Gerhard Ambros

Gerhard Ambros (born March 11, 1928 in Etzgersrieth ; † May 31, 2007 in Chemnitz ) was an SED functionary for agriculture.

Life

The son of a miner completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk after attending elementary and commercial school and then worked in the profession. In 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and briefly became a prisoner of war in the United States .

After the war he worked as an accountant in Lichtenstein from 1945 to 1949 . In 1946 he became a member of the SED. After working as managing director of the Glauchau agricultural cooperative , his political career began in 1951 as a functionary of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) in Glauchau. He was first second or first secretary of the VdgB district committee Glauchau, from 1955 to 1960 second secretary and from 1960 to 1962 first secretary of the VdgB district committee Karl-Marx-Stadt. He graduated as a financial economist from the college for finance in Gotha. From 1962 to 1973 he worked in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district as head of the agriculture department of the SED district leadership. From 1967 to 1969 he studied at the LPG University in Meißen with a degree in agricultural engineering. In November 1973 he was finally elected to the SED district leadership and received the post of Secretary for Agriculture, which he held until 1989. Ambros was a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly . After the fall of the Wall he was a member of the PDS and the Left Party .

Awards

• 1972 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1977 in silver and 1988 in gold

literature

• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 90 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1988, p. 3