Siegfried Sorge

Siegfried Sorge (born February 5, 1917 in Lebus , Brandenburg province ; † April 8, 1995 ) was a German local and state politician of the SPD and FWG .

education and profession

Siegfried Sorge grew up in Lebus on the Oder after his mother settled there as a war widow during the First World War . He attended the humanistic Friedrichsgymnasium in Frankfurt (Oder) . After the Second World War he moved to Hesse and studied law and economics in Marburg from 1946 to 1949 . Sorge received his doctorate on December 19, 1951 as Dr. jur. He wrote his dissertation on "The legal status of the works council under the Hessian works council law".

From May 1, 1954, Sorge was a consultant at the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in Wiesbaden. On February 1, 1959 he assumed the office of the district administrator of the district Biedenkopf by his predecessor Regierungspräsident a. D. Friedrich Bachmann and held it until its dissolution in 1974. In 1974 the newly formed Marburg-Biedenkopf , he was the Acting District Administrator Burghard Vilmar Acting District Councilor and was followed by January 1975 a full-time until June 1981 District Administrator of the district.

District Administrator

During Siegfried Sorge's tenure, he particularly promoted the idea of European partnerships at the local level. The friendship with the South Tyrolean community of Lüsen was strengthened; For example, children from Lüsen were invited to spend their holidays in the district's own Baltic Sea tent camp near Glücksburg on the Holnis peninsula . Another European connection was promoted by Sorge: on June 24, 1977, the district council decided on the official partnership with the English district of Huntingdonshire . The partnership documents were signed on July 27, 1977 by Sorge in his function as district administrator and by the district council chairman Walter Troeltsch .

Strengthening rural communities was another focus of local politics; it took place in the 1960s / 1970s, in particular through the construction of village community houses .

Party politics

In protest against the regional and administrative reform in Hesse , he left the SPD and switched to the Free Voting Community, whose Hessian state chairman he became. Sorge was the FWG's top candidate for the Hessian state election on October 8, 1978.

From March 1982 to November 1986, Sorge was a deputy chairman of the FWG's federal executive board.

Awards

In 1973 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.
On June 13, 1975 he was awarded the Dr. Johann Christian Eberle Medal of the Hessian Savings Banks and Giro Association.
On February 1, 1979, Sorge received the plaque of honor of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district on the occasion of his 20th anniversary as District Administrator.
On March 7, 1990, he received the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.