Willy Henneberg

Willy Henneberg (born May 7, 1898 in Berlin ; † September 17, 1961 there ) was a longtime Berlin SPD politician.

Honorary grave, Potsdamer Chaussee 75, in Berlin-Nikolassee

Henneberg went to school in Berlin-Kreuzberg . After his apprenticeship in electrical engineering in Berlin (1912-1916), he was a soldier until the end of the First World War . After the First World War he returned to the profession he had learned and passed the master craftsman examination in 1922 and the final examination as an engineer at the Gaußschule Berlin three years later . He then worked for the electrical installation company Brause, which he took over in 1937 and rebuilt after its complete destruction in 1945.

Political career

Willy Henneberg joined the SPD in 1922. After the Berlin election in 1948 , he became a city councilor and three years later a member of the Berlin House of Representatives , whose president he was unanimously elected on March 20, 1958.

When the House of Representatives met on September 17, 1961 to elect the Berlin MPs for the fourth German Bundestag , elected on the same day , Henneberg, aged 63, collapsed during his opening speech. The doctor who was called could only determine his death. After a solemn state funeral, Henneberg was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery. The grave is one of the honor graves of the State of Berlin .

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. 120 (331 pages).

Web links

Commons : Willy Henneberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Brigitte Grunert: Jubilee: When the MP Henneberg dropped dead while giving a speech. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 11, 2001, accessed November 17, 2015 .
↑ WILLY HENNEBERG . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1961 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Henneberg, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), MdA
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 1961
Place of death	Berlin

[tagesspiegel-193356-1] Brigitte Grunert: Jubilee: When the MP Henneberg dropped dead while giving a speech. In: tagesspiegel.de . January 11, 2001, accessed November 17, 2015 .

[spiegel-43366595-2] WILLY HENNEBERG . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1961 ( online ).