Horst Grabert

Horst Grabert (12 December 1927 – 10 October 2011) was a German politician and diplomat.

Horst Grabert
Grabert in 1974
Head of the Chancellery
West Germany
In office
18 December 1972 – 15 May 1974
ChancellorWilly Brandt
Walter Scheel (acting)
Preceded byHorst Ehmke
Succeeded byManfred Schüler
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
West Berlin
In office
14 March 1971 – 18 January 1973
PresidentWalter Sickert
Succeeded byUrsula Maletzke
Senator of Federal Affairs of Berlin
West Berlin
In office
9 July 1969 – 18 December 1972
GovernorKlaus Schütz
Preceded byDietrich Spangenberg
Succeeded byDietrich Stobbe
Personal details
Born(1927-12-12)December 12, 1927
Berlin, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 2011(2011-10-10) (aged 83)
Berlin, Germany
Political partySPD
Alma materTechnical University of Berlin
Occupation
  • Politician
  • diplomat

Early life and education

Grabert's father worked as an accountant after serving as a front officer in the First World War. Although Grabert, like his Jewish mother, was baptized as a Protestant in 1939, he had to leave the Steglitz high school in 1942. After an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman, he was sent to a labor camp in 1944. Without a high school diploma, he was able to study at the Technical University of Berlin from 1946 after a special examination and became a qualified civil engineer in 1952.[1]

Career

In 1952 Grabert joined the West Berlin Senate Administration and became a government construction trainee at the Senator for Construction and Housing. In 1955 he passed the building assessor exam and subsequently rose from building officer to senior building officer, building director and, in 1963, senate director. From 1969 to 1973 he was Senator for Federal Affairs and at the same time the official representative of Berlin at federal level.[2]

Awards
Country Year Decoration Ribbon
 Austria1973Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
 Austria1979Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
 Germany1984Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Source:[3]

References
  1. "Horst Grabert". Munzinger Biografie (in German). 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  2. Heymanns, Carl (1970). Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Teilausgabe Bund, Band 70 (in German). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  3. "Bundeskanzler Anfragebeantwortung" (PDF). Parlement Österreich (in German). 23 April 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

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