Werner Kammann

Werner Kammann (born September 17, 1919 in Cuxhaven , † November 20, 1985 in Cuxhaven) was a German politician ( SPD ). From 1967 to 1982 he was a member of the state parliament of Lower Saxony for four electoral terms .

biography

Kammann attended elementary and trade school and then completed an apprenticeship as a grocer. He graduated from a technical school and was a certified accountant and worked in Hamburg as a branch manager in the food trade. Kammann then worked as a tax auditor in the financial administration. During the Second World War he served as a soldier from 1940 to 1945 and was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front. After the war he went into business for himself in 1946 as a hotel clerk in Cuxhaven- Duhnen . From 1966 he was branch manager of a Bremen housing company in Cuxhaven. Later he was a board member of several companies in the region.
Kammann was married and had two children.

politics

Kammann joined the SPD in 1945 and was elected to the Council of Cuxhaven a year later, where he was chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 1956. He first became a senator and was later from 1967 to 1968 and again from 1972 to 1976 mayor of the city. In the sixth electoral term he was elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1967, to which he belonged until the end of the ninth. During this time he was from September 14, 1970 to June 20, 1978 Chairman of the Committee for Port and Shipping.

Honors

• Merit Cross on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
• Werner-Kammann-Strasse in Cuxhaven was named after him.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 189.