Winfried Brandenburg

Winfried Brandenburg

Winfried Brandenburg (born September 12, 1939 in Berlin ) is a Saarland lawyer and local politician.

Vita

After his birth in Berlin, Brandenburg spent his childhood in Pomerania. After the end of the war, his family moved to St. Ingbert in the Saarland , where his mother was from. There he passed his Abitur and then studied law . After passing his state examination , he specialized in the field of social law . He received his doctorate at the University of Saarland for Doctor of Law and worked subsequently as a judge at the Social Court and Social Court, where he remained until 1984, in Saarbrücken . In 1976 Brandenburg was appointed a member of the Saarland Constitutional Court. Together with the lawyer Günther Hahn , Brandenburg published a commentary compendium on the first four books of the Social Security Code (1978).

Local politics

Brandenburg became a member of the SPD in 1960 , and from the mid-1960s he actively worked with the Young Socialists . In 1968 he was elected to the St. Ingbert city council as a member of the SPD parliamentary group, later he took over the chairmanship of his parliamentary group. He was also a member of the regional executive committee of the Saarland SPD.
In 1984 he was elected Lord Mayor by the parliamentary groups of the SPD and FDP and in June 1984 succeeded the CDU Lord Mayor Werner Hellenthal. In 1994 Brandenburg was confirmed in office for another ten years by a majority of the city council (SPD, Greens, Free Voters). In 2004, after reaching the age limit, he resigned from office, from which he was the only Lord Mayor to date to be retired with the official " Big Zapfenstreich ".

Focus of work

In the 20 years as St. Ingbert's Lord Mayor, Brandenburg was able to develop its hometown sustainably as a business and cultural location. The city acquired the reputation of a "secret cultural capital of the Saarland" with a considerable quality of life. An important impetus for the cultural development of St. Ingbert was the realization of the internationally active Museum St. Ingbert , which he brought to life in 1987 together with Clemens Lindemann, District Administrator of the Saar-Palatinate District, as part of the newly established Albert Weisgerber Foundation . The restructuring of the former industrial city of St. Ingbert from coal and steel to a modern production and service location was the work of Brandenburg and the city council factions that supported it. In particular, the long-term rededication of brownfield sites into modern commercial areas benefited St. Ingbert's prosperous development. Particular successes were the relocation of a SAP location (600 employees) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology (150 employees) as well as the further development of the global company Festo (over 2000 employees), each with highly qualified jobs.

Brandenburg is married and has two children. Today he lives in St. Ingbert and Berlin.

literature

• Winfried Brandenburg and Günther Hahn: Basic features of social law. The first four books of the Social Security Code. Vahlen, Munich 1978. (Learning books for economics and law) ISBN 3800606941
• Winfried Brandenburg: Investigations into the treatment of procedural formal requirements in recent jurisprudence. A contribution to the changed position of the courts towards formal legal provisions. [Dissertation]. Saarland University, Saarbrücken 1969.
• Winfried Brandenburg (Ed.): 175 years of the city of St. Ingbert - the last 25 years. Westpfälzische Verlagsdruckerei, St. Ingbert 2003, ISBN 3-9807001-4-3 , ISBN 3-9807001-4-3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winfried Brandenburg / Günther Hahn: Basic features of social law (see "Literature")
2. ^ Krause, Manfred: childhood memories on the pew . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Ingbert edition) v. 14./15. August 2010, p. C2
3. ↑ Manfred Schetting: He gave St. Ingbert a face. (Saarbrücker Zeitung of July 3, 2004)
4. ↑ A city full of life. (Saarbrücker Zeitung from February 19, 2003)
5. ↑ The industrial upheaval went well. (Saarbrücker Zeitung from June 28, 1999)