Georg appeal

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Georg Appell (born September 24, 1901 in Gotha ; † August 11, 1970 ) was a German politician ( DDP / SPD / SED ) and lawyer .

Life

Appell was born into a working class family in Gotha. His father was a train driver . After attending elementary school and then a secondary school, he began studying law in 1922 . During this time he was also a student trainee in a machine factory. From 1927 he went to the legal preparatory service, which he completed at several courts . In 1928 he became a doctor of jurisprudence doctorate and was from 1931 assessor in the control and financial management of Schmalkalden .

Appell joined the German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1919 and was chairman of the Thuringian Young Democrats from 1921 when the republic was in existence . He was also involved in the DDP state committee for Thuringia and in the Reichsparteiaommittees. From 1926 he was chairman of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold in Jena , and a few years later he became a member of the Thuringia regional council. Because among his clients Communists were the Nazi rulers deprived 1933 the approval as a lawyer . In the following years he worked as a business lawyer and got by with odd jobs. During the Second World War he became a senior employee of a metal factory in Leipzig .

After the end of the war he returned to Thuringia in June 1945, joined the Association of Democratic Socialists (BdS) and then the SPD. During this time he was state director for transport in the Brill cabinet , then in the Paul cabinet for economics. After joining the SED in 1947, he was Minister for Labor and Social Affairs. In 1948 he was a member of the First German People's Council . In June 1949, at the urging of the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (SMATh) and the central SED leadership, he resigned from his ministerial office because he did not submit to the party line. He then worked as a legal advisor in large companies and as a lawyer. In September 1966 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze as District Director of the Erfurt branch of the German Investment Bank .

The Eisenach city ​​archive took over part of his estate .

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 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 859.
  • Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 539.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vervielte-schueler.org/1945-1990.htm
  2. ↑ Honors for Merit . In: Neues Deutschland , September 15, 1966, p. 2.
  3. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/startseite/detail/-/specific/Eisenacher-Stadtarchiv- geht-mit-der-Zeit- 615255024
personal data
SURNAME Roll call, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP, SPD, SED), MdV and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1970