Gustav Gerecke

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Gustav Gerecke (born September 25, 1871 in Braunschweig ; † April 21, 1929 there ) was a German social democratic minister.

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Gerecke had trained as a locksmith and plumber and worked as a small trader. He was a member of the USPD since 1917 . He was chairman of the Braunschweig district from 1920 to 1922 before joining the SPD in 1922 . From 1922 to 1924 he was district chairman of the Braunschweig SPD.

From 1919 to 1924 Gerecke was a member of the Braunschweig Landtag . After the November Revolution he was in the first government from November 10, 1918 to February 22, 1919 People's Commissar for Food. He was a member of the subsequent Oerter cabinet (February 22 to April 30, 1919) with the same function. He took on an extended area of ​​responsibility as Minister for Food, Trade and Transport in the Jasper cabinet until June 26, 1919, before being replaced by Otto Antrick .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b biography of Gustav Gerecke . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
  2. Stadtchronik Braunschweig 1910 to 1919 at m.braunschweig.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.
  3. The Free State of Braunschweig - The State Governments 1918–1933 on gonschior.de, accessed on August 28, 2013.