Albert Wappler

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Albert Wappler (born October 11, 1927 in Lichtenau , † August 15, 2002 in Chemnitz ) was a German politician ( SED ) and trade unionist . He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and chairman of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district committee of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB).

Life

Wappler, son of a Reichsbahn worker, completed a commercial apprenticeship between 1942 and 1944 in a company for fine brushes in Stützengrün and the higher commercial school in Eibenstock . From November 1944 to May 1945 he was in the Reich Labor Service and a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

From July 1945 to 1947 he worked as an industrial clerk. In 1945 he joined the SPD , in 1946 the SED and the FDGB. From 1948 to 1950 he was BGL Chairman of the consumer brush factory in Stützengrün. From 1948 to 1953 he was a member of the local party leadership of the SED and community representative in Lichtenau and from February 1950 to June 1952 an employee, from July 1952 to February 1955 district secretary of the National Front in Aue . In 1954/55 he attended the SED district party school in Karl-Marx-Stadt. From February 1955 to September 1959 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Freiberg and a member of the district council .

Between 1956 and 1962 Wappler completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" , which he graduated as a social scientist.

In 1956 he became a member of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt. From October 1959 to November 1967 he worked as secretary for agitation and propaganda and as head of the ideological commission of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt. From 1960 he was a member of the district committee of the National Council of the National Front and a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly, from 1969 a member of the National Council.

From November 1967 to November 1989 Wappler was chairman of the FDGB district committee in Karl-Marx-Stadt. From November 1968 to 1989 he was a member of the FDGB federal executive board, and from June 1972 to 1989 also a member of its executive committee. From 1976 to March 1990 he was - as a member of the FDGB parliamentary group - member of the People's Chamber of the GDR.

From February to April 1990 he worked as a member of the council of the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt and went into early retirement in May 1990. From 1990 he was a member of the Democratic Socialism Party (PDS). Wappler died at the age of 74.

Awards

literature

  • Secretariat of the People's Chamber (Ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 640.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 341.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 978.
  • Andreas Herbst : Wappler, Albert. In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
  • Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader. The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 505.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait in the stands on July 4, 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Wappler, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenau (Saxony)
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2002
Place of death Chemnitz