Horst Grabert

Horst Grabert (12 December 1927 – 10 October 2011) was a German politician and diplomat.

Horst Grabert
Grabert in 1974
Head of the Chancellery West Germany
In office 18 December 1972 – 15 May 1974
Chancellor	Willy Brandt Walter Scheel (acting)
Preceded by	Horst Ehmke
Succeeded by	Manfred Schüler
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin West Berlin
In office 14 March 1971 – 18 January 1973
President	Walter Sickert
Succeeded by	Ursula Maletzke
Senator of Federal Affairs of Berlin West Berlin
In office 9 July 1969 – 18 December 1972
Governor	Klaus Schütz
Preceded by	Dietrich Spangenberg
Succeeded by	Dietrich Stobbe
Personal details
Born	(1927-12-12)12 December 1927 Berlin, Germany
Died	10 October 2011(2011-10-10) (aged 83) Berlin, Germany
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	Technische Universität Berlin
Occupation	Politician diplomat

Early life and education

Grabert's father worked as an accountant after serving as a front officer in the First World War. Although Grabert, like his Jewish mother, was baptized as a Protestant in 1939, he had to leave the Steglitz high school in 1942. After an apprenticeship as an architectural draftsman, he was sent to a labor camp in 1944. Without a high school diploma, he was able to study at Technische Universität Berlin from 1946 after a special examination and became a qualified civil engineer in 1952.^[1]

Career

In 1952 Grabert joined the West Berlin Senate Administration and became a government construction trainee at the Senator for Construction and Housing. In 1955 he passed the building assessor exam and subsequently rose from building officer to senior building officer, building director and, in 1963, senate director. From 1969 to 1973 he was Senator for Federal Affairs and at the same time the official representative of Berlin at federal level.^[2]

Awards

Country	Year	Decoration	Ribbon
Austria	1973	Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Austria	1979	Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
Germany	1984	Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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