Gerhard Mattner

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Gerhard Mattner

Gerhard Mattner (born June 21, 1924 in Klingenthal , † 1976 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( DBD ). He was a Berlin member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and Deputy Mayor of Greater Berlin (ie East Berlin ).

Life

After attending primary school, Mattner learned the trade of a farmer . He worked as an economic manager in various companies in Central Germany. In the Second World War he had to do military service.

After the war in 1945, initially as a laborer, in 1947 he worked full-time in peasant organizations. As a department head in the district secretariat of the VdgB in Auerbach (Vogtland) , he played a particularly important role in the formation of the then machine rental stations in the district. He became a member of the DBD and in 1952 was appointed First Secretary of the DBD City Association of Berlin. From 1956 to 1960 he was chairman of the DBD district board in Berlin.

In 1953 he became city councilor of Berlin and on February 13, 1953 chairman of the commission for agriculture of the city council assembly (SIA). In 1954, 1958 and 1963 he was re-elected to the SSV. From 1954 to 1958, as a member of the DBD, he was also a Berlin representative in the People's Chamber.

Gerhard Mattner as a speaker in Berlin.

On November 15, 1954, he was elected a member of the Berlin magistrate . In the magistrate he was the only representative of the Democratic Peasant Party.

On November 29, 1958, he was promoted to deputy mayor and city councilor - responsible for agriculture and forestry. He held this position until 1963, when he became deputy chairman of the Berlin District Agriculture Council.

Most recently he worked at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the GDR . He died after a long and serious illness.

He was married and had two children.

Awards in the GDR

literature

  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 2nd electoral period. Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 392.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 210.

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait in the Berliner Zeitung of October 17, 1958, p. 9.
  2. Berliner Zeitung of February 14, 1953, p. 6.
  3. Neues Deutschland from November 16, 1954, p. 6.
  4. Berlin Chronicle , online version, ed. from the Landesarchiv Berlin, November 15, 1954, http://www.landesarchiv-berlin-chronik.de/beispiel_begriff_rechts.php?edit=29236& Anzeige=mattner
  5. Berliner Zeitung of December 2, 1958, p. 6.
  6. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from July 8, 1976, p. 6.