Horst Gibner

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Horst Gibner (born August 23, 1940 in Hirschberg am See ; † April 2, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German CDU politician and the last transport minister of the GDR .

Life

Gibner was born in Hirschberg am See in the Reichsgau Sudetenland and, after attending secondary school at the Dresden Transport University, completed a course of study, which he completed in 1964 as a graduate engineer for railway safety and telecommunications technology. From 1964 to 1968 he worked as a development engineer in the plant for signal and security technology in Berlin. From 1969 to 1979 Gibner worked as an employee in development departments of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the Ministry of Transport of the GDR.

Gibner became a member of the GDR bloc party CDU in 1971 and served from 1979 to 1981 as the district councilor for housing policy and the housing industry of Berlin-Friedrichshain in GDR local politics. From January 1982 to 1990 he was the successor to Wolfgang Schmahl as chairman of the CDU district committee in Berlin-Treptow . From 1981 to 1990 he worked again in the Ministry of Transport, this time as the main advisor in the Signaling and Security Administration.

After the first free elections to the People's Chamber, in April 1990, Gibner became the GDR's last transport minister in the de Maizière government . After German reunification, he was elected to the 12th German Bundestag in 1990 via the CDU state list in Berlin, where he was involved, among other things, in legislation on rail reform . For the election to the 13th German Bundestag, he received only one hopeless place on the list.

Subsequently, from the end of 1994, he was entrusted with the modernization of control and safety technology, telecommunications and electrotechnical systems as head of equipment at the planning company Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit . In this capacity, he also oversaw the introduction of ETCS technology on the Ludwigsfelde - Bitterfeld pilot line . He devoted himself to this task until October 2000. In 1997 he was appointed by the board of directors of Deutsche Bahn AG as group representative for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , where he coordinated the cooperation between the various areas of the railway and the partners involved in the implementation of many modernization projects.

On September 1st, 2005 he retired and died of cancer after a long illness. His grave is in the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery .

Awards

literature

  • Kürschner's People's Manual of the German Bundestag 12th electoral period
  • DB AG press release. 82/2005.
  • Horst Gibner passed away. In: Railway magazine. 44 (6): 14, 2006.
  • Short biography about:  Gibner, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of April 14, 1990
  2. ↑ New Times of January 22, 1982
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 11, 1984
personal data
SURNAME Gabner, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg am See
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2006
Place of death Berlin