Gustav Huebner

Gustav Huebner (1954)

Gustav Huebner (born August 13, 1920 in Königsblumenau , Prussian Holland district ) was a German miner. In the 1950s he was an award-winning personality in the GDR, a member of the People's Chamber and a national prize winner.

Life

Hübner was born in 1920 in Königsblumenau in East Prussia, the son of a worker, and after completing elementary school he initially learned the trade of a baker from 1935 to 1938. After working in this profession for some time, he was drafted into military service.

After the end of the war, Hübner started working as a miner at what was then Wismut AG in the Ore Mountains in 1949 . He began as a promoter, became a trainee, later a farm brigadier and finally a brigadier of a complex brigade. In 1950 Huebner joined the SED . He developed a wealth of ideas and dealt primarily with the introduction of Soviet, mechanized methods that increased the drifting. In the wake of the Hennecke movement , he and his brigade constantly exceeded the norms and, with them, set an internal Bismut record of over 200 m in horizontal drifting in one month in 1952. This was publicized throughout the whole of the republic and brought Huebner the honorary title of Honored Miner of the GDR and a few months later a hero of work .

In honor of the 4th anniversary of the founding of the GDR on October 7, 1953, Hübner initiated a typical competition at the time to achieve more than 300 m of tunneling after he had reached 260 m with his brigade in one month. In preparation for the 4th party congress of the SED, of which he was also a delegate, he made a voluntary commitment that his complex brigade would soon be able to drive 400 m a month.

The year 1954 also represented a high point in Hübner's public perception in other respects. He was elected to the SED area leadership in Wismut, to which he belonged until 1958 and received during the celebrations for the national holiday of the GDR on October 7, 1954 together with the Miners Willi John, Hans Seidel and Heinz Löbig the National Prize III. Science and technology class . In addition, Hübner was set up by the Free German Trade Union Federation as a candidate for the People's Chamber elections on October 17, 1954. As a result, he was a member of the GDR parliament as a member of parliament for two terms until 1963.

In 1955 he attended the mining college in Karl-Marx-Stadt , where he completed an engineering course. In 1958 he stopped working underground. Another expression of the award practice, which at times was already reminiscent of a personality cult, was the naming of a company holiday camp of Wismut AG at the Schneeberger Filzteich . Only when the camp was handed over to the central management of the pioneer organization in 1961 and rededicated to a central pioneer camp did the honorary name disappear. So far nothing is known about Hübner's further life.

literature

• People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (Ed.): Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (2nd electoral period) . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 322.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from July 6, 1952, p. 3
2. ^ New Germany of October 14, 1952, p. 3
3. ^ New Germany of October 8, 1954, p. 6
4. ↑ Wolfgang Buddrus (Ed.): Happy holidays for all children. Summer camp in the GDR. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-9126-0 , pp. 179 ( extract [accessed March 7, 2018]).