Wilhelm Dumstrey

Wilhelm Dumstrey (born March 25, 1899 in Oranienburg , Niederbarnim district ; † November 28, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German educator and politician. From 1956 to 1964 he was the district mayor of the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf .

Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

Life

Dumstrey was born the son of the proofreader Franz Dumstrey. Attending a secondary school was followed by training at a teachers' seminar and at the commercial college in Berlin, which he graduated with a diploma in 1925. In 1919 he entered the primary school service, was a teacher at a vocational school from 1925 to 1929 and from 1933 to 1939, and a teacher at a technical school from 1929 to 1933 and 1940 to 1945.

Even before the time of National Socialism , Dumstrey was politically organized in the DDP until its dissolution . After the war ended in 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU in Köpenick and was a city ​​councilor for Berlin from 1946 to 1950 .

Professionally, between 1945 and 1952, he worked in the Berlin school inspectorate, initially as a senior school councilor in Köpenick and from 1947 as a high school councilor in the state school office. In 1952 he moved to the Senate Department for Popular Education as head of the physical exercise department. In 1955 he was appointed district councilor for public education in Zehlendorf and was district mayor of Wilmersdorf from 1956 to 1964.

In addition, he followed from 1949 to 1958 as a lecturer for constitutional law and industrial law a teaching position at the German University of Politics .

He was President of the Berlin Regional Group of the German Olympic Society , Chairman of the European Culture Committee Berlin and Deputy Chairman of the European Union Berlin.

After his death he was buried in an honorary grave of the city of Berlin at the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

Honors

• 1966: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• January 17, 1973: Appointed City Elder of Berlin
• Citizen's Medal of the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin

Fonts

• 1948: The revolution of 1848 in contemporary reports, speeches, declarations, memoranda and documents. (Co-editor)

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 88 (331 pages).

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Dumstrey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wilhelm Dumstrey at berlin.de (PDF file; 49 kB)