Willi Blume (politician, 1913)

Willi Blume (* 9. July 1913 in Leimbach ; † 29. January 1995 in Salzgitter ) was a German teacher and SPD - politician . From 1968 to 1981 he was Lord Mayor of the City of Salzgitter.

Life

Blume was born in the Mansfeld region. Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Braunschweig , where he spent his childhood and passed the Abitur at the Lessing School . Due to his work with the socialist youth association Falken , he was initially not admitted to the education course under the National Socialists and first had to do the Reich Labor Service as a volunteer . He graduated from the Braunschweig University of Education in 1939 and got his first job. During the Second World War he was called up for military service. Blume became a teacher in Beddingen in 1945 . In 1950 he went to the school in Lichtenberg , before he became rector of the elementary school "An der Krähenriede" in Salzgitter- Lebenstedt in 1953 .

Political career

Blume, a member of the SPD since 1946, was appointed to the Salzgitter City Council in 1960. He received the post of Second Mayor in 1965 and was elected Lord Mayor after the local elections on September 29, 1968. In the run-up to the major regional and administrative reform in Lower Saxony , the viability of the still young city of Salzgitter was discussed from the mid-1960s. From 1968 on, together with City Director Günther Paslat , Blume rejected possible dissolution models for the city of Salzgitter in relation to the expert commission ( Weber commission). The city remained unchanged, the villages of Üfingen and Sauingen were incorporated on March 1, 1974 as the 30th and 31st districts. An inner-city restructuring took place in 1972, when the 29 districts with local councils and mayors were abolished and seven localities with local councils and mayors were established. Blume initiated the annual “Salzgitter Talks” between the city and what is for them the most important employer, Salzgitter AG . He was also on supraregional bodies, such as B. active in the school committee of the German Association of Cities . Sister cities were established with Swindon , Imatra and Créteil during Flower's tenure . After the local elections in 1981, Rudolf Rückert (CDU) became the new mayor. Blume was elected first mayor, from which office he resigned in August 1988. Until 1991 he was councilor of the city of Salzgitter, where he died in 1995 at the age of 81.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (September 1, 1977)
• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (January 31, 1982)
• Honorary Citizen of Salzgitter (1983)
• Willi-Blume-Weg in Thiede (Salzgitter)

literature

• Brage bei der Wieden , Henning Steinführer (ed.): Office and responsibility. Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944939-10-0 , pp. 388-390.
• Jörg Leuschner : The new town of Salzgitter. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte, a millennium review of a region . Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , pp. 1079-1100.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Leuschner: The new town of Salzgitter , in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte Millennium review of a region. Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , p. 1098.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Federal President's Office

predecessor	Office	successor
Gustav Stollberg (SPD)	Mayor of Salzgitter 1968–1981	Rudolf Rückert (CDU)