Manfred Pagel

Manfred Pagel (born January 25, 1929 in Berlin ; † November 22, 2018 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1975 to 1989 he was the district mayor of Berlin-Friedrichshain .

Life

Pagel, the son of a working-class family, experienced the bombing raids on Berlin as a child . He became a locksmith and trained as a train driver. At the age of 30 he became head of service at the Berlin Ostbahnhof .

Pagel became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and from 1961 worked in the Friedrichshain district as a district councilor, as the mayor's deputy for the interior and from April 1970 as the mayor's first deputy. On September 25, 1975, he was elected mayor of the city district to succeed Hans Höding .

Pagel qualified as a qualified engineering economist, was a district councilor for Friedrichshain and from 1976 to 1981 a member of the Berlin city council . After the local elections in the GDR on May 7, 1989 , after 14 years of service, he did not run for the office of mayor again for health reasons.

Pagel was married and had one daughter. He died at the age of 89.

Awards

• 1956 Honorary title " Honored Railway Worker of the German Democratic Republic "

Web links

• progress-film.de - The Eyewitness 1956/24 , film report "Express train locomotive No. 03 223", 2: 05–2: 50 minutes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin Ostbahnhof - Clear the route for the new! . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 14, 1959, p. 6.
2. ↑ From Berlin's town halls . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 26, 1975, p. 8.
3. ^ Friedrichshain: Heinz Borbach elected mayor . In: Neues Deutschland , May 31, 1989, p. 8.
4. ^ ND conversation with Manfred Pagel, Mayor of Friedrichshain . In: Neues Deutschland , August 15, 1987, p. 8.
5. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from December 1, 2018, p. 16.