Gustav Herbig (politician)

Gustav Herbig (born August 3, 1888 in Buschullersdorf , Bohemia , † October 9, 1965 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German diplomat and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Herbig began studying philology and social sciences at the universities in Prague and Paris , which he completed with a doctorate as Dr. phil. finished. He took part in the First World War as a soldier since 1914 and was taken prisoner by Russia a year later. He then worked as a teacher at a grammar school and as a lecturer in Spanish at the Prague Business School. In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo and then interned in a concentration camp in 1944. After the Second World War , from 1945 to 1948 he ran an “Antifa law firm” in Prague.

Herbig moved to West Germany as a displaced person in 1948 and settled in Baden . From 1951 to 1954 he was the German envoy in Uruguay .

Political party

Herbig had been a member of the DSAP since 1919 . In 1945 he joined the SPD.

MP

Herbig was a member of the Czechoslovak Parliament from 1946 until his flight to Germany in 1948. In the first federal election in 1949 he was elected to the German Bundestag via the Baden state list . After his appointment as German envoy, he resigned his Bundestag mandate on December 1, 1951.

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 333.

Individual evidence

↑ Herbig, Gustav . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 480 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Herbig, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, German envoy in Uruguay
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buschullersdorf , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	October 9, 1965
Place of death	Bad Kissingen

[1] Herbig, Gustav . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 480 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).