Karl Svihalek
Karl Svihalek (born November 5, 1921 in Vienna , † May 9, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and politician ( SED ). He was the chairman of the central board of the Land and Forestry Union, a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber .
Life
Svihalek was born into a working class family in Vienna. After attending elementary school and secondary school, he learned the trade of a machinist . After his apprenticeship he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in April 1939 and at the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 for the Wehrmacht . In June 1944 he was taken prisoner by the United States , from which he was released on June 18, 1945.
After his release, Svihalek worked from August 1945 to April 1948 as a machine fitter at Baumeister Kurz and at the Hansen tool and machine factory in Neustadt-Glewe . In September 1946 he joined the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and in December 1947 the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1948 he became a member of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and in 1949 a member of the Association of German Consumer Cooperatives. Svihalek was a shop steward and deputy chairman of the Neustadt-Glewe local board in the metal industry union . After attending the state trade union school of the FDGB in Mueß / Schwerin and taking part in a special course at the state party school in Mecklenburg of the SED, Svihalek became a full-time trade union official in May 1948.
At first he was youth secretary (1948/49) and head of the training and education department at the Ludwigslust district executive of the FDGB. In May 1949 he was elected second secretary and in June 1950 first secretary of the Ludwigslust district committee of the FDGB. In his capacity as first secretary of the district executive committee of the FDGB, he was also a member of the district leadership and the secretariat of the district leadership Ludwigslust of the SED.
From January to August 1951 Svihalek attended the first main course at the university of the German trade unions "Fritz Heckert" in Bernau near Berlin and subsequently became an instructor and department head in the FDGB state board of Mecklenburg. In 1951/52 he worked as an instructor in the organization department and as a department head and was a member of the secretariat of the Mecklenburg regional board of the FDGB. From February to September 1952 he acted as state chairman of the Land and Forest Union for Mecklenburg, based in Schwerin .
The members of the central board of the Land and Forest union then elected him deputy chairman and, on June 10, 1953, chairman of the central board of the Land and Forest union. He held this position until October 1961. As chairman of the Land and Forestry Union, Svihalek was also a member of the FDGB's federal executive committee and its executive committee. From 1953 to 1961 he was also a member of the administrative committee of the International Federation of Agricultural and Forestry Workers in the World Trade Union Confederation .
From 1958 until his recall in 1961, Svihalek was also a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. In the Volkskammer he belonged to the FDGB parliamentary group and was a member of the committee for agriculture and forestry.
In October 1961 he was given a "severe reprimand" by the SED. He was expelled from the Central Committee of the SED and released from his functions because of “party-damaging and immoral behavior”.
Fonts (selection)
- The BKV - an important means for the socialist transformation of agriculture . In: Neuer Weg , 4 (1958), pp. 380–382.
- The struggle of the farm workers has paid off . ( 50 years of the union of agricultural, gardening and forest workers .) In: Neues Deutschland , March 3, 1959.
Awards
literature
- People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (ed.): Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (3rd electoral period) . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 412.
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 345.
- Lothar Lindner , Hermann Hunger (Red.): The industrial union for agriculture and forestry in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 to 1949, the union for land and forest - from 1968 union for land, food and forest - in the German Democratic Republic until 1990 . (= Looking back , Volume V). Federal board of the industrial union building-agrar-environment, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 265f.
- Andreas Herbst : Svihalek, Karl . In: Dieter Dowe, Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990) . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
Individual evidence
Willi Huebner (1946–1947) | Willi Wolf (1947–1948) | Willi Beuster (1948–1949) | Anton Jadasch (1949–1950, officiating) | Florian Schenk (1950–1953) | Karl Svihalek (1953–1961) | Horst Reinhardt (1961–1962, officiating) | Fritz Müller (1962–1984) | Horst Zimmermann (1984–1989) | Marianne Sandig (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Svihalek, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (SED), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1978 |
| Place of death | Berlin |