Manfred Bille

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Manfred Bille (born May 28, 1937 in Luckenwalde ; † May 25, 2010 in Großbeeren ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was Lord Mayor of Potsdam in 1989/90 .

Life

Bille, son of a blacksmith , went to the elementary school and an apprenticeship as a telecommunications engineer at the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1954 as a sergeant to transport police . From 1958 to 1960 he worked as a driver. In 1962, at the age of 25, he became the youngest operations director in the history of the Potsdam district, head of VEB Kraftverkehr in Neuruppin . In 1963, Bille joined the SED. In 1969 he completed a correspondence course in economics at the technical college for traffic and industrial engineering as an engineering economist .

From 1970 to 1975 Bille was commissioner for motorway construction and from 1975 to 1979 director of the office for traffic planning in Potsdam. In 1976 he became head of the traffic and communications department at the Potsdam District Council. In 1978, Bille completed another distance learning course with a diploma in political science . From 1986 to 1989 he was Deputy Chairman of the Potsdam District Council.

From May 1989 to May 1990 Bille was Lord Mayor of Potsdam , succeeding Wilfried Seidel . In the course of the turnaround and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Bille lost his office in 1990 and resigned from the SED. From 1990 until shortly before his death in 2010, Bille was the board representative for cooperation with trade associations and the transport associations of Iveco Magirus AG .

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Individual evidence

  1. Erhart Hohenstein: Emergency brake of the SED: Seidel had to go In: Potsdamer Latest News , Potsdam May 22, 2009.
  2. Erhart Hohenstein: Last SED Mayor in Potsdam: “Never wound the end of the GDR” In: Potsdamer Latest News , Potsdam May 6, 2015.
  3. Erhart Hohenstein: SED Lord Mayor Manfred Bille died In: Potsdamer Latest News , Potsdam June 17, 2010.