Ernst Zborowski

Ernst Zborowski (* 1907 ; † unknown) was a politician of the newly founded CDU in the Soviet occupation zone after the Second World War , a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and the first German People's Council .

Life

Zborowski studied economics and graduated with a degree in economics. After the Second World War he was one of the founders of the CDU in Brandenburg . From October 1946 to May 1948 he was state manager of the CDU Brandenburg. After Wilhelm Wolf died in an accident (the exact circumstances remained unclear) , he became his successor as state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg. Peter Bloch , the party's preferred candidate for state chairmanship, was forbidden by the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) to run for state chairman. Although he owed the office to the SMAD, he showed courage and subsequently criticized the SED's lack of democratic attitudes and totalitarian methods, demanded close cooperation between the East and West CDU and confirmed the CDU's call for free state elections in 1949. In particular his Criticism of the Oder-Neisse border led to its replacement by the SMAD.

In the Brandenburg state elections in 1946 he was elected to the state parliament. After the election, the LDPD and CDU had a majority in the state parliament . In order to enforce the transformation of the entire Soviet Zone into a socialist state, there was strong pressure on the MPs and massive manipulation by the SMAD. In 1947 the SMAD banned 11 and in 1948 38 motions from the democratic parliamentary groups. Ernst Zborowski resolutely opposed the pressure from SMAD and SED to approve the first two-year plan . On September 8, 1948, the state parliament rejected an application by the SED to approve the two-year plan. The SED and SMAD increased the pressure on the MPs and forced Ernst Zborowski to flee to the West. The synchronization of the CDU continued. The CDU approved the plan in the state parliament on October 7, and Karl Grobbel was appointed Zborowski's successor as state chairman on November 1.

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• Michael Richter: Die Ost-CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity , 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0916-9 , pages 82-82 and page 419 (short biography)
• Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber: SBZ manual. 1993, ISBN 3486552627 , pages 532, 536 and 1063 ( online ).
• Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition: Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the SBZ / GDR 1945–52, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2002, ISBN 3825863212 , page 682, 684– 685