Helmut Greulich

This article describes a trade unionist and politician; for the television journalist of the same name, see Helmut Greulich (journalist) .

Helmut Greulich (born January 17, 1923 in Hanover ; † July 5, 1993 in St. Blasien ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ). From 1970 to 1974 he was Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1974 to 1976 Lower Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs .

Life

After attending primary school, Greulich completed an apprenticeship as a tool mechanic and then worked in his learned profession at Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG (Hanomag) in Hanover. From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Navy . After the end of the war, he continued his work at Hanomag, where he began to work for the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and since 1948 has been doing youth work for the DGB district of Lower Saxony. In 1953 he was elected chairman of the DGB district association Hameln-Rinteln, was initially a full-time member of the board from 1963 and then chairman of the DGB district Lower Saxony-Bremen from 1966 to 1970.

Greulich joined the SPD in 1946 and initially dealt with local politics. He was a council member and senator in Hameln from 1956 to 1963 , served as mayor from 1959 to 1961 and was then mayor of the city. Through his communal offices he found his way into state politics and was now a member of the board of the SPD district of Hanover and the state committee of the SPD Lower Saxony .

Greulich was elected as a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament in 1963 , to which he was a member until 1978. In the state elections of 1963 and 1967 he won the direct mandate in the constituency of Hameln-Stadt, in the state election in 1970 he entered parliament via the state list and in the state election in 1974 he won a direct mandate in the constituency of Northeim . From 1967 to 1970 he was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. In the 1965 federal election , he ran unsuccessfully for the Bundestag on the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony .

After the formation of a sole SPD government , Greulich was appointed Minister of Economics and Public Works in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Alfred Kubel on July 8, 1970 . In this function he was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG . After the formation of a social-liberal coalition and the resignation of Kurt Partzsch from the state government, he was appointed Minister of Social Affairs on July 10, 1974 . At times he was next to Helmut Kasimier and Karl Ravens as a potential successor to the office of Prime Minister. However, he was eliminated from the race because he suffered a heart attack in May 1975 . After neither Kasimier nor Ravens were able to prevail in the election for Prime Minister and the CDU candidate Ernst Albrecht was elected instead , Greulich resigned from the ministerial office on February 13, 1976 and was replaced by Hermann Schnipkoweit .

See also

• Cabinet Kubel I - Cabinet Kubel II

literature

• Greulich, Helmut . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 397 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

Web links

• Helmut Greulich , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/1974 of October 28, 1974, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Photo by Helmut Greulich at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rundblick 2008/09, p. 3.
2. ↑ Scratch on the face . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1974, p. 27 ( Online - July 1, 1974 ).
3. ↑ Shaped by the milieu . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1975, p. 43-44 ( Online - June 23, 1975 ).
4. ↑ CDU: God helped us . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1976, p. 19-29 ( Online - Jan. 19, 1976 ).