Erich Giessner

Erich Giessner (born May 10, 1909 in Gera ; † March 8, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Gießner did a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as a retail salesman. In 1925 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and was a member of the SPD from 1928. In 1928 he became a full-time administrative employee in the Central Association of Employees (ZdA), in which he also took on a number of other honorary functions. In 1929/30 Gießner studied at the German School of Politics .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Giessner was dismissed. Initially unemployed, he soon found a job with an insurance company that worked for him in the following years. Even if Gießner was not actively involved in the resistance struggle against the Nazi regime, he was close to opposition circles. In this context, he is also said to have been detained for a week. During the Second World War he was drafted in 1940, and at the end of the war he survived as a Soviet prisoner of war .

From 1946 Gießner worked in the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) in Berlin, in order to become a member of the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) in 1948 . From 1958 to 1972 he was the regional association leader of the German Employees' Union (DAG). For many decades, Giessner was a member of the representative assembly of the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees (BfA).

As early as February 17, 1955, he was a successor member of the Berlin House of Representatives , since Georg Stücklen (1890–1974) had resigned as a district councilor. Gießner was a member of this parliament for 20 years.

Gießner was honored with the Ernst Reuter plaque in 1973.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 104 (331 pages).
• Siegfried Mielke (Ed.) With the collaboration of Marion Goers, Stefan Heinz , Matthias Oden, Sebastian Bödecker: Unique - Lecturers, students and representatives of the German University of Politics (1920-1933) in the resistance against National Socialism. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-032-0 , p. 90 f. (Short biography).

Web links

• SPD Berlin - biography