Hanno Drechsler
| Hanno Drechsler | |
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| Mayor of Marburg | |
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In office 11 September 1970 – 31 December 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Georg Gaßmann |
| Succeeded by | Dietrich Möller |
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24 March 1931 Schönheide, Saxony |
| Died | 4 January 2003 (aged 71) Marburg, Hesse |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | SPD |
| Spouse(s) | Gisela Drechsler |
| Children | Wolfgang Drechsler |
| Alma mater | University of Marburg |
| Profession | Teacher |
Hanno Drechsler (24 March 1931 – 4 January 2003) was the Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg, Germany between 1970 and 1992, and the instigator of its restoration after urban renewal; he was also an important Social Democratic politician and political scientist.
Hanno Drechsler went to school in Saxony, where after High School he studied to become a teacher and was certified for doing so on all levels, becoming very early the Principal of the Oberschule in Falkenstein. Because of political conflicts with the SED regime (such as the toleration of students who were members of a church), he and his wife fled East Germany in 1955, and settled in Marburg, West Germany. Here, Drechsler studied again, at the University of Marburg (1955-1961), mostly Political Science, History, and the German language, and became a student and then assistant of the political scientist Wolfgang Abendroth who was the main representative of political science of the "Frankfurt School". In 1962, he received his PhD with a thesis on the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAP), and became an expert on the small parties "between" social democrats and communists during the Weimar Republic.
Afterwards, he became "(Ober-)Studienratim Hochschuldienst" (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer or Assistant Professor, but with tenure, at the University of Giessen's Political Science Department. He remained active in Marburg municipal and Hesse politics as a social democrat, where he soon held positions in the City Parliament. In 1970, he was elected – after declining to become the president of the newly founded – Lord Mayor of the City of Marburg, a position he held until his retirement due to health reasons in 1992, drawing in the end popular support of well over 75% of the citizens.
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