Gerhard Emig

This article explains the politician Gerhard Emig; for the chemist Gerhard Emig see Gerhard Emig (chemist) .

Gerhard Emig

Gerhard Emig (born September 10, 1926 in Eisenach ; † July 17, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ). From 1970 to 1971 and from 1977 to 1981 he was State Secretary (Senate Director) for Transport.

education

Gerhard Emig was born the son of a civil engineering contractor in Eisenach and spent his school days there. In 1943 he was drafted into the labor service and in 1944 into the armed forces. In southern France he was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of 1944. He spent this in New Mexico. In 1946 he returned from captivity to Eisenach, where he graduated from high school in 1947. In 1946 he became a member of the LDP. When he began his studies at the law faculty in Jena in the winter semester of 1948, he belonged to the liberal university group, of which he later became chairman. Political persecution pushed the college groups underground. Gerhard Emig belonged to a resistance group of 11 members of the LDP university group Jena, which was arrested by the state security in March 1952. From the 10-year prison sentence that was imposed, he served almost 5 years of solitary confinement in Brandenburg until his early release due to the Dehler initiative. After his release from prison in 1956, he fled Eisenach to Berlin and was recognized as a political refugee. In Cologne (1958) and Düsseldorf (1962) he passed his first and second state exams.

Professional Activities

In 1963 Emig became a research assistant to the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag. From 1964 to 1970 he was parliamentary group leader of the FDP. Between 1966 and 1970 he worked as a lawyer at the Berlin Regional Court. In 1970 he became Senate Director in the Senate's Economic Administration. In 1971 he was put into temporary retirement. From 1973 to 1976 he was again a lawyer at the Berlin Regional Court. In 1977 he became Senate Director for Transport in the SPD / FDP coalition under the Berlin Senator and Mayor Wolfgang Lüder , until the social-liberal coalition came to an end in 1981 . Following his political offices, he worked as a lawyer for the study company Nahverkehr Berlin (maglev project) and later for the Paul Löbe Institute . In 1991 he took over the provisional management of the Sachsenhausen Memorial for a year and a half .

More functions

• Assessor in the regional association of the FDP (1964)
• Deputy State Chairman of the FDP (1971–1975)
• Member of the Berlin House of Representatives (1975)
• Managing partner of the publishing company "Das Berliner Wort" mbH

Private

Emig had been married to Helga Emig since 1964 and had two daughters.

Awards

In 1994, Emig was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his work as acting head of the Sachsenhausen Memorial.