Günther Grewe

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Günther Grewe 1968 at the 12th party congress of the CDU in Erfurt

Günther Grewe (born on August 7, 1924 in Essen-Borbeck ) is a German former politician ( CDU ) of the GDR . From 1963 to 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Günther Grewe was born as the son of a mine worker in Essen. After attending elementary and middle school he studied from 1939 to 1941 the profession of electrician . During the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1945 , most recently as a corporal .

From 1945 to 1949 he worked in his profession. After 1949 he was the managing director and authorized signatory of various companies. In 1945 he joined the Free German Trade Union Federation and in 1946 the CDU. In 1948 he was one of the founders of the People's Congress movement in Thuringia and in 1949 became a member of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . For a while he worked in the district administration in Altenburg , 1950–1952 as deputy district administrator . From 1950 Grewe was a secret informant (GI) of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) under the code name "Graf" . In 1952 he became deputy chairman of the Gera district association of the CDU. From 1953 to 1954 he was Deputy Mayor of Gera. From 1954 to 1960 he was first chairman of the CDU district association in Gera and a member of the district assembly . In 1960 he became the full-time head of the politics department in the party leadership of the CDU. Also from 1960 to 1990 he was a member of the Presidium and Secretariat of the National Council of the National Front . From 1963 he was a member of the district board of Urania Berlin Mitte . From October 1963 to March 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber for the CDU. There he was a member of the Citizens' Submissions Committee. From 1968 to 1972 he was a member of the presidium of the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member and deputy chairman of the committee for foreign affairs in the Volkskammer and from 1971 deputy chairman of the committee for trade and supply as well as chairman of the working group for church questions at the main board of the CDU. From 1982 to 1989 he was chairman of the friendship society between the GDR and Norway. Grewe worked as an unofficial employee for the MfS until the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR brought it to an end.

Publications

  • Living up to our national responsibility in the National Front . In: Fifteen Years of the German Democratic Republic , Union Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 86–87.
  • The importance of the socialist state of the German nation in the struggle for peace and progress . In: Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Ed.): Christian Democrats for the Fatherland of the People . Union Verlag, Berlin 1969, p. 55 ff.
  • Our way of the National Front . In: Experiences and experiences of Christian democrats from 3 decades . Union Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 83-85.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Schäfer: The Church Policy of the Eastern CDU and the Catholic Church in the Soviet Zone / GDR , p. 153 and 160.
personal data
SURNAME Grewe, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count (IM)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German member of the People's Chamber of the GDR (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen-Borbeck