Alfred Gertler

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Alfred Gertler (born January 13, 1913 in Dingelstädt ; † June 4, 2001 in Oelde ) was a qualified farmer and politician ( center ).

Gertler attended high school in Heiligenstadt . He completed an agricultural apprenticeship in the Rhineland, Westphalia and the province of Saxony (today Saxony-Anhalt). He then began studying agriculture in Jena, continued it in Bonn and finished it in Halle (Saale). After his agricultural diploma, he received his doctorate in natural sciences in 1938 with a study of the protein yield of forage crops in Central Germany. Gertler worked as a qualified farmer in Berlin, Dresden, Hanover and Münster (Westphalia). He was a soldier in 1941, 1942, 1944 and 1945.

Before 1933 he was politically active in the Center Party. In autumn 1946 he became a member of the executive committee of the German Center Party. He was elected a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first electoral period from April 20, 1947 to April 30, 1951. He was an assessor in the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 13, 1947 to April 30, 1951. He was also deputy chairman of the center parliamentary group from October 6, 1950 to April 30, 1951. From February 10, 1949 to April 30, 1951, he chaired the Committee on Health Care.

From May 1, 1951 to December 31, 1972, he worked for Farbwerke Hoechst AG in Münster , initially as head of the nitrogen and plant breeding office and later as head of the agricultural branch.

In 1948 Alfred Gertler reactivated the Catholic student union Hansea-Halle in the KV in Münster, which had been founded in Halle (Saale) in 1900 and was dissolved in 1936 by order of the National Socialists. From 1951 to 1969 he was chairman of the old men’s association of this connection.

Alfred Gertler was married and had five children with his wife Gertrud geb. von den Benken († 1986). The university professor and media producer Martin Gertler is his son.

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 117.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature by and about Alfred Gertler in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ English-language summary (accessed on January 13, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Gertler, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dingelstädt
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2001
Place of death Oelde