Willi Oesterlein

Willi Oesterlein (born September 15, 1909 in Untertürkheim near Stuttgart , † April 23, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Oesterlein attended a primary school in Cannstatt and did an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic from 1924 . He worked in Berlin since 1930 and founded a company for automotive instruments in Leipzig in 1933 . At the same time, Oesterlein became a member of the Confessing Church . In 1937 he took his master's degree as a precision mechanic. In the Second World War he was placed as indispensable (UK) as he was a specialist in measuring instruments .

In 1945 Oesterlein first became a co-founder of the CDU in Leipzig and a member of the board of the CDU Saxony . In May 1948, however, he had to flee to West Berlin . Since Johannes Müller was elected as a member of the Bundestag in 1961, Oesterlein moved up to the Berlin House of Representatives . In the Berlin election in 1963 , he was elected to the district council of the Charlottenburg district. In 1971 he returned to the House of Representatives, to which he was a member until 1981. In the 1979 election he was senior president of the House of Representatives.

tomb

In 1981 Oesterlein was honored as the city elder of Berlin . He is buried in the Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin-Westend . His grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

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. 202-203 (331 pages).

personal data
SURNAME	Oesterlein, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Untertürkheim near Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	April 23, 1992
Place of death	Berlin