Karl Trabalski

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Karl Trabalski (born May 16, 1923 in Leipzig ; † December 5, 2009 in Düsseldorf ) was a German politician and former member of the state parliament ( SPD ).

Life and work

Trabalski's grandfather Richard Lipinski (1927)

The son of the politician Stanislaw Trabalski and his wife Margarete geb. Lipinski, daughter of the trade unionist and politician Richard Lipinski , attended the Herder secondary school in Leipzig. During the National Socialist era , he was the only student at the school who did not join the Hitler Youth . After graduating from high school , he studied philosophy , political science , business administration and sociology at the University of Leipzig .

When his father was arrested on October 31, 1948 for his resistance to the Bolshevization of the SED, which was created through forced unification, and his family were also placed under house arrest, he had to break off his studies and, as the eldest son, take care of the family support. His father was released in 1950 until he was arrested again in 1952 and only sentenced to six and a half years in prison in 1954 for " inciting war and boycotting ". At the request of Karl Trabalski, the Rostock regional court overturned this judgment on September 30, 1996 as it was contrary to the rule of law .

Karl Trabalski was to be convicted in a show trial because of his social democratic attitude and his statements about the Soviet Union. However, he escaped this on April 29, 1951 by fleeing to the West. In Cologne he completed his studies with a degree in business administration . After completing his studies, he worked from 1951 to 1952 as a commercial clerk at the Düsseldorf-Ost housing cooperative . From 1952 to 1967 he worked as a scientific advisor in the Economic Institute (WWI) of the DGB . He then worked as a business economist in industry and housing. From 1974 to 1988 Trabalski was a paid board member of the Düsseldorf-Ost housing association.

After the German reunification , Karl Trabalski got involved in the renovation of the Leipzig housing stock at the request of Johannes Rau . The Mayor of Leipzig Hinrich Lehmann-Grube (SPD) proposed his party friend Trabalski as managing director of the newly founded Leipzig housing and construction company . The Leipzig city council elected Trabalski on December 15, 1990 with immediate effect as the successor to the interim managing director Manfred Jäger. Trabalski, who worked in various housing associations for many years, had no experience in business management. He made investments in real estate with unclear ownership, which caused damage to the city of Leipzig of over DM 400 million. In 1992 he was dismissed as managing director.

Trabalski became a member of the SPD in 1951. In his party he had been a member of the board of the Niederrhein district since 1972 and, since 1973, deputy chairman of the state committee and chairman of the state working group for urban development and housing policy of the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1952 Trabalski joined the trade, banking and insurance union .

MP

From July 24, 1966 to May 30, 1990 Trabalski was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . He was directly elected in constituency 45 (Düsseldorf II), only in the 8th electoral period did he move into the state parliament via the state list (list position 20) of his party. In the SPD parliamentary group from 1967 to 1980 he was the spokesman for housing and urban development and from 1975 to 1985 a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee.

On March 5, 1969, May 23, 1979 and May 23, 1984 he was a member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President .

Honorary positions

Trabalski had been a member of the Düsseldorf Workers' Welfare Association since 1958 . In 1992, after the death of his wife Ursula Trabalski , he took over the chairmanship of the Gerresheim local association , and in 2003 he was appointed honorary chairman of the local association. Influenced by his own experience, he was committed to helping people who were expelled from their homes, refugees and resettlers. For this he received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1987 .

From 1966 to 1986 Trabalski was active in the German Red Cross in Düsseldorf.

literature

  • Walled up and plastered . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1993, pp. 120 f . ( online - November 22, 1993 ).
  • Heiko Jüngerkes: Obituary Karl Trabalski. In: Our roof. Member magazine of the housing cooperative Düsseldorf-Ost eG. H. 25, May 2010, p. 10 ( online ; PDF; 5.3 MB).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The arrest was lifted after a week. The social ostracism made itself felt for years. Information from Eleonore Trabalski, a sister of Karl.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rostock Regional Court: Order in the rehabilitation case of Mr. Stanislaw Trabalki of September 30, 1996, Az. II PRO 174/96 - 385 RHS 52/96 - Rostock public prosecutor's office
  2. ↑ Leipzig City Archives : Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1990 (PDF; 234 kB)
  3. ↑ Leipzig City Archives: Leipzig Chronicle of the Year 1994 (PDF; 98 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Trabalski, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2009
Place of death Dusseldorf