Gerhard Lindner (politician)

On November 17, 1989, the People's Chamber elected Gerhard Lindner (left) as a member of the State Council. Also on display: Manfred Mühlmann (center), Deputy Chairman of the State Council, and Günther Maleuda (right), President of the People's Chamber

Gerhard Lindner (born April 28, 1929 in Leipzig ) is a former German politician and functionary of the GDR block party LDPD .

Live and act

Lindner, the son of a sales representative and a wholesale clerk, grew up with his mother's grandparents after his parents' divorce. From 1935 to 1939 he attended elementary school and from 1939 to 1947 the secondary school in Leipzig, which he left with the Abitur . Between 1947 and 1949 he worked as an intern at a lawyer and notary in Leipzig in order to acquire prior knowledge for his later legal studies. From 1949 to 1954 he studied law at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , which he graduated with the academic degree of a qualified lawyer .

After Lindner had already joined the LDPD in October 1946, he worked between 1954 and 1959 as head of the training and culture department at the secretariat of the party leadership of the LDPD. Since 1954 he was a member of the central board, since 1959 he was also a member of the Political Committee of the LDPD. From 1959 to 1966 he was a full-time member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front . Between 1966 and 1982 he worked as secretary of the central board and since 1982 as deputy chairman of the LDPD. After the reunification in the GDR , he was a member of the BFD from March to August 1990 , and the FDP since then .

From 1958 to 1963, Lindner was initially a Berlin representative and from 1963 to March 1990 a member of the People's Chamber . Between 1963 and 1969 he was chairman there, and between 1969 and 1971 deputy chairman of the committee for submissions from citizens. From 1971 to 1981 he worked as a member, since 1981 as the first deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and since 1971 also as deputy chairman of the Interparliamentary Group. On November 17, 1989 he was elected to the State Council of the GDR , to which he belonged until its dissolution in March 1990.

Lindner had been a member of the FDJ since 1948 and a member of the FDGB since 1954 . Between 1954 and 1968 and again between October 28, 1972 and 1982, he was a member of the Presidential Council of the Kulturbund . From 1959 to 1969 he was a member of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front and from 1959 to 1966 also a member of its secretariat. From 1960 he acted as Vice President and in 1990 finally as President of the Society for the Promotion of the Olympic Idea in the GDR . Between 1973 and 1982 he was a member of the Presidium of the Peace Council of the GDR and since 1982 its Vice-President. Since 1974 he has also been a member of the World Peace Council . From 1976 he was a member of the Presidium of the League for Friendship between Nations , from 1965 to 1976 he was Vice President of the Friendship Society GDR-Latin America and 1976 to 1990 President of the Friendship Society GDR-Great Britain .

In the course of more recent research it was revealed that Lindner had worked for the head office of Enlightenment in 1957/58 as a resident employee in the Federal Republic of Germany and between 1958 and 1989 at the Ministry for State Security under the code name "Hans Reichert" as a secret informator (GI) or unofficial employee Security (IMS) was recorded.

Awards in the GDR

Certificate of Honor of the LDPD (1958)
Wilhelm Külz Badge of Honor (1963)
Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1963 and 1969), in silver (1973) and in gold (1983)
Honorary Degree of Honored Activist (1967)
Badge of Honor for Services to the Friendship of Nations (1969)
Medal of Merit of the National People's Army in bronze, silver (1977) and gold
Order Banner of Labor Stage I (1978)
Medal for faithful service in the National People's Army in silver (1980) and in gold (1984)
Order of Star of People's Friendship in gold (1989)
Medal of the Brotherhood of Arms in Silver (1989)

literature

Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the SBZ / GDR 1945–1990 . tape 1 . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 481 f .
Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd Edition. Dietz, Berlin / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 191.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Lindner, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Andreas Herbst , Christine Krauss, Daniel Küchenmeister, Detlef Nakath (Hrsg.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual. Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 1014.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Lindner - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

^ The morning of April 28, 1989.
↑ Interview with Lindner in the morning of November 24, 1972.
^ The morning of October 30, 1972.
^ Walter Suess : State Security at the End. Why the powerful did not succeed in preventing a revolution in 1989. Ch. Links, Berlin 1999, pp. 576-578.
↑ ^a ^b ^c According to documents from the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic .

personal data
SURNAME	Lindner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German LDPD functionary, MdV, member of the State Council of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig

[1] The morning of April 28, 1989.

[2] Interview with Lindner in the morning of November 24, 1972.

[3] The morning of October 30, 1972.

[4] Walter Suess : State Security at the End. Why the powerful did not succeed in preventing a revolution in 1989. Ch. Links, Berlin 1999, pp. 576-578.

[BStU-5] According to documents from the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic .