Walter Sickert (politician)

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Walter Sickert (born February 2, 1919 in Hamburg ; † February 21, 2013 in Berlin ) was a longtime Berlin SPD politician.

Life

The trained locksmith was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and military service in the Navy in 1938 . After his release from British captivity in 1946/47, he was a member of the Berlin police. After courses at the adult education center and several federal schools of the German Federation of Labor and Social Law, he was appointed honorary labor and social judge in 1949, most recently at the Federal Labor Court in Kassel.

In 1950 Walter Sickert became a board member of IG Bau-Steine-Erden Berlin, in 1954 honorary chairman and in 1955 full-time managing director of DGB Berlin. In February 1960, Walter Sickert was elected by the regional conference of the DGB-Berlin as chairman of the DGB-Landesbezirks Berlin and kept this position until his age-related resignation in 1982.

Walter Sickert joined the SPD as early as 1948. In 1963 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, where he became deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in 1964 . On April 6, 1967, he was elected President of the House of Representatives. After the SPD was no longer the strongest parliamentary group for the first time in 1975, he resigned from office and took on the office of Vice President of the House of Representatives for another six years. In 1981 he decided not to run again for the House of Representatives and withdrew into private life.

Grave of Walter Sickert in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In 2002, Sickert, who was considered a right-wing social democrat, left the SPD after the governing mayor Klaus Wowereit had formed a coalition between the SPD and the PDS after the 2001 Berlin election . In January 2012 he rejoined the SPD.

Walter Sickert died just three weeks after his 94th birthday on February 21, 2013 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Honors

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Sickert on archiv.spd-berlin.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.spd-berlin.de  
  2. ^ Ex-DGB boss Walter Sickert has died . In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 22, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Obituary notice of the Berlin House of Representatives, Tagesspiegel of March 10, 2013, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Sickert, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionist and politician (SPD), President of the Berlin House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2013
Place of death Berlin