Otto Theuner

Otto Karl Theuner (born August 3, 1900 in Görlitz , † January 29, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

Born in Görlitz, he moved to Berlin in 1920, where he also lived during the “Third Reich”. In 1946 he became head of the personnel and administration department in the then Magistrate of Greater Berlin and, as a close employee of Friedrich Haas (CDU), Senate director for finances in the government of Ernst Reuter . In 1955 he was appointed Berlin Senator for Transport and Enterprises by the new Governing Mayor Otto Suhr (SPD) . He continued in this position after Willy Brandt took office . In 1965 he took over the interior department. He kept these offices under Brandt's successor Heinrich Albertz until April 1967, where he was also mayor in the end. After the Berlin election in 1967 he withdrew from the Senate for reasons of age, but remained a member of the Berlin House of Representatives until 1971 , to which he belonged in 1951 and from 1955 to 1971. In 1967 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Otto Karl Theuner died in Berlin in 1980 at the age of 79. His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

See also

• Magistrate Reuter (Greater Berlin) - Magistrate Reuter (West Berlin) - Senate Suhr - Senate Brandt I - Senate Brandt II - Senate Brandt III - Senate Albertz I

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst : Biographical handbook of the Berlin city councilors and representatives 1946-1963. Landesarchiv Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , page 261f.

Web links

• Otto Karl Theuner - biography at the Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 589.