Gerhard Mahler (politician)

Gerhard Mahler (born November 6, 1930 in Plochingen ; † March 26, 1996 in Salzburg ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( CDU ). From 1972 to 1976 he was State Secretary in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg .

Life

Mahler was born in Plochingen and grew up in neighboring Eßlingen am Neckar , where his ancestors up to his great-grandfather were well-known craftsmen and entrepreneurs. He passed the Abitur in 1951 at the Georgii grammar school in Esslingen and then studied law at the University of Tübingen and then economics and social sciences at the universities of Cologne, Munich and Hamburg. In 1956 he finished his studies in Munich as a business graduate. In 1962 he received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg for Dr. rer. pole. Since the summer semester of 1952 Mahler was a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland .

In 1958 Mahler began to work as managing director of the medium-sized family company JF Mahler, Apparate- und Ofenbau KG, Esslingen am Neckar. He carried out this activity until June 1972. During this time he was also a member of the regional board of the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions (VDMA) from 1969 to 1972 .

politics

Political party

Mahler joined the CDU when he was still a student in 1953, and from 1957 to 1966 he was deputy chairman of the Junge Union in northern Württemberg. From 1959 to 1970 he was chairman of the CDU district association in Esslingen and from 1962 to 1972 also city council in Esslingen am Neckar. In 1971 he became chairman of the CDU district association in Northern Württemberg, when he was also a member of the state presidium of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg.

State Secretary

In July 1970 Mahler became the CDU regional association's representative for public relations. In the state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg in 1972, he acted as campaign manager for the CDU. When the CDU won an absolute majority in the April 23, 1972 election with 52.9% of the vote, it was largely regarded as his merit. In May 1972 he was appointed State Secretary in the State Ministry with a seat and a vote in the newly formed cabinet. In the new state government of Hans Filbinger , he took on planning and management tasks. In May 1973, Mahler expressed his interest in the office of General Secretary of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, but Filbinger preferred the MP Dietmar Schlee . The relationship between him and Filbinger continued to cool down further. After the CDU also won again in the next state election in 1976, Mahler had hoped for the post of Minister of Agriculture for which he had run four years earlier. Filbinger, however, did not consider him as the successor to Friedrich Brünner , who was no longer available for reasons of age , but Gerhard Weiser and again only offered him the office of State Secretary. Mahler angrily refused and was replaced by Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, who, unlike Mahler, did not get a vote in the cabinet.

Late years

Mahler had stood up for the 1976 state elections in the Nürtingen constituency, in which he also received the direct mandate and entered the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. After Filbinger's resignation in August 1978, he and Manfred Wörner campaigned for the Mayor of Stuttgart, Manfred Rommel, to be nominated as the new Prime Minister. On August 30th, however, Lothar Späth was elected as the new head of government. Mahler left the state parliament again in 1980 because he wanted to work as an entrepreneur again. Subsequently, he was the managing director and limited partner of Mahler Verwaltungs GmbH in Esslingen am Neckar. He also gave up the CDU district chairmanship, but in May 1985 he became honorary chairman of the CDU in northern Württemberg. A year later, in February 1986, he was active again on the political stage when he was elected chairman of the board of the newly founded State Institute for Communication . After differences with Südwestfunk, he resigned from this post in October 1990. In the same year he again went public with a letter accusing Lothar Späth of having given false testimony several times in the party donation affair. He relied on old protocols, according to which Späth should have given false evidence.

supporting documents

• International Biographical Archive 24/1996 from June 3, 1996 in the munzinger archive.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Faul (ed.): Landsmannschaft Scottland zu Tübingen - List of all federal brothers 1849-1959 , Stuttgart 1969.