Liane Lang

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Liane Lang , b. Kuwilsky (born April 10, 1935 in Teuchern ; † April 30, 2020 in Halle (Saale) ), was a German politician ( SED ). From 1970 to 1990 she was the mayor of Halle-Neustadt .

Life

Lang, the daughter of a miner, finished eight years of school in 1949 and began training as a tractor driver . After her training, she was delegated to the state youth school and was then a specialist instructor in the FDJ district management in Weißenfels . Lang was in 1953 member of the SED and studied from 1954 to 1957 at the German Academy of Law and Political Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg with the conclusion diploma lawyer . From 1958 she worked first as the "Secretary of the City Council ", from 1964 as Mayor of Wolfen . On April 8, 1970, Lang was elected mayor of Halle-Neustadt, succeeding Walter Silberborth . At that time she was the youngest mayor of the GDR . At the same time, Lang was a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Halle-Neustadt.

Halle-Neustadt was to become a large city with 100,000 inhabitants during the GDR era. At the time of the fall of the GDR in 1989, however, only about 90,000 people lived in the urban area. On February 12, 1990, Lang and the Mayor of Halle, Eckhard Pratsch, announced the merger of their two cities. Lang's tenure ended with the incorporation of Halle-Neustadt into Halle on May 6, 1990.

Awards

literature

  • Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Bitterfeld district leadership. Commission for Researching the History of the Local Labor Movement (Ed.): This is how we fought for a better life. Illustrated book on the history of the workers' movement in the Bitterfeld district 1945–1965 . Bitterfeld [1965], p. 92.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 185.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, youngest incumbent in the GDR Ex-Lord Mayor of Halle-Neustadt died on May 8, 2020
  2. ^ Obituary notice , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Halle, May 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 9, 1970, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Long, liana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuwilsky, Liane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Teuchern
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2020
Place of death Halle (Saale)