Gerhard Schmidt (politician, 1919)

Gerhard Schmidt (born September 15, 1919 in Berlin , † November 25, 1984 in Kaarst , Düsseldorf administrative district ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Gerhard Schmidt was the son of a Reichsbahn worker and attended an elementary school in Berlin-Schöneberg . Influenced by the social democratic parental home, he joined the “ Kinderfreunde ” and the “ Falken ” in 1928 . In 1930 he switched to the Karl Marx School in Berlin-Neukölln , which he completed in 1936 with the upper secondary school leaving certificate. Schmidt did a commercial apprenticeship at a bee honey company, where he later also worked. Since his father was imprisoned in September 1939, he visited him several times in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In 1940 he was the Wehrmacht confiscated and fell into Africa in American captivity .

After the Second World War , Schmidt returned to Berlin in April 1947 and joined the SPD. He was hired by the Charlottenburg-West tax office and joined the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB). A year later he moved to the Independent Trade Union Opposition (UGO) and finally in 1950 to the newly founded Public Services, Transport and Traffic Union (ÖTV). Schmidt became a member of the main works council of the Berlin tax offices, and in October 1952 he was hired full-time at ÖTV. In the Berlin election in 1958 he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives in the constituency of Schöneberg 1, and was a member of parliament until March 1967.

literature

Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (= series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 236 (331 pages).