Lothar Geissler

This article deals with the politician Lothar Geissler, for people with a similar name see Lothar Geisler .

Lothar Geißler (born December 10, 1927 in Piesteritz ) is a former German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the council of the district of Neubrandenburg .

Life

Geissler, the son of a worker and a housewife, attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith at the Piesteritz nitrogen plant between 1942 and 1944 . Shortly before the end of the war , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in February 1945 . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British as a sailor . He was released in December 1945.

From 1946 Geißler worked again as a fitter in the nitrogen works Piesteritz. In the same year he joined the SED. In 1946/47 he was a concrete worker in Thale and from 1947 to 1950 a member of the company fire brigade in the Thale ironworks. In 1950 he joined the German People's Police . 1950/51 he was head of political culture, political teacher and fire chief in the people's police district offices in Halberstadt , Wernigerode and Magdeburg . From 1951 to 1954 he worked as a fitter and smelter at VEB Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Thale, where he was the first secretary of the FDJ company organization . In 1954 he took up direct studies at the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED, which he continued in 1955 as a correspondence course . From 1955 to 1960 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Bernburg . From April 1960 to 1962 he was first deputy chairman of the council of the Halle district (successor to Kurt Roßner ). 1962 initially acting chairman, Geissler acted from July 1962 to March 29, 1967 as chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district. From April 1964 to January 1965 he was also chairman of the district agricultural council in Neubrandenburg. 1967/68 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx". He then worked in the cadre department of the GDR Council of Ministers .

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 101.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 86.
• Andreas Herbst :  Geissler, Lothar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 201.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Garling new chairman of the council . In: Neues Deutschland , March 30, 1967, p. 2.