Wolfgang Glaeser
Wolfgang Glaeser (born July 9, 1940 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † March 28, 2020 there ) was a German politician ( NDPD , FDP ) and sports official.
Life
Glaeser was the son of a commercial clerk. He graduated from high school from 1946 to 1958 and studied sport and geography at the Humboldt University in Berlin (1962 state examination ). From 1962 to 1973 he worked at the children's and youth sports school in Brandenburg (Havel) as a swimming trainer and then from 1973 to 1985 as a geography and sports teacher at a polytechnic high school in his hometown.
In order to avoid membership canvassing by the SED , he became a member of the NDPD in 1966. Initially chairman of a residential area association, he was a member of the Brandenburg district committee from 1974. In 1985 he went full-time to the NDPD district executive and was its secretary from 1986 to 1990. From 1974 to 1989 he was also a city councilor for his party in Brandenburg. At the 14th Ordinary NPDP Party Congress on 20./21. In January 1990 he was surprisingly elected party chairman with 64%. However, his inaugural speech was not approved by parts of the membership due to nationalist tendencies, so that after parts of the party headquarters refused to follow him, he resigned on January 23, 1990. From February 11 until the cooperative accession to the Bund Free Democrats (BFD) on March 28, 1990 he was a member of the party executive committee of the NDPD, then a member of the federal executive committee of the BFD.
Glaeser has been a member of the FDP since 1990 and has been deputy district chairman in Brandenburg (Havel) for a long time. Since 1991 he was also a member of the state board of the FDP Brandenburg . Glaeser was chairman of the regional sports committee and, since 1992, also a member of the federal sports committee of the FDP.
From October 1991 to December 2001 he was the full-time managing director of the Karl Hamann Foundation in Brandenburg , then an honorary member of the foundation's board of trustees. Since 2002 he has been a consultant and head of the Brandenburg regional program of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Potsdam-Babelsberg . From 1991 to 2005 he was honorary managing director of the VLK -Landesverband Brandenburg.
In 1991 Glaeser was managing director of the Brandenburg State Swimming Association. In addition, from 1992 to 2005 he was chairman of the sports club SV Wasserfreunde Brandenburg.
Glaeser was married and has two children from his first marriage and a son from his second marriage.
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Glaeser, Wolfgang . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Wolfgang Glaeser . In: Christoph Wunnicke: The block parties of the GDR. Continuities and Transformation 1945–1990 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR , Volume 34). Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-934085-39-8 , pp. 130 f.
Web links
- Reform and the struggle for survival - Wolfgang Glaeser accompanied the NDPD through the turnaround ; Portrait of Wolfgang Glaesers, Prussian Landbote, 14th volume (from July 13, 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Glaeser , in: Christoph Wunnicke : The block parties of the GDR. Continuities and Transformation 1945–1990. Berlin 2014, p. 130 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaeser, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NDPD, FDP) and sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 2020 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |