Hans Reingruber

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Hans Reingruber (center), between Georg Handke (left) and Paul Wandel (right), November 1950
Hans Reingruber 1951 (right)

Hans Reingruber (born April 30, 1888 in Elberfeld , today Wuppertal , † January 14, 1964 in East Berlin ) was a German transport scientist and politician . He was the first Minister for Transport in the GDR .

Education and college

After attending grammar school, Hans Reingruber studied civil engineering and engineering from 1908 to 1912. a. at the Technical University of Hanover . From 1916 to 1933 he was Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Transport . After he refused to join the NSDAP and its organizations in 1933 , he had to leave the ministry. He was then from 1934 to 1945 professor for railways and transport at the Technical University of Dresden , from 1946 to 1948 there prorector and from 1950 to 1952 dean of the local university for transport " Friedrich List ". He was heavily involved - now already Minister for Transport in the Council of Ministers of the GDR - for the development of the new degree course in traffic engineering at this faculty.

politics

In 1946 Hans Reingruber became a city ​​councilor in Dresden and a member of the council committee for the reconstruction of the city and from 1946 to 1950 the only member of the Kulturbund in the Saxon state parliament . In these functions he earned high recognition for his efforts to rebuild the city of Dresden, which was badly damaged in the war. In March 1948 he became a member of the German People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ). On April 10, 1948, Hans Reingruber was appointed head of the central traffic administration of the German Economic Commission (DWK) (successor of the previous president of the central traffic administration Wilhelm Fitzner ). On May 30, 1949 he was elected to the presidium of the German People's Council and from 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the provisional People's Chamber . On October 7, 1949, he became the first Minister for Transport in the GDR's Council of Ministers. Since he again offended the state party here, he had to give up his office on April 30, 1953, when the GDR Ministry of Transport, which had existed up to that point, was fundamentally restructured and a separate Ministry for Railways was created. The reason for his fall was also his generous use of a railway saloon car for his summer vacation in 1952. In recognition of his services to traffic sciences and transport , he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Transport in 1953 and the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1958 and 1963 .

After his fall, he kept his professorship for railways and transport at the Technical University of Dresden until his death. In June 1957 Reingruber was commissioned by the State Secretariat for Higher Education of the GDR with the management of the Institute for Building and Road Construction of the Faculty of Building at the TU Dresden.

Reingruber lived in Berlin-Wendenschloß and died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 75 in East Berlin.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Reingruber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , April 11, 1948, p. 2
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 31, 1949, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Borbe.
  4. ^ Obituary in: Neues Deutschland , January 16, 1964, p. 2.
  5. ^ New Germany , June 23, 1957, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Obituary notice of the rector of the University of Transportation Friedrich List : In Neues Deutschland , January 19, 1964, p. 10.2
personal data
SURNAME Reingruber, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdV, Minister for Transport of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld , today Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1964
Place of death East Berlin