Gustav Drevs

Gustav Drevs (born April 16, 1907 in Neu Steinbeck , Mecklenburg ; † April 17, 1988 ) was a German CDU politician.

Life and work

Gut Siedkow around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

After attending the agricultural high school , the Protestant Drevs studied agriculture at the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena . In 1928 he became active in the Corps Saxonia Jena . After two years of apprenticeship and six years as an agricultural official, he took over an estate in Siedkow in the Belgard district ( Pomerania province ). As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 , he came to Schleswig-Holstein as an expellee . In the Duchy of Lauenburg he was district chairman of the Trustees of Indivisible Germany from 1961 . Drevs was married and had three children. His son Merten Drevs was the first State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

politics

Drevs was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . Since 1948 he was a member of the district council in the Duchy of Lauenburg . 1950/51 he was also a member of the district committee, since 1951 district president . In 1956 he became district chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein in Lauenburg, after having been deputy district chairman since 1951. For five legislative periods - from 1954 to 1975 - he sat as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament . He initially represented the constituency of Lauenburg-Nord and, since 1971, the constituency of Lauenburg-Ost. From December 13, 1958 to December 3, 1967 Drevs was parliamentary representative of the Schleswig-Holstein state minister for labor, social affairs and displaced persons and then parliamentary representative of the state interior minister until he left the parliament. He was a substitute member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the German Federal President in 1964 . From 1967 to 1969 he was chairman of the parliamentary committee for expellees.

Honors

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Great Cross of Merit (September 3, 1968)
Honorary citizen of Ratzeburg
Band award of the Corps Saxonia Bonn (1985)

Web links

Gustav Drevs in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 146/760; 141/603.

personal data
SURNAME	Drevs, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Steinbeck near Krembz , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 17, 1988

[1] Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 146/760; 141/603.