Rüdiger Hitzigrath

Rüdiger Hitzigrath (* 27. December 1929 in Berlin , † 22. March 2017 ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life

Hitzigrath's father, Helmut Hitzigrath, was a parish priest in Berlin-Moabit . Rüdiger Hitzigrath attended a humanistic grammar school. After graduating from high school, he studied law from 1948. In 1956 he passed the first state examination. From 1958 he worked as a freelancer for the Federal Insurance Agency for salaried employees and until 1981 as an independent insurance agent . He joined the SPD Berlin in 1963 and in 1967 became a district councilor in the Wilmersdorf district . From 1971 he sat in the Berlin House of Representatives for ten years . 1977-1980 he was deputy parliamentary group leader of his party. On November 6, 1981, he succeeded the resigned MP Marie Schlei in the German Bundestag as a member of the Bundestag in Berlin and stayed there until the Bundestag election in 1983 . With the death of Jürgen Brinckmeier in 1984, Hitzigrath then moved up as a member of the European Parliament , of which he was a member until 1989. In 2008 he was awarded the title of City Elder of Berlin by the Senate of Berlin .

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 346.
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. 186.

personal data
SURNAME	Hitzigrath, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdA, MdB, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	22nd March 2017
Place of death	Berlin