Hellmut Gossing

Hellmut Gossing (born April 16, 1905 in Taulensee , East Prussia , † August 30, 1974 in Bonn ) was a German politician GB / BHE , later the CDU .

Life

Gossing attended elementary and grammar school and took up an apprenticeship in a bank after completing his education. From February 1934 he was Germany's youngest savings bank director in Bütow in Pomerania . In May 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP .

After the Second World War , in which he served at the front for five years and was wounded four times, Gossing moved to West Germany as a displaced person and settled in Fallingbostel . While doing military service, he had become the commander of a junior officers' school. As head of a compensation office in Fallingbostel, he looked after displaced persons and refugees after the war.

In addition, he founded a very successful development cooperative for housing construction and the first organization for expellees in the Heide, ran for the Bundestag as early as 1949 and was a co-founder of the later Federation of Expelled Germans in Lower Saxony and the Central Association of Expelled Germans in Bonn, to whose Presidium he belonged for a long time. He is co-author of the Charter of German Expellees from 1950. From July 1953 he was a ministerial advisor.

Party and MP

For the first German Bundestag , Gossing had run unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the Fallingbostel - Hoya constituency , because the occupying powers had not allowed displaced parties. After the licensing requirement ended, he took part in the founding of the BHE, of which he had been a member of the Presidium since November 1951. From May 6, 1955 until his resignation on July 3, 1959, he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament for the BHE . He later joined the CDU, for which he ran unsuccessfully in the Bundestag election in 1965 in the Schaumburg constituency .

Public offices

Gossing served from 1959 to 1963 as State Secretary in the Ministry for Expellees, Refugees and War Damaged Persons of the State of Lower Saxony .

literature

• Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, p. 116.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heike Amos: Associations of Displaced Persons in the Crosshairs: Activities of the GDR State Security 1949 to 1989 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, p. 163.