Gerhard Kowala

Gerhard Kowala (born May 19, 1910 in Hamburg ; † March 15, 2003 ) was a Lower Saxony lawyer and politician ( GB / BHE / FDP ) and a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .

Kowala attended the Schiller High School in Poznan . Following his school education, he began studying law in Krakow and Poznan . He also became a legal trainee and assessor here. In 1938, as a German, he was not admitted to the bar in Poland. He became managing director of the German Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw and later head of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the Generalgouvernement , the Warsaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other organizations of commercial self-government. In 1941 he resigned from all offices. He became a German lawyer in Warsaw. Since 1943 he was active as a soldier in the war. He was taken prisoner, from which he was released in 1946. Since 1947 he worked as a lawyer in Hanover. He was appointed a member of the Lower Saxony State Court of Justice, of which he was a member from 1965 to 1981. He was a long-time member of the GB / BHE and the country team Weichsel-Warthe , of which he was the former national spokesman.

In the fourth electoral term, Kowala was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from May 6, 1959 to May 5, 1963. He was a member of the FDP parliamentary group from December 11, 1961.

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 212.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lower Saxony State Parliament. Shorthand report. 6th session. Hanover, May 14, 2003  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB), p. 361