Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans

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Hans Paul Ganter-Gilmans (1951)

Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans (born April 30, 1917 in Vienna ; † January 20, 1955 ) was a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament and the People's Chamber as well as State Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade in the GDR .

Life

The son of a self-employed businessman attended school and grammar school in Vienna and Schöneiche near Berlin from 1922 at the age of five , skipped another class until he graduated from high school and studied at the commercial college in Munich and Vienna in 1933/34, graduating as Business graduate . He then worked from 1935 to 1938 as a trainee and salesman in a Viennese company and in 1938/39 he ran his own trading company in Berlin. The draft for military service in the Wehrmacht on September 1, 1939 meant the end of his commercial career and the loss of his company. Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans was a member of the SPD during the Weimar Republic .

In November 1941, a German court martial in Paris sentenced him to one year in prison for degrading military strength . At the same time he was demoted from private to radio operator and discharged from the Wehrmacht. After serving three months, he was sent to a concentration camp . It was only thanks to the persistent petitions of his father, Peter-Paul Ganter-Gilmans, that the 25-year-old Catholic was returned to a prison after six months in a concentration camp, from where his tormentors released him in October 1942. This release was followed in December of the same year by the arrest of the father, who died in October 1943 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Shortly after the death of her father, the National Socialists abducted Auguste Ganter-Gilman's mother from Handelstrasse 20 in Cologne to the Theresienstadt ghetto , from which the Red Army only liberated her in 1945 . His brother was killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 . His parents were baptized Catholics and his mother came from a Jewish family. Ganter-Gilmans worked as a buyer and seller in Cologne from 1942 to 1944. A sudden air raid in October 1944 finally encouraged Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans to flee before being arrested again. After illegal stays in Neuenkirchen and Mannheim, he came to Potsdam with his fiancée Margot and their daughter, who was born in May 1944, shortly before the end of the war .

Immediately after the liberation from National Socialism on May 15, 1945, he was appointed city councilor for trade and supply and head of the food office in Potsdam by the Soviet occupying forces . On June 2, 1945, Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans and Margot Ganter-Gilmans were the first bride and groom to get married in Potsdam after the end of the war. With the announcement of the founding call of the CDU on June 26, 1945, he joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and became district chairman in Potsdam. Together with the 17 years older and also Catholic businessman Wilhelm Wolf , he actively participated in the development of the Brandenburg state association of the CDU. Here he belonged to the left wing of the party around Otto Nuschke, who ensured, for example, that the Brandenburg CDU regional association supported the land reform and the new farmers program. Ganter-Gilmans was also one of the founders of the VVN . In 1946/47 he was head of the transport department in the Ministry of Finance of the State of Brandenburg . From October 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament . Here he took over the management of the CDU parliamentary group until August 1947 and from January 1948 chaired the committee for district and community affairs (successor to Willi Hein ). From August 1947 to April 1948, Ganter-Gilmans was Ministerial Director of the Transport Department in the Ministry of Finance of the State of Brandenburg.

From March 1948 he was a member of the German People's Council and from 1949 until his death in 1955 a member of the People's Chamber . On April 10, 1948, he was appointed to the German Economic Commission (DWK) by the Supreme Chief of the Soviet Military Administration, Marshal Sokolowski , where he took over the management of the Central Administration for Trade and Supply. On April 17, 1948 he was introduced into his office by the previous boss, Georg Handke . A few months later he and Otto Nuschke took part in the celebrations for the 31st anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Moscow as a member of the delegation of the German People's Council.

From May 1948 to March 1949 he was a member of the CDU state committee in Brandenburg. On September 20, 1948 he was elected a member of the main board at the 3rd party congress of the CDU. When the German Democratic Republic was founded in October 1949, Prime Minister Grotewohl appointed him to the role of State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade . When the new government was formed on September 19, 1954, he became Deputy Minister in that Ministry.

On January 28, 1950 he was appointed a member of the Political Committee (from 1954 presidium) of the main board of the CDU. After Hermann Gerigk's leave of absence , the Political Committee commissioned him in April 1952 with the provisional role of CDU regional chairman of the state of Brandenburg.

Ganter-Gilmans died after a short, serious illness at the age of 37 as a result of a hernia operation and was buried in the New Cemetery in Potsdam .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Always on the side of progress - Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans would be 70 years old . In: Neue Zeit , April 29, 1987, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Margot Ganter-Gilmans: Life on Hope, in Heinrich Fink Hg .: Stronger than fear. The six million who couldn't find a savior. Union, Berlin 1968, pp. 219–222, here p. 219.
  3. ↑ Auguste Ganter-Gilmans, b. April 17, 1883, survived and returned to Cologne in 1945. Institute Theresienstädter Initiative: Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch. The victims of the transport of Jews from Germany to Theresienstadt. Prague 2000, p. 367
  4. ↑ Our candidates on October 15, 1950 - Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans . In: Neue Zeit , September 30, 1950, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Margot Ganter-Gilmans: Life on Hope, 1968 in: Fink, Heinrich (Ed.), Stronger than fear. The six million who couldn't find a savior, 1968 Berlin (East), pp. 219–222 / 220
  6. ↑ Cf. Friedrich Kind: Christian Democrats in the Struggle for a New Democracy. On the development and contribution of the Brandenburg State Association of the CDU within the political organizations of society during the anti-fascist-democratic upheaval (1945–1949 / 50), Berlin 1984, p. 19.
  7. ↑ Appointed to the DWK . In: Neue Zeit , April 11, 1948, p. 2.
  8. ↑ Marshal Sokolowski thanks . In: Neue Zeit , April 18, 1948, p. 2.
  9. ↑ See time table on the history of the CDU 1945–1987, published by the Secretariat of the Main Board of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany, Berlin 1987, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Neues Deutschland , January 30, 1950, p. 2.
  11. ↑ State Chairman Gerigk on leave . In: Neue Zeit , April 10, 1952, p. 2.
  12. ^ Obituary in Neue Zeit , Sat. January 22, 1955, p. 1.
  13. ^ Neue Zeit , January 27, 1955, p. 1.
  14. ↑ on the Jewish origin of Hans-Paul and the persecution that followed from 1942 to 1945. A report by his wife
personal data
SURNAME Ganter-Gilmans, Hans-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1955