Rudolf Heyden
Rudolf Heyden (born January 16, 1920 in Stettin ) was Lord Mayor of Rostock from 1952 to 1953 .
Life
After attending elementary and secondary school , Rudolf Heyden completed an apprenticeship as an export-import merchant in Stettin from 1937 to 1939 . His professional career began in 1939 as a technical employee at the Julius Böhm company in Stettin. In 1940 Heyden was drafted into the Wehrmacht. In 1944 he was wounded in a hospital in Rostock.
After the end of the Second World War , he worked from June to October 1945 as an accountant in the housing company Neue Heimat in Rostock. In 1945 Rudolf Heyden joined the KPD and was already deputy chairman of the Rostock branch in October 1945. In November and December 1945 he attended a course at the KPD state party school in Mecklenburg in Kühlungsborn . From November 1945 he took over the post of First Secretary of the KPD city leadership in Rostock. After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946, Heyden was a member of the SED, and from April 1946 to April 1947 he was chairman of the Rostock SED city leadership.
In May 1947 Rudolf Heyden was appointed to the city council for trade and supply in Rostock. He was a city councilor and chairman of the SED faction in the city council. In 1950 he studied at the Administration Academy in Forst Zinna , graduating with a degree in political science. From May 1952, Heyden was City Councilor for the Interior, before he succeeded Max Burwitz in the election of Mayor of Rostock in July 1952 .
As early as August 1953, he became acting head of the main department of local organs of the state at the Prime Minister of the GDR and moved to East Berlin . He later became the main consultant in the State Secretariat for Internal Affairs and Deputy State Secretary for Affairs of the Local Councils of the GDR.
As deputy district mayor of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Rudolf Heyden was a member of the main committee of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities .
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Heyden, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Meeting points" well prepared . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 5, 1967, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heyden, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician and mayor of Rostock |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |