Gerhard Rohner

Gerhard Rohner (born May 23, 1895 in Nieder-Heiduk near Bismarckhütte ; † March 7, 1971 in Bonn ) was Saxon finance minister and CDU politician in the GDR .

Life

After attending the Royal High School in Königsberg , Rohner completed a commercial apprenticeship. At the age of 26 he headed a sales department and from 1923 a technical office. From 1925 until the end of the war Rohner then worked as an independent sales representative for the Flick Group in Dresden , Chemnitz and Berlin .

politics

Rohner was one of the founders of the CDU in the Soviet zone of occupation in Dresden in July 1945 . He was a co-signer of the CDU founding call from August 28, 1945 and from 1946 to January 1950 a member of the state executive of the Saxon CDU. From July 3, 1945 until the first state elections in 1946, Rohner was Vice President of the State Administration of Saxony and its head of department for taxes and finance.

After the first state election, Rohner was appointed Saxon Finance Minister. At the same time he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from October 1946 to February 1950. Furthermore, Rohner was elected to the German People's Council in 1948 . As a member of the provisional People's Chamber, which was constituted in October 1949 from the German People's Council, Rohner was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In this function he was known as a man of open words when speaking to the People's Chamber. For example, he opposed the dissolution of the federal states' finance ministries. The events surrounding the vice president of the Saxon state parliament and party friend Hugo Hickmann also strengthened Rohner's decision to leave the GDR.

He fled to Düsseldorf in February 1950 and found another job with his old employer, the Flick Group. Most recently he was sales director of the Maximilianshütte in Sulzbach-Rosenberg .

literature

• Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , page 1001.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs:  Rohner, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Rohner in the Saxon Bibliography