Ernst-Walter Beer

Ernst-Walter Beer (also for short: Ernst Beer ; * December 14, 1910 in Thein ; † October 28, 1980 in Stahnsdorf ) was a German politician ( DBD ). He was regional chairman of the DBD and minister in the state of Mecklenburg .

Life

Beer was born into a Sudeten German family. His mother died early. He did not get along with his stepmother and therefore grew up with relatives. After graduating from middle school , he studied for a few semesters at the arable, fruit and viticulture school. In 1927 he joined the social democratic DSAP and in 1928 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . After the incorporation of the Sudetenland in 1938 he did military service, later military service and was wounded in World War II .

After the war he moved to Hedersleben , where he took on a new farmer's position. In 1948 he became a member of the newly founded Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD). From June 1948 to June 1949 he worked as the deputy chairman of the DBD regional association Saxony-Anhalt , from June 1949 to 1951 as the first chairman of the DBD regional association Mecklenburg. From 1948 to 1957 was a member of the DBD party executive committee, from 1949 to 1955 also a member of the secretariat of the DBD party executive committee. Under Beer, the DBD developed into the second strongest party in Mecklenburg.

Beer was a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg and its main, legal and agricultural committee. From 1949 to 1954 he was also a member of the 2nd German People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber and People's Chamber . He was a member of the Economic Committee of the People's Chamber. From November 1950 to July 1952 he was in the Mecklenburg state governments Höcker , Bürger and Quandt Minister without portfolio and entrusted with the land reform construction program. From 1951 he was a member of the state board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . After the dissolution of the federal states and the formation of the districts in the GDR in July 1952, he became deputy chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district and from July 1952 to 1955 chairman of the district committee of the DBD. From 1954 he was also a member of the Neubrandenburg district assembly.

In 1956, Beer preceded an expulsion from the party by leaving the party. Until the contrary was proven, Beer had denied that he was a member of the Sudeten German Party under Konrad Henlein and that he was at times a guard in a Nazi camp. He had turned down several revelation offers from the DBD and stuck to his supposedly untroubled communist past.

He became the owner of a poultry rearing station in the Neubrandenburg district and later lived in the Potsdam district .

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 866.
• Hans Reichelt : recorder or what? The history of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) 1948 to 1990 . Edition Ost, Berlin 1997, p. 378.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 892.
• Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from Above. The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, 1948–1963. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56703-9 , pp. 121, 289f. and passim
• Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953 . BWV Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 492.
• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952 . A biographical lexicon . 1st edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 .

Web links

• MV data. The biographical database .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 11, 1949, p. 2.