Horst Milde | |
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President of the Landtag of Lower Saxony | |
In office 1990–1998 | |
Preceded by | Edzard Blanke |
Succeeded by | Rolf Wernstedt |
Personal details | |
Born | Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia, Germany | 6 April 1933
Died | 29 March 2023 | (aged 89)
Political party | SPD |
Education | Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium |
Occupation | Politician |
Horst Milde (6 April 1933 – 29 March 2023) was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served as president of the Landtag of Lower Saxony from 1990 to 1998.
Milde attended the Elisabet-GymnasiumBreslau from 1943 to 1945. After World War II, his family was expelled, and settled in Leer, Lower Saxony. He completed school there to 1951 at the Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium,[1] and then worked for the City of Leer.[2]
inHe joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1956.[3] He was a member of the district parliament (Kreistag) from 1964 to 1973, deputy Landrat of the district from 1965 to 1968, and mayor of Leer from 1968 to 1973. He was a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony first from 1967 to 1974, and again from . He served as its president from 1990 to 1998.[3] He worked towards a merge of the northern States in Germany, and supported an exchange to his hometown Breslau and reconciliation with Poland.[2][3]
Milde was from 1986 to 1991 mayor of Oldenburg. He was influential in the founding of its university.[2][3] He was patron of the Ronald McDonald House Charities, running the Ronald McDonald House for children with severe illness and their families, from 2003.[4]