Josef Rambo

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Josef Rambo (* 1898 in Oberhausen ; † after 1950) was a Saxon politician ( Eastern CDU ), a member of the Saxon state parliament and vice-president of the Provisional People's Chamber .

Josef Rambo did military service in the First World War from 1916 . After the war he worked from 1919 as a train dispatcher, office manager, accountant and insurance salesman. From 1925 to 1945 he was head of the Leipzig branch of Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank.

In 1945 he was one of the founding members of the CDU in Leipzig and became managing director of the CDU district association in Leipzig. In 1946 he became director of the Leipziger Issuing and Girobank . In the local elections in 1946 he was elected to the Leipzig city council. He was considered an informal employee of the Soviet secret service MGB and controlled by the SMAD. In January 1949 he was appointed second mayor of Leipzig and was responsible for the labor and social welfare department in the magistrate, which had previously been administered by mayor Erich Zeigner . The CDU had proposed Walter Hlawaczek for this office (as the successor to Ernst Eichelbaum , who fled to West Germany in 1948) . Instead, however, Josef Rambo was elected. In November 1949 he was elected to the newly created revision committee of the CDU.

On January 18, 1950, he became a member of the Provisional People's Chamber (successor to the sick Ludwig Kirsch ) and on February 22, 1950, Vice President (successor to Hugo Hickmann ). With the fall of Hickmann, he made a career leap. In May 1950 he became President of the Administrative Court of Saxony and moved up to the state parliament. At the state party convention of the Saxon CDU from June 23 to 26, 1950 in Dresden, he was elected to succeed Hickmann as the state chairman of the CDU. To ensure that Rambo would be elected, the election was conducted openly.

After a few months in office, Rambo fled to the West on September 9, 1950. His portrayal that he had fled the increasing repression against the democratic forces in the GDR was not believed by the public. The CDU's east office assumed that the escape had also taken place on behalf of the MGB and refused to work with Rambo. On September 12, 1950, the Political Committee of the main board of the CDU expelled him from the party “for immoral behavior towards female employees of the party”.

literature

  • Michael Richter : Die Ost-CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity , 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0916-9 , page 166 (MGB cooperation), page 175 (election as mayor), page 416 (short biography) .
  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber: SBZ manual. 1993, ISBN 3486552627 , page 314, page 1000.
  • Julian Lubini: The administrative jurisdiction in the countries of the SBZ / GDR 1945-1952 , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153526-0 , p. 144.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The largest city in the zone gives an account . In: Neue Zeit , February 12, 1949, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Clear political decision of the CDU . In: Neue Zeit, November 15, 1949, p. 4.
  3. ↑ 8th meeting of the People's Chamber . In: Neue Zeit, January 19, 1950, p. 1.
  4. ↑ 12th plenary session of the People's Chamber . In: Neue Zeit, February 23, 1950, p. 1.
  5. ↑ The time 38/1950
  6. ↑ cf. "The Rambo Case"; in: PZ archive 3 of October 1, 1950 and "Josef Rambo fled to West Berlin"; in: UiD 72 of September 16, 1950 and “The trust scornfully abused”; in: The Union of September 16, 1950
  7. ↑ Pure table . In: Neue Zeit, September 13, 1950, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Rambo, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU of the GDR), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH after 1950