Luitpold Steidle

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Luitpold Steidle at the 8th party conference of the CDU in Weimar in 1956
On May 26, 1954, Hanns Hopp from the Deutsche Bauakademie hands over the key to the first construction phase of the Tbc Hospital Bad Berka to the Minister of Health, Luitpold Steidle (left) .

Luitpold Steidle (born March 12, 1898 in Ulm , † July 27, 1984 in Weimar ) was a German officer and politician in the GDR. He belonged to the CDU .

Life

The son of a senior war judge from a Catholic family served as a 17-year-old volunteer with the Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment as a leader of an MG company after completing his high school education in Munich . After the end of the First World War, Steidle began studying agricultural science at the Technical University of Munich in the first semester of the post-war period in 1918, but soon preferred to do practical training. He trained as a farmer in Hohenpolding near Taufkirchen in Lower Bavaria and Graßlfing near Olching in Upper Bavaria .

From 1920 Steidle was a self-employed farmer in Loibersdorf (Upper Bavaria) and in 1926 accepted a job as an estate inspector on Kampehl (Ruppiner Land). In 1928 he became a stud inspector in Beberbeck (North Hesse). On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP and was excluded again after a short time. After Steidle lost his job in 1933, he worked as an insurance agent in 1934. In the same year, the reserve lieutenant reactivated and joined the Reichswehr. In 1942 he was promoted to colonel . As commander of the 767 Grenadier Regiment, he was captured by the Soviets in 1943 in the Stalingrad pocket. As a prisoner of war , he was one of the founders of the Association of German Officers , of which he became vice-president. In his absence, Steidle was therefore sentenced to death in the German Reich . His volume of memoirs Decision on the Volga (1969) describes this path.

Until the end of the Second World War, Steidle worked as the front representative of the National Committee for Free Germany and was part of the extended editorial team of the station “Free Germany” . Between 1945 and 1948 Steidle was Vice President of the German Administration for Agriculture and Forestry in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) . In 1946 the Catholic joined the CDU. Between 1948 and 1949 he took over the deputy chairmanship of the German Economic Commission in the Soviet Zone.

In 1949, Steidle was elected to the Provisional People's Chamber (via a standard list for the CDU, which has now been aligned) . He served as Minister for Labor and Health of the GDR from 1949 to 1950 and as Minister for Health from 1950 to 1958. He advised on the establishment of the NVA .

From 1950 to 1971 he was a member of the People's Chamber .

From 1960 until his retirement in 1969, Steidle was Lord Mayor of Weimar .

Bernhard Ludwig von Mutius was a cousin of Steidle.

Awards

Fonts

  • The National Committee for Free Germany , Burgscheidungen 1960
  • The Great Alliance , Burgscheidungen 1963
  • Decision on the Volga , Berlin 1969
  • Documents family archive, Bayreuth, 2010

literature

Web links

Commons : Luitpold Steidle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decision on the Volga , p. 61 u. 62
  2. ↑ Decision on the Volga , p. 62ff.
  3. ↑ Decision on the Volga , p. 64
personal data
SURNAME Steidle, Luitpold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and Lord Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1984
Place of death Weimar