Ewald Damaske

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Ewald Damaske (born July 9, 1910 in Palzwitz , Schlawe / Pommern district ; † after 1976 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Damaske, son of a worker, attended elementary school and then worked in agriculture until 1935. Then he learned the profession of car mechanic. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did military and war service. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Americans .

From October 1946 worked as a factory worker and equipment manager for the company fire brigade in the "Glückauf" mine in Knappenrode in the Hoyerswerda district, and finally became chief of the fire brigade at the Knappenrode lignite plant. He joined the CDU and the FDGB in 1947 and became a departmental union leader and BGL member in the brown coal works. In April 1952 he was re-elected as chairman of the largest CDU operating group of a state-owned company in the Hoyerswerda district .

From 1950 until the state parliament was dissolved in 1952, he was a member of the CDU parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . Damaske was also a member of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and was elected to the State Board of Saxony of DSF in January 1951.

From June 29, 1952 to August 1952, Damaske was a member of the CDU's extended state committee for Saxony. After the administrative reform in the summer of 1952, he was a member of the Cottbus District Assembly from August 1952 to October 1954 . In 1954 he became chairman of the CDU district committee in Hoyerswerda and on July 4, 1954 a member of the CDU district committee in Cottbus.

In the Volkskammer election on October 17, 1954, he was elected to the Volkskammer in the Cottbus district, to which he belonged until 1958.

After the municipal council elections on October 10, 1965, Ewald Damaske took over the office of mayor of Knappenrode from Hermann Krusche (SED), who was leaving due to illness . In the early summer of 1974 he became CDU district secretary in Hoyerswerda and still held this position in March 1976.

Damaske was married and had five children. He lived on Waldstrasse in Knappenrode.

Awards

literature

  • Information Office West (Ed.): Handbook of the Soviet Zone People's Chamber. 2nd electoral term (1954–1958) . Berlin 1955, p. 125.
  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 2nd electoral period . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 303.
  • Publishing house for international cultural exchange (ed.): WHO IS WHO in the SBZ? . Berlin 1958, p. 42.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soviet proposals bring sovereignty . In: Neue Zeit , April 10, 1952, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Active participation of CDU functionaries . In: Neue Zeit , January 12, 1951, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Activity always starts with thinking . In: Neue Zeit , January 30, 1975, p. 3.
  4. ↑ Our example also encourages non-party Christians . In: Neue Zeit , March 6, 1976, p. 9.
personal data
SURNAME Damaske, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Palzwitz
DATE OF DEATH after 1976