Roman Legien

Candidate poster for the House of Representatives election in West Berlin in 1985

Rudolf Roman Legien (born December 26, 1927 in Danzig ; † February 13, 2015 ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life

Roman Legien joined the CDU in 1951 and in the 1950s was an advisor to Berlin's mayor Franz Amrehn and deputy head of the office for all Berlin issues. During this time he published essays on the legal development in the GDR and on the four-power status of Berlin. In 1961 he became a health councilor in Charlottenburg .

Legien was elected district mayor of Charlottenburg in 1971 by a CDU-FDP coalition . After a second term as district mayor from 1975 to 1979, he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989 . His successor in office in the Charlottenburg district office was Eckard Lindemann . As a fighter against Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik, which he believed was a failure , Legien supported the right-wing Bund Free Germany from 1974 to 1976 .

From 1990 to 1993 he gave lectures at the University of Potsdam on local politics, the media and the merger of Berlin with Brandenburg . During this time he was also active as a consultant for the municipality of Wustermark in 1990/91 and from 1992 to 1993 co-managing director of the Güterverkehrszentren-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Brandenburg-Berlin mbH.

He had been married since 1961 and had three daughters and ten grandchildren.

Roman Legien died on February 13, 2015 at the age of 87. The funeral service and burial took place on February 27, 2015 at the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Fonts

• Strange things. A large essay . Tykve, Böblingen 1989, ISBN 3-925434-28-3 .
• The legal status of the Soviet sector . In: Office for General Berlin Issues (ed.): Berlin Soviet Sector - The political, legal, social and cultural development in eight Berlin administrative districts . Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1966.
• Four power agreements on Berlin - alternative solutions for the status quo? Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 1961.

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. 236.
• Little Schulze . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1974, p. 46 ( online ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Roman Legien in the catalog of the German National Library
• Speech for the 80th birthday of the district mayor Monika Thiemen
• Speech by Dr. Roman Legien on his 80th birthday

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 80th birthday of the district mayor a. D. Dr. Roman Legien. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, January 16, 2008, accessed on March 4, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Carsten Engelmann: Former Charlottenburg District Mayor Dr. Roman Legien passed away. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, February 24, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2015 . 
3. ^ General meeting November 27, 2006. (No longer available online.) CDU Community Association Wustermark, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 19, 2009 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
4. ^ CDU-FDP coalition in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 132 , June 10, 1971, p. 13 ( abendblatt.de [PDF; 1.9 MB ; accessed on March 4, 2015]).
5. ↑ Dear proportional representation . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1971, p. 31 ( online ).
6. ↑ Alexander Richter (Federal Press Spokesman and Editor of the Liberty Bell ): History of the VOS. (PDF) January 31, 2000, archived from the original on July 20, 2007 ; Retrieved January 18, 2009 . 
7. ^ Joachim Nawrocki: Reaction from the right . In: The time . No. 45/1974 , November 1, 1974, pp. 7 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 4, 2015]).
8. ↑ JN: Disagreed rights . In: The time . No. 46/1975 , November 7, 1975, pp. 13 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 4, 2015]).
9. ↑ As of January 2008
10. ↑ The family's obituary in the Berlin Tagesspiegel from February 22, 2015. Accessed December 11, 2019.