Rainer Papenfuß

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Rainer Papenfuß (born February 7, 1941 in Berlin ; † June 30, 2002 ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and a synodal of the Evangelical Church in Berlin .

Life

Papenfuß studied law from 1960 at the Free University of Berlin . After the first state examination in law, he studied economics , followed by the second state examination in 1969. He was a lawyer from 1970 and worked until 1972 as a research assistant in the SPD parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives .

Papenfuß was a member of the SPD since 1967. When he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1971 , he was elected to the district assembly in the Reinickendorf district, and the following year he moved up to the House of Representatives, as Ursula Siemens had left.

As a result of the Garski affair , Dietrich Stobbe wanted to change the Stobbe Senate in January 1981 , and Papenfuß was to become Senator for Finance. But the majority that was still necessary at the time for the election of senators in the House of Representatives did not come about, and Jürgen Brinckmeier , Jürgen Egert and Peter Ulrich also failed. Stobbe had to resign, and Hans-Jochen Vogel formed a new senate . Papenfuß became head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery for five months , but in the 1981 Berlin election there was a change of power, Richard von Weizsäcker formed the new CDU Senate .

In October 1981, as a synodal member of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, he was named by Bishop Martin Kruse, following the initiative of Weizsäcker for a 'peaceful solution', to be "a representative in the conflict over squatting ." After many negotiations, he suggested on March 12, 1982 in his report the organization Netzwerk Selbsthilfe (Network Self-Help) to “establish a carrier model” for squatted houses, since the network “offers the seriousness that is necessary for a carrier who depends on the support of the Senate.” After numerous vicissitudes, the Stattbau Sanierungsgesellschaft mbH , which from November 1983 onwards renovated and legalized 13 houses in Kreuzberg with the squatter groups and residents.

On May 19, 1984, the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (West Berlin) "noted that the social conflict over the squatting [...] could largely be defused through the mediation of the Evangelical Church in Berlin."

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. 284.

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Individual proof

  1. Quotations in: Stattbau informs , Volume 2, Berlin 1984, pp. 22 ff and 33.