Ursula Besser
Ursula Besser (born January 5, 1917 in Berlin as Ursula Roggenbuck , † December 19, 2015 in Hamburg ) was a CDU university politician in Berlin .
Career
Before the Nazi " takeover " of power, Ursula Besser's father was head of personnel for the Berlin police; In 1934 he joined the Wehrmacht as an officer. He was arrested by the Soviet NKVD in 1945 , imprisoned for years, and finally sentenced to ten years in prison in 1950 in the notorious Waldheim trials . These experiences left a lasting mark on his daughter.
As a widowed mother of two children (her husband died in the Second World War ), Ursula Besser studied foreign studies, German and Romance studies between 1943 and 1949 and graduated with a doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1945 she joined the CDU. Better worked as a translator, private tutor, and publicist. During the student revolt in 1968, she joined the emergency community for a free university .
From 1967 to 1985 (5th to 9th electoral term ) she was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and chairwoman of the local science committee as well as a member of the boards of trustees of the Free University of Berlin , the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin .
As a Christian, Besser was involved in the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg .
Positions
Better was the signatory of the new right appeal “Against the dismissal of conservative soldiers”, which was published in two versions in September 2001 in the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . Furthermore, Besser was the first signatory of the Stop Link Trend campaign launched in 2010 .
Honors
- 1973: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1981: Large Federal Cross of Merit
- 1990: City Elder of Berlin
- Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin
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. 88 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Besser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Article on the 95th birthday of January 2012 (accessed July 3, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Gisa Bauer: Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany. History of a conflict of principles. Göttingen 2012. ISBN 978-3-525-55770-9 . P. 579.
- ↑ http://www.jf-archiv.de/archiv01/381yy36.htm
- ↑ http://www.jf-archiv.de/archiv01/401yy55.htm
- ↑ Obituary notice Ursula Besser. In: online edition. Der Tagesspiegel , January 24, 2016, accessed on January 25, 2016 .
Adolf Wuschick (1946, 1948) | Wilhelm Laverrenz (1950) | Fritz Hausberg (1954) | Siegmund Weltlinger (1958, 1963) | Paul Kochan (1967) | Lothar Schulz (1971) | Ulrich Biel (1975) | Willi Oesterlein (1979) | Ursula Besser (1981) | Ernst-August Poritz (1985, 1989) | Klaus Franke (1990, 1995) | Peter Schuster (1999) | Wolfgang Jungnickel (2001) | Uwe Lehmann-Brauns (2006, 2011) | Bruni Wildenhein-Lauterbach (2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Better, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roggenbuck, Ursula (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university politician (CDU), MdA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th December 2015 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |