retirement.

From 2004 to 2008, Klaus Löhe handled the large youth welfare foundation under public law, “Jugendbuildingwerk”, on behalf of the Senate Administration.

In 2010, Löhe left the SPD.

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. 244 f.