Herbert Fechner
Fechner in 1970
2nd Lord Mayor of East Berlin
In office
7 July 1967 – 2 November 1974
Preceded byFriedrich Ebert Jr.
Succeeded byErhard Krack
President of the Federation of German Sailors
In office
1961–1990
Preceded byGünther Kley
Succeeded byWalter Kaczmarek
Personal details
Born(1913-08-27)27 August 1913
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died28 December 1998(1998-12-28) (aged 85)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySED

Herbert Kurt Fechner (27 August 1913 – 28 December 1998) was an East German politician who served as the second Lord Mayor of East Berlin from 1967 to 1974.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Fechner was born on 27 August 1913 in Berlin, the capital of the German Empire at the time.[5] His father was a carpenter. He joined the Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend (SAJ) or Socialist Workers' Youth (in English) in 1927 at the age of 13. He did various jobs as a child in Berlin from 1928 to 1933 and worked as a construction worker from 1933 to 1935, then as a telegraph construction worker until 1948. Fechner served for Nazi Germany during World War II. After the end of the war in 1945, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was a member until 1946 when the SPD and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) merged, then remained a member of the newly formed Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was also a member of the Free German Trade Union Federation. In 1951, Fechner became a member of the East Berlin city council (until 1961). He served as the Lord Mayor of East Berlin from 1967 to 1974. Additionally, Fechner was the President of the Federation of German Sailors for nearly thirty years, serving from 1961 to 1990.[6]

Fechner died on 28 December 1998 and was buried in Waldfriedhof Oberschöneweide in Oberschöneweide, Berlin.[7][4]

References

  1. ^ "An der Spitze Berlins". berlingeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  2. ^ Hoffmann, Hans-Joachim (1998). Berlin eine politische Landeskunde. Leske + Budrich. ISBN 3-8100-2219-5. OCLC 490650874.
  3. ^ Arndt, Melanie (2009). Gesundheitspolitik im geteilten Berlin, 1948 bis 1961. Böhlau. ISBN 978-3-412-20308-5. OCLC 432735859.
  4. ^ a b "Herbert Fechner - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  5. ^ "Herbert Fechner". akg-images. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  6. ^ Herbst, Andreas; Ranke, Winfried; Winkler, Jürgen (1994). So funktionierte die DDR Band 2 - Lexikon der Organisationen und Institutionen [This is How the GDR Worked Volume 2 - Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. ISBN 9783499163494.
  7. ^ "Herbert Fechner (1913-1998) - Find A Grave Memorial". Find A Grave. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
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