Herman-Hartmut Weyel
Herman-Hartmut Weyel (20 July 1933 – 28 November 2021) was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he served as Mayor of Mainz from 1987 to 1997. Politics Weyel, an administrative lawyer, worked in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Justice from 1962 to 1982. He had been a member of the Mainz city council for the SPD since 1969. He took over the chairmanship of his party's parliamentary group in the city council in 1979, which he held until 1983. From 1 April 1983 to April 1987, he was an alderman of the city of Mainz. Until his death, Weyel was chairman of the association "Vereintes Mainz" (United Mainz), which strives for a reincorporation of the Right-Rhine districts of Mainz. Weyel was also an assessor in the executive committee of the SPD- Ortsverein '' Mainz-Oberstadt-Ebertsiedlung''. Lord Mayor of Mainz Herman-Hartmut Weyel ran together with Eckhart Pick to succeed the Lord Mayor Jockel Fuchs, who had resigned on 30 April 1987. ...
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Prenzlau
Prenzlau (, formerly also Prenzlow) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Uckermark District. It is also the centre of the historic Uckermark region. Geography The town is located on the Ucker river, about north of Berlin. Prenzlau station—which opened in 1863—is a stop on the Angermünde–Stralsund railway line. History Settled since Neolithic times, the Prenzlau area from the 7th century AD was the site of several gords erected by the Polabian Slavs. In the late 12th century, the Dukes of Pomerania had the region colonized by Low German settlers. Prenzlau itself, named after Slavic ''Premyslaw'' was first mentioned in 1187. It received town privileges by Duke Barnim I of Pomerania in 1234. When Duke Barnim signed the Treaty of Landin with the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg in 1250, Prenzlau was already a fortified town with walls and moats, four parish churches and a monastery. Together with Berlin-Cölln, Frankfurt and Stendal, it ...
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