Cologne - Kurt Uhlenbruch, one of the great men of Cologne SPD, is dead on the night of Saturday, the native of Cologne, died at the age of 62 years. The SPD lost a dedicated politician, the Cologne advocate a very respected lawyer who had been particularly committed to the labor law.
Whether the district court, the SPD or in the company of his longtime colleagues in the solicitor Venloerstraße - surfaced repeatedly in recent months the question: How is Kurt Uhlenbruch?
He fared badly. He lay in a ward for palliative medicine, for people with incurable diseases. Kurt Uhlenbruch suffered from pancreatic cancer. Doctors call this illness "the darkest chapter in medicine." No one could help him. Until recently supported by his wife Ursula, who never left his side.
Kurt Uhlenbruch, born 1946, born in Vingst, came in 1966, the year of his baccalaureate, the SPD in this book. Mid-70s, Young Socialist president, in a politically hot time later subdistrict chairman and chairman of the 1987 Cologne SPD. 14 years he remained the boss. If he had won 1999, the internal party ballot against Heugel - maybe he would have become mayor. In 2001 he handed the helm to Jochen Ott. Uhlenbruch sat another for art, culture and integration. "We will keep him an honorable remembrance," said Social Democratic Party leader Jochen Ott on Sunday.
Not without reason the office is adjacent to the DGB-house at the West Station. Uhlenbruch was a recognized employment lawyer. "The employees will lose a committed advocate of their interests," said Rossmann Witich for IG Metall.
