Herbert Geisler

Return of an FDJ delegation from the Soviet Union at Schönefeld Airport (August 1947), from left to right: Herbert Geisler, Robert Menzel , Edith Baumann , Erich Honecker and Heinz Keßler

Herbert Geisler (born June 25, 1921 in Bedra , Querfurt district , † December 21, 1986 in Hermeskeil ) was a German politician ( LDP , FDP ).

Herbert Geisler visited the son of a senior staff director, a gymnasium , and put 1939 in Berlin , the High School from. After the labor service he started studying German, history and sports at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and worked as an assistant teacher at the Leibnizgymnasium. He then became a soldier in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war . After the Second World War , he joined the LDP in January 1946. He had worked in the youth secretariat since August 1946, and in March 1947 he became a state youth officer and board member of the LDP regional association in Berlin. In the same month he was a co-founder of the Free German Youth (FDJ). He became a member of the Central Council of the FDJ and at the same time secretary in the FDJ Central Council. He resigned from this post in January 1948.

Geisler studied philosophy and became an editorial volunteer. In 1948, together with Rainer Hildebrandt , Ernst Benda and others, he founded the resistance group against the SED dictatorship, the combat group against inhumanity . When he was elected to the city council of Greater Berlin in 1948 , he was elected to the city council for the LDP . In October 1950 he resigned from the FDP, in the same year he resigned from the city council due to the new election in December .

In 1972 Geisler passed the teacher examination.

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst : Biographical handbook of the Berlin city councilors and representatives 1946–1963 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Vol. 14). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 102.
• Hans-Volker Schwarz: The Berlin Liberals in the focus of the East-West conflict 1945–1956 - from the regional association of the LDP Greater Berlin to the FDP Berlin (West) and LDP (D) Berlin (East). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007 (= Schriften zur Europa- und Deutschlandforschung , 13), p. 660.