Rudolf Büch

Rudolf Amandus Alwin Büch (born November 28, 1904 in Hamburg ; † November 14, 1992 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and Senator from Hamburg.

Life

Büch was a trained mechanical engineer and later also a foreman. From 1931 he worked as a foreman at a mineral oil company in Hamburg.

Büch joined the SPD in 1921. He was in the first freely elected citizenship for his party from October 1946 . Until 1974 he was a member of the Hamburg parliament . In addition to his mandate in the city council, he took over the office of building senator under three different mayors. He worked under Max Brauer from 1950 to 1953 and again from 1957 to December 1960 together with the future mayor Paul Nevermann in this post. During his first term in office, he was also second mayor of the city with Nevermann. During the term of office of Mayor Nevermann, he was from January to December 1961, together with Wilhelm Drexelius , and from December 1961 to June 1965, together with Peter-Heinz Müller-Link , also building senator, which he was together with Müller-Link from June 1965 to April 1966 was also back.

After his time as senator, Büch was president of the Hamburg regional association of the German Red Cross from 1966 to 1988. In 1976 he was awarded the Mayor Stolten Medal . He was also honorary president of the Hamburg Red Cross and was also a holder of the DRK badge of honor . He died a few days before his 88th birthday and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hamburger Abendblatt of November 20, 1992, p. 22.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Tormin : The history of the SPD in Hamburg 1945 to 1950 , [Forum Zeitgeschichte Volume 4], results publishing house, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3879160287 , (page 374, annotated register of persons)