Nils Ferberg

Nils-Walter Ferberg (born June 10, 1931 in Narva , Estonia , † November 17, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Nils Ferberg attended high school and worked as a farm worker at the end of World War II . He then went to high school and graduated from high school in 1953 . He first studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin economics , but switched to the German University of Politics and the Free University of Berlin , where he political science , economics and history studied. In 1953 Ferberg joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and two years later the SPD. He became a political scientist in 1957 and attended the London School of Economics . In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Graz for Dr. rer. pole.

In 1961 Ferberg was a brief teacher at the Heimvolkshochschule in Hustedt , but in the same year became director of the Otto Suhr Volkshochschule in Berlin-Neukölln . In the Berlin election in 1967 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but in March 1969 he resigned because the District Assembly in the Tempelhof district had elected him to the District Councilor for Popular Education. In the 1981 election Ferberg gave up the office of the district councilor and was re-elected to the House of Representatives. In addition to his parliamentary work, he was also a lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Work . In January 1989 he resigned from parliament.

Ferberg received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Wrongly forgotten: Curt Swolinzky , 1887–1967 , In: 100 Years of the Labor Movement in Tempelhof , published by the Association for Heimatpflege, Heimatkunde, Geschichte und Kultur Tempelhofs, Berlin 1991, pages 137–140.

Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 137.