Walter Broeker

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Walter Bröker (born January 14, 1906 in Detmold ; † August 2, 1977 there ) was a German SPD politician and mayor of the city of Detmold.

Life

Walter Bröker joined the youth workers at the age of 16 and the SPD at 18. After the Second World War he was a member of the Detmold City Council from 1946. In 1964 Walter Bröker was elected mayor of Detmold as the successor of Bruno Kirchhof with the votes of all council groups . During his term of office, the construction of the city high school, the Realschule II and the indoor swimming pool fall , as well as the incorporation of the previously independent localities of Detmold on January 1, 1970. In 1972 he resigned as mayor for health reasons, his successor was his previous deputy Friedrich Vogt . He died in 1977, his urn was in the Old Cemetery buried on Blomberger Strasse.

Walter Bröker was honorary chairman of the Detmold local association of the SPD, chairman of the works committee of Stadtwerke Detmold, member of the building committee of the Lippische Landes-Brandversicherungsanstalt , on the board of trustees of the Hermann Monument Foundation, honorary member of the Detmold gymnastics club from 1860 , deputy head of the local association of the Lipps association Detmold involved in the AWO .

A street in Detmold has been named after Walter Bröker.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Faupel: The citizens of Detmold mourn their former mayor Bröker . In: Lippische Landes-Zeitung . August 3, 1977, p. 3 .
  2. ^ Obituaries in the Lippische Landes-Zeitung from August 3 and 4, 1977
personal data
SURNAME Broker, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Mayor of Detmold
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1977
Place of death Detmold