Max Reutter

Max Reutter (born August 24, 1920 in Berlin ; † January 12, 1988 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a city councilor and deputy mayor of Berlin as well as a member of the GDR regional chamber .

Life

Reutter, son of a working-class family, learned the profession of lathe operator . He later qualified as a mechanical engineer.

After the end of the war, Reutter joined the CDU and worked for the Berlin magistrate . From 1950 to 1952 he was the municipal director and head of the housing and social affairs department . From 1952 to 1954 he was chairman of the Berlin-Köpenick district association of the CDU. From 1952 to 1955 Reutter acted as chairman of the Berlin district association of the CDU. He was a long-time member of the main CDU board. From 1955 to 1958 he was a district councilor in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . Then he was Deputy Mayor of Berlin until 1981 and was responsible for transport, road and water management (from 1963) and for international connections in the communal area (from 1971). From 1953 to 1986 Reutter was a city councilor in Berlin and from 1954 to 1958 a member of the regional chamber.

From 1982 to 1988 he was also the deputy chairman of the Central Committee of People's Solidarity , member of the Presidium of the League for Friendship of Nations and Vice President of the German-Nordic Society .

Fonts

• The redesign of the Berlin city center . In: Gerhard Fischer (Ed.): 15 years of the GDR. 15 years of cooperation with the Christian Democratic Union . Berlin 1964, pp. 218-220.
• The new Moscow . In: Soviet country, Freundesland. The Soviet Union experienced a delegation from the main board and the CDU Volkskammer faction in the 60th year after the Great October Socialist Revolution . Berlin 1977, pp. 27-29.
• Christian Democrats in building our capital . In: Peace of the city and well-being of its citizens. Progressive Christian traditions from 750 years of Berlin . Union-Verlag, Berlin 1987, pp. 135-141.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959), in silver (1964) and in gold (1985)
• Silver Star of Friendship of Nations (1980)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 285.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 708.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reinhard Schreiner: Names and dates from six decades of party work. The chairmen and managing directors of the CDU state, district and district associations since 1945 (PDF; 1.0 MB). Archive for Christian Democratic Politics, Sankt Augustin 2012, p. 67.
2. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin: C Rep. 114 - Magistrat von Berlin, Verkehr Department ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin: C Rep. 122 - Magistrat von Berlin, Area International Connections in Local Area ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 2, 1985, p. 4.
5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 2, 1980, p. 4.