Rudi Pietschker

Rudi Pietschker (born January 24, 1917 in Charlottenburg near Berlin ; † April 21, 1999 in Berlin) was a German politician ( SPD ) and district mayor in the Kreuzberg district .

Rudi Pietschker was the son of a long-distance train conductor and attended middle school . He did an apprenticeship as a printer and attended the vocational school for graphic arts in Berlin-Kreuzberg. He joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), the Friends of Nature Youth in Germany and the Jungbanner . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Pietschker did illegal work against the Nazi regime. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and then became a prisoner of war .

After the Second World War , Pietschker returned to Berlin in 1947 and worked as a youth carer in the Wilmersdorf district and in Kreuzberg. In 1950 he joined the SPD. From 1952 to 1953 he was chairman of the Berlin Youth Association . In 1953 he became a district youth worker in Kreuzberg and finally in 1963 head of the youth welfare office in the district. In the same year Pietschker was in the Berlin election in 1963 in the Berlin House of Representatives elected, but resigned in February 1965 from the Parliament, since he was elected District Councilor for Health in Kreuzberg. During his tenure as district councilor, the new building for the Am Urban Clinic was built. From 1971 to 1973 he was chairman of the SPD Kreuzberg. In 1975 he was elected district mayor of Kreuzberg, in 1981 he left office.

Pietschker was honored with the dignity of the City Elder of Berlin in 1985 .

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. 291.