Werner Kirschner

Werner Kirschner (born March 21, 1938 in Lobendau , Czechoslovakia ; † April 23, 2019 in Bad Schandau ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and from 1972 to 1994 a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Life

Werner Kirschner visited after the expulsion of the family from Czechoslovakia in 1945, first the elementary school in Sebnitz in Saxony, starting in 1951, the elementary school and high school in Hamburg-Rahlstedt and 1955 the Free Waldorf School in Benefeld in Walsrode, where in 1959 he passed the matriculation examination . He studied at the Technical Universities in Karlsruhe and Braunschweig , passed his diploma examination in mechanical engineering on a subject from process engineering and subsequently worked as a research assistant and scientific assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig until 1972.

He was politically involved in the Young Socialists' working group. He also took on various functions in the SPD and became chairman of the Sports Committee of the SPD in Lower Saxony. From 1968 to 1983 he was a member of the council of the municipality of Vechelde , including eleven years as mayor of the municipality. From 1986 he was a member of the Ilsede municipality council . From 1972 to 1974 he was a member of the district assembly in the Braunschweig district and, due to the regional reform in Lower Saxony, from 1974 onwards, he was a member of the district assembly in the Peine district . There he took over the chairmanship of the SPD parliamentary group.

From October 4, 1972 to June 20, 1994 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament (7th to 12th electoral period), during this time he took over the office of deputy chairman for the SPD parliamentary group from June 9, 1978 to November 22, 1983 .

After leaving the state parliament, Kirschner worked until 2006 as managing director of Weka-Touristik GmbH , which he founded and based in Bad Schandau , which operated five hotels in Saxon Switzerland . In 2010 the company, in which Kirschner still held a 30 percent stake, went bankrupt.

Werner Kirschner died on April 23, 2019 at the age of 81 in Bad Schandau.

Public offices

Kirschner was a member of the supervisory board of Überlandwerke Braunschweig, member of the supervisory board of the non-profit vocational training and employment company Landkreis Peine mbH, member of the advisory board of Landesgas, member of the board of the Braunschweigische Landschaft and member of the association assembly of the greater Braunschweig region until its dissolution in 1978.

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. 196.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerstin Wosnitza: Werner Kirschner has died. Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung , April 30, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019.