Kurt Grobe

Kurt Grobe (born December 23, 1920 in Braunschweig , † June 11, 1987 in Laatzen -Grasdorf) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Grobe attended elementary school for four years and then switched to the Herzogliche Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig. Between 1935 and 1938 he successfully completed a commercial apprenticeship at the August Honigbaum furniture store, also in Braunschweig. After his apprenticeship, he worked as a commercial clerk in his training company until the outbreak of war. In the Second World War he was a soldier in the war between 1939 and May 1945. He fell into American captivity and was released as a sergeant in the artillery. Between June 1945 and January 1946 he worked as a worker in the Ruma coffee factory in Rethen , but in February 1946 he became self-employed as an insurance salesman.

Since 1957 Grobe was the first chairman of the local SPD association in Gleidingen . Since 1962 he became the first chairman of the Hildesheim subdistrict in the SPD. In 1961 he became an honorary administrative judge and in 1963 a member of the supervisory board of the Kleinsiedlungsgesellschaft mbH of the Hildesheim-Marienburg district. Since 1965 he was chairman of the board.

Public offices

Grobe became councilor of the community of Gleidingen in 1952 and deputy mayor in 1956. He was a member of the district council in the Hildesheim-Marienburg district . In 1961 he became district administrator. Grobe was elected a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the fifth and sixth electoral periods from May 20, 1963 to June 20, 1970. After the administrative and territorial reform in 1974, Grobe was mayor of the city of Laatzen until 1980.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 129.