Werner Stein (politician)

Werner Stein (born December 14, 1913 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † March 31, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ). The physicist and biophysicist was Senator for Science and Art for Berlin from 1964 to 1975.

Life

Stein studied physics in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main , where he followed his doctoral supervisor Marianus Czerny and did his doctorate on the properties of quartz in the infrared. In February 1946 he became an assistant to Robert Rompe at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and worked as a lecturer.

In 1946, Werner Stein's cultural timetable , a synchronic table on world history, has been published again and again to this day .

In the winter semester of 1949/50 he moved to the newly founded Free University in the western part of the city and became an assistant at Hans Lassen's Physics Institute . He completed his habilitation and founded the Institute for Biophysics .

He joined the SPD. In 1955 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives. In 1960, Stein earned attention and recognition in the state parliament and in the Berlin public as chairman of the committee of inquiry, which was supposed to clarify the circumstances under which the director Rudolf Noelte was dismissed without notice by the Volksbühne boss Siegfried Nestriepke in 1959 . The result of the investigation was not flattering for Nestriepke, he had to give up his post. Stein remained a member of parliament for five legislative terms and left the state parliament in 1975.

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In 1964 he was elected Senator for Science and Art at the suggestion of the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt . In 1969, under his leadership, a new Berlin Higher Education Act was created, which gave students and university staff a greater say. In 1973 he submitted a draft bill for the amendment of the Berlin University Act , which should give the professors more weight. After his time as a senator, Stein was a member of the broadcasting council of the Sender Free Berlin .

Stein was honored as the city ​​elder of Berlin . He is buried in the Schmargendorf cemetery. The grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honor grave .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst : Biographical handbook of the Berlin city councilors and representatives 1946–1963 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Vol. 14). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 253 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Stein in the catalog of the German National Library