Wolfgang Denda

Wolfgang Denda (* 1939 ) is a German engineer with a doctorate in communications equipment and was Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1990 to 1992.

Wolfgang Denda was the first mayor of the Oderstadt after the fall of the Berlin Wall . From 1960 he worked in Frankfurt and was active in the city's semiconductor plant . From 1987 he worked at the Institute for Semiconductor Physics (today's Research Institute Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics ). After reunification, he became a member of the SPD and was involved in local politics.

During his tenure from May 1990, Denda was able to revive Messe Frankfurt with the construction of an exhibition center and the European University Viadrina was reopened in 1991. With the regaining of municipal self-government , the city also received a new administrative structure and extensive renovation work on the urban infrastructure could begin.

After a failed attempt to vote out, Wolfgang Denda resigned as Lord Mayor in 1992 and worked for Stadtwerke Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH until 1997. From 1997 to 2006 he worked as technical manager and from 2003 as managing director at FAKS Frankfurter Antennen- und Kommunikationsservice GmbH. From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the supervisory board of Frankfurter Wasser- und Abwassergesellschaft mbH.

Denda has lived in Wolfsburg with his wife since 2006 . You have two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Denda: Greetings from the Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) , September 6, 1991
2. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung : Wolfgang Denda retires on December 24, 2005.