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Closing ceremony in Kiel's Ostseehalle . Presentation of the “Grand Prix of the Evening” to a couple from Lampertheim by State Secretary Ernst Haar (1st from left) and Showmaster Peter Frankenfeld (2nd from left), 1975

Ernst Haar (born January 26, 1925 in Birkach near Stuttgart , † May 25, 2004 in Frankfurt am Main ) was chairman of the GdED from 1979 to 1988, member of the DGB federal executive committee and from 1965 to 1990 member of the German Bundestag.

After returning from captivity, he worked as a banker until 1949 and from 1950 onwards he worked for the German Railway Workers' Union (GdED, now the Railway and Transport Union). From 1959 to 1972 he was district leader of the GdED and from 1979 to 1988 its federal chairman. In 1986 he became Vice President of the International Federation of Transport Workers .

In 1950 Haar joined the SPD, in 1954 he became a district advisory council in Stuttgart-Ost and a member of the SPD district executive. From 1960 to 1972 he was district chairman of the SPD Stuttgart, in 1969 he became a member of the SPD state executive. As a member of the SPD parliamentary group, he was a member of the Stuttgart city council from 1959 to 1965, where he was involved in the administrative and economic committees, among other things.

From 1972 to 1979 Ernst Haar was Parliamentary State Secretary under the Post and Transport Ministers Georg Leber and Kurt Gscheidle . From 1982 to 1990 he was Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In 1976 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class, in 1978 the Great Cross of Merit and in 1986 the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Works

as editor with Rainer Graichen: Right of way for employees. Alternatives to transport policy. Road, rail, inland waterway transport. Courier, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-7663-0548-4 .

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 292.

Individual proof

↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.

Web links

Works by and about Ernst Haar in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Hair, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birkach near Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 2004
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 31, No. 45, March 6, 1979.