Erich Krüger (politician, 1893)

Erich Krüger (born December 15, 1893 in Weißenfels , † after 1950) was a German teacher and politician ( LDPD ). He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Krüger, the son of a teacher, attended the high school in Weißenfels, the cathedral high school in Merseburg and the municipal high school in Brandenburg an der Havel , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1913. He began studying philology, which he had to interrupt in 1915 because he was drafted into military service in World War I.

It was not until 1919 that he was able to resume studies in Göttingen and finish it with the state examination in 1921. He then worked as an editor and went into politics. He joined the German People's Party (DVP) in 1922 and became regional manager of the DVP in Oldenburg . In 1924 he was appointed General Secretary to Duisburg by DVP Chairman Gustav Stresemann . He stayed here until the party was dissolved in 1933. Under the pressure of the Hitler dictatorship , he emigrated to Greece in the same year . He initially worked for two years as a lecturer in Corfu , then for three years as a sworn civil servant and professor at the state commercial school in Heraklion on Crete . From 1939 he worked as a professor for German language and literature at the University of Saloniki . When the Greco-Italian War broke out in October 1940, he went to Germany for half a year, but returned to Greece. After taking a cure in Karlsbad in 1944, he was unable to return to Greece due to the collapse of the German occupation in the Balkans. Since his house in the Rhineland was destroyed by a direct bombing hit, he was able to stay with relatives in Strelitz . From autumn 1944 to December 1945 he was unemployed.

In January 1946 he became a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. At the same time he found work as a high school teacher at the " Carolinum " in Neustrelitz and from January 1, 1948 he was rector of the grammar school. On August 1, 1947, he became chairman of the Society for the Study of Culture of the Soviet Union in the Neustrelitz district . At the same time he was a board member of the Kulturbund , chairman of the district people's committee for unity and just peace and chairman of the committee of the Greece aid committee in the Neustrelitz district.

Krüger was a delegate of the German People's Congress and a member of the Second People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber . In February 1950 he was proposed by Hermann Kastner as head of the department for supply in the office of the funding committee, which the GDR Council of Ministers approved in March 1950.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curriculum vitae in the minutes of the 17th meeting of the Provisional Government of the GDR on March 2, 1950 - in the Federal Archives DC 20-I / 3/13.