Georg Ewald

This article deals with the SED politician Georg Ewald. For the theologian and DHP politician see Georg Heinrich August Ewald .

Georg Ewald visits the LPG Löwenberg (August 1972)

Georg Ewald with traveling flag of the GDR Council of Ministers, 1973.

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Georg Ewald (born October 30, 1926 in Buchholz ; † September 14, 1973 near Gotha ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management in the GDR .

Life

After attending agricultural school, Ewald worked in his parents' farm until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 .

From 1946 to 1949 Ewald was a farm worker and in 1946 became a member of the FDJ and SED. In 1949/1950 he was mayor of his hometown and from 1950 to 1953 district councilor for agriculture, district councilor for the Stralsund district and a member of the SED district leadership. From 1954 to 1955 Ewald attended the party college and was then first secretary in the SED district leadership in Bad Doberan and Rügen . From 1960 to 1963, Ewald was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg and a member of the district parliament , then a member of the SED Central Committee, candidate of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee and a member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers . He was chairman of the Agriculture Council and the Council for Agricultural Production and Food Management at the Council of Ministers and from 1971 to 1973 Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management of the GDR.

From 1963 to 1973 Ewald was also a member of the People's Chamber .

Ewald had a fatal accident on September 14, 1973 in a car accident near Gotha. His urn was buried in the memorial of the socialists in the central cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin-Lichtenberg .

Others

In Gotha vernacular, the stretch of road on which Ewald had a fatal accident (a long curve of the B 247 between the A4 motorway exit and the entrance to Gotha) is still known today as the Ministerial Curve .

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1960 and 1964)
• Banner of Labor (1969)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 167.
• Siegfried Kuntsche:  Ewald, Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Michael Heinz: Gerhard Grüneberg and Georg Ewald - an unequal leadership couple of the SED agricultural policy . In: Detlev Brunner, Mario Niemann (ed.): The GDR - a German story. Effect and perception . Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3506771957 , pp. 219-238.

Web links

Commons : Georg Ewald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Georg Ewald in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1960, p. 4.
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1964, p. 6.