Gerhard Lange (politician)

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Gerhard Lange (born March 18, 1911 in Leipzig ; † March 30, 1983 there ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1961 to 1976 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Lange, the son of a bank employee, attended elementary and secondary school, completed an apprenticeship as a banker from 1929 to 1931 and then worked as a bank employee. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and had to do military service.

After the war he became a member of the CDU in September 1945. He followed the call for new teachers and passed the 1st and 1949 the 2nd teacher examination. In 1950 he was appointed director of a primary school and in 1951 was appointed deputy school councilor. After passing the state exams as a specialist physics teacher and as a special school teacher, he was appointed city school inspector in Leipzig in 1952. From 1952 to 1958 he was a member of the Leipzig District Assembly and a member of the Standing Commission for Popular Education. From May 1954 he was chairman of the CDU city council in Leipzig and from October 1958 (9th party congress) to October 1964 (11th party congress) a member of the CDU main board (HV). He worked as chairman of the pedagogy working group at the HV and was an observer of the Central Investigation Committee of the HV. In June 1960 he was appointed to the teaching staff.

From 1958 to 1961 he was the successor candidate of the People's Chamber. On March 24, 1961, he was accepted as a new member of the People's Chamber at the 16th meeting of the People's Chamber (successor to Otto Kalb, who fled to the West ). From 1961 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the budget and finance committee, from 1967 to 1976 1st deputy chairman of the committee for popular education. In 1966 he became a member of the Special Education Section of the Scientific Council of the Ministry for Popular Education of the GDR . From 1966 to 1978 he was director of the secondary school for the physically handicapped "Albert Schweitzer" in Leipzig-Mitte.

Lange died in Leipzig at the age of 72 and was buried in the Ostfriedhof Leipzig.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 205.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 4th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1964, p. 383.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 6th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1972, p. 437.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greetings and thanks to the teachers . In: Neue Zeit , June 12, 1960, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Plan of further successes before the People's Chamber . In: Neue Zeit, March 25, 1961, p. 1.
  3. ^ Obituary notice in the Neue Zeit of April 9, 1983, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1983
Place of death Leipzig