Herbert Wetzstein

Herbert Wetzstein (born February 8, 1898 in Plauen , † after 1954) was a German politician ( LDPD ). He was Lord Mayor of the city of Plauen, Minister of the State Government of Thuringia , Chairman of the LDP State Association of Saxony and Member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Wetzstein, son of a merchant, attended the state high school. During the First World War he was drafted into the German Army for military service and was deployed on the Western Front in 1917/18 .

After his return, he began to study law and folk sciences in 1919, which he broke off to start his father's hand embroidery. In 1923 he became a co-owner of his father's company. Until 1945 he was not politically active.

In 1945 he was one of the founders of the Plauen LDP local group. In October 1946 he became district chairman of the LDP Plauen. From January 13, 1947 to March 9, 1950 he was Lord Mayor of the city of Plauen. In 1948/49 Wetzstein was a member of the 1st and 2nd People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone and from 1949 to 1954 a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. From February 24, 1950 to November 21, 1950, he served as Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the Thuringian state government in the Eggerath I cabinet . On February 24, 1951, at the 5th state party conference of the LDP Saxony in Dresden, elected to succeed Walter Thürmer as the state chairman of the LDP Saxony, he was replaced by Artur Schlesinger in the same year .

Web links

• Andreas Krone: Plauen 1945 to 1949 online, PDF p. 186 (accessed on April 12, 2016).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New guidelines at the LDP party congress . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 1951, p. 2.