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Dietrich Stobbe
Dietrich Stobbe (25 March 1938 – 19 February 2011) was a German politician from Weepers, East Prussia. He served as Mayor of West Berlin from 2 May 1977 till 23 January 1981. From 1 November 1978 till 31 October 1979 he was also President of the Bundesrat.
Stobbe was born in Weepers, and was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
He died in Berlin on 19 February 2011 at the age of 72 after long illness.
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a resounding victory of the CSU (Christian Social Union of Bavaria), he himself gained the best result for any SPD politician in Bavaria after the Second World War. His popularity also showed itself in the General Elections of 1976, when he alone of all the SPD Munich candidates did not lose his Munich North constituency to the CSU.
A new challenge arose in 1981. Dietrich Stobbe stepped down as Mayor of Berlin, and Hans-Jochen Vogel was asked to be his successor and take charge of a deeply divided Berlin