Wolfgang Eckert (politician)

Wolfgang Eckert (born September 7, 1912 in Berlin ; † September 23, 1994 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Wolfgang Eckert was a son of the machinist and union official Paul Eckert (1883–1964). He attended high school and passed his Abitur in 1931 . In 1928 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and in 1931 the SPD. He did an administration apprenticeship and was a candidate for the higher service in the Wedding District Office . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was dismissed for political reasons in 1933 and became a commercial clerk at the Japanese trading company in Berlin. In 1941 Eckert was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was then taken prisoner by the Soviets .

After the Second World War , Eckert became a commercial clerk in 1947 and from 1951 worked as an employee at the Berlin wage equalization fund . In 1956 he was recognized as a civil servant in the course of reparation and became head of the housing office in the Wedding District Office. Since Alfred Keil had died, Eckert moved to the Berlin House of Representatives in April 1967 , to which he was a member until March 1971. He later became head of the Wedding Heritage Museum.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 126.