Heinrich Albertz

Heinrich Albertz was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party . He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from 1966 to 1967.

Heinrich Albertz was born in Breslau , in the Prussian province of Silesia, to the court preacher and consistorial councilor Hugo Albertz and his second wife Elisabeth, ne Meinhof. His elder half brother was the Resistance fighter Martin Albertz. Having obtained his baccalaureate in 1933, he went on to study theology at the universities of Breslau, Halle and Berlin. Under the Nazi regime, he maintained contact to circles of the banned Social Democratic Party. As a member of the Confessing Church opposing the Nazis, he showed solidarity with the imprisoned pastor Martin Niemller, was arrested several times and finally conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1941.

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