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Horst Milde

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Horst Milde
Milde in 2000
President of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
In office
1990–1998
Preceded byEdzard Blanke [de]
Succeeded byRolf Wernstedt [de]
Personal details
Born(1933-04-06)6 April 1933
Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia, Germany
Died29 March 2023(2023-03-29) (aged 89)
Political partySPD
EducationUbbo-Emmius-Gymnasium
OccupationPolitician

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.

Life and career

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Milde attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium [de] in Breslau 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]

He 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]

Milde died on 29 March 2023, at age 89.[3][5]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Horst Milde". Munzinger Archiv (in German). 1998. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Horst Milde". Lower Saxony (in German). 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Ehemaliger Landtagspräsident Horst Milde ist tot" [Former state parliament president Horst Milde is dead]. Volksstimme (in German). dpa. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Unsere Schirmherren" (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Niedersachsens ehemaliger Landtagspräsident Horst Milde gestorben". NDR. 29 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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