Werner Dolata

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Werner Viktor Petrus Dolata (born February 23, 1927 in Brandenburg an der Havel , † December 26, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1981 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Werner Dolata grew up in a Catholic family; his father worked for Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke AG . As a schoolboy he headed a banned Catholic scout group from 1942, most recently as parish youth leader, before he was drafted in February 1944.

He later worked as a dentist and had been a member of the CDU since 1954. From 1967 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives . On June 16, 1981, he succeeded Richard von Weizsäcker as a member of the German Bundestag after the latter had taken over the office of Governing Mayor of Berlin . Dolata also belonged to the CDU parliamentary group in the following 10th parliamentary term from 1983 to 1987.

Gravestone in the St. Matthias cemetery

The avowed Catholic was involved, among other things, in the Diocesan Assets Management Council, the highest financial body of the Archdiocese of Berlin , and was a long-standing parish council of his parish St. Matthias . On December 20, 2015, Pope Francis appointed him Commander of the Order of St. Gregory for his diverse commitment as a Catholic layman . Archbishop Heiner Koch of Berlin presented him with the certificate of appointment a few days before his death.

From the late 1980s he published several contemporary historical publications as an author and editor , including some autobiographical works .

He found his final resting place in the cemetery of the St. Matthias Congregation in Berlin.

Honors

Fonts

  • Chronicle of a youth. Catholic youth in the Diocese of Berlin 1936–1949 , Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-87065-514-3 .
  • Time signals. Sprüche und Kontraste , Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87554-257-6 .
  • The fight for the stone gate tower in Brandenburg - A documentary report. In: Bernd Böger / Michael Kröselberg (eds.): The power grew in the hidden - Catholic youth between Elbe and Oder 1945–1990 , Altenberg 1993, pp. 77–100, ISBN 3-7761-0020-6 .
  • Letters from Germany: From World War I to reunification 1914 to 1990 , Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1292-5 .
  • Operational process "black chapel". Catholic Church and Catholic youth of the diocese of Berlin in the sights of the Stasi. Monitoring and influencing by the Ministry for State Security of the GDR, MfS - Line XX / 4 . Self-published, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024010-2 .
  • The spade over! at the age of 16 to the RAD; 1944/45; Compulsory labor service and military service. Self-published, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-386-2 .

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. 121.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 152-153.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Förner: Archdiocese of Berlin mourns Werner Dolata. In: press release. Archdiocese of Berlin , December 27, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Werner Dolata obituary , Der Tagesspiegel , December 30, 2016
  3. ^ Stefan Förner: Gregorius Order for Werner Dolata . Zenit , December 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Dolata, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dolata, Werner Viktor Petrus (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdA, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2015
Place of death Berlin