Peter Meyer (politician, 1935)

Peter Meyer (born December 11, 1935 in Magdeburg , † January 15, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Peter Meyer left the GDR in 1952 and emigrated to Los Angeles . There he attended high school in Van Nuys , where he graduated from high school in 1954. He then studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1958 he received a Bachelor of Arts in physics . That same year, Meyer returned to Germany, and then studied at the University of Bonn and in 1961 Diploma - physicist . In 1966 he received his doctorate as a nuclear physicist with the Dr. rer. nat. He became a physics and mathematics teacher in Berlin .

Meyer joined the SPD in 1976. In 1984 he was able to move up to the district assembly in the Wilmersdorf district . In the Berlin election in 1990 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, to which he was a member until 1999.

literature

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. 262.
People's Handbook of the House of Representatives, 12th electoral term, 1991–1996. Verlag Gebr. Holzapfel, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-921226-39-2 , p. 63.