Wilhelm Dopatka

Wilhelm Dopatka (born September 9, 1919 in Angermund , † July 23, 1979 in Leverkusen ) was a German politician of the SPD . He was Lord Mayor of Leverkusen from 1954 to 1961 and from 1964 to 1979 .

Life

Hall in honor of Wilhelm Dopatka, which was named after his name until 2009 and is now called the Ostermann Arena .

After elementary school , Dopatka attended business school and completed an apprenticeship in import and export trade.

Before 1933 Dopatka was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth . In 1945 he joined the SPD. From 1937 to 1945 he was a soldier and returned from the war wounded several times. He became a full-time trade union secretary and managing director of IG paper and ceramics in Leverkusen. From 1948 to 1951 and 1957 to 1961 he was the local chairman of the SPD in Leverkusen, having previously been local Juso chairman from 1946 to 1948 ; from 1946 to 1948 and then again from 1951 he was a member of the Leverkusen City Council until his death, where he was SPD parliamentary leader from 1951 to 1954. From 1955 to 1965 he represented constituency 73 in the German Bundestag , in which he replaced the late Gerhard Lütkens .

In April 1979 Dopatka was awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The “ Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle ”, in which the Bayer Giants Leverkusen , the basketball team of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , played, was named after him until February 2009 .

Web links

• Dopatka, Wilhelm . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Daecke bis Dziekan] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 231–232 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 212 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Dott Heinrich Lützenkirchen	Lord Mayor of Leverkusen 1954–1961 1964–1979	Heinrich Lützenkirchen Heinrich Lützenkirchen