Gustav Brack

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Gustav Brack (born December 1, 1892 in Angerburg , † 1953 ) was a German businessman , trade union official , state politician ( SPD / BDS / SED ) and insurance director .

Life

Brack comes from an East Prussian working class family. After attending primary school , he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Central Association of Employees . As an army soldier he took part in World War I and was taken prisoner by the British . After his return he worked as a commercial clerk, also in managerial positions. In 1919 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and in 1921 was appointed full-time district manager of the Central Association of Employees of Thuringia . At the same time he was a managing member of the State Labor Office for Central Germany , State Labor Judge at the State Labor Court in Erfurt and a member of the State Railway Council.

In 1933 he was selected by the Nazi rulers removed from office and led since then a fire insurance . At the same time he worked illegally against the National Socialist system, was arrested in April 1934 and sentenced in early 1935 to three years and eight months in prison for “preparing for high treason” . Following the prison sentence served in Kassel prison, he was taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . After serious damage to his health, he was released in May 1941, but arrested again in August 1944 in connection with the grating operation. On April 15, 1945, he managed to escape from prison .

In May 1945 he became head of department at the Thuringian labor office under the former concentration camp inmate Ernst Busse , who had been liberated shortly before . In August 1945 Brack became director of the State Labor Office. During his tenure, the two state offices for labor and social affairs were merged to form the state office for labor and social welfare. With his participation, the State Insurance Institute became a department of the State Office for Labor and Social Welfare, to which the Social Insurance Department was attached on September 19, 1945. Politically, he was involved in the Association of Democratic Socialists (BdS), of which he was a founding member. At the same time he worked in the Thuringian state executive committee of the SPD. He joined the SED in April 1946 and was a member of the secretariat of the SED state board of Thuringia until 1947. In June 1946 he succeeded Gustav Gundelach as President of the German Central Administration for Labor and Social Welfare in Berlin , which on March 9, 1948 was renamed the Central Administration for Labor and Social Welfare of the German Economic Commission (DWK). When the government was formed in October 1949, the Ministry of Labor and Health, under the direction of Luitpold Steidle, emerged from the Central Administration of Labor and Social Welfare and the Central Administration of Health . Brack was initially an employee of this ministry. From 1952 he was director of the Gera district office of the German Insurance Company (DVA).

Publications

  • The valuable asset. Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Ed.), Berlin 1946.

literature

  • Arnd Bauerkämper (Ed.): Junkerland in Bauernhand ?, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-06994-1 , p. 47.
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949. In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Small series Volume 29, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Weimar-Wien 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 , p. 542.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Brack 55 years . In: Neues Deutschland , December 2, 1947, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Uniform social insurance in Thuringia . In: Neues Deutschland, September 6, 1946, p. 4.
  3. ↑ 150 million DM saved . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 26, 1949, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Brack, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade unionists and state politicians (BdS, SPD, SED)
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Angerburg
DATE OF DEATH 1953