Otto Rühle (politician, 1914)

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Otto Rühle (born February 20, 1914 in Zuffenhausen , † April 6, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German politician of the GDR block party NDPD . He was chairman of the NDPD state committee for Saxony-Anhalt and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR . From 1949 to 1952 he was first Minister of Transport and then Minister of Health in Saxony-Anhalt.

Life

The son of a post office clerk attended secondary school and the higher administrative school in Stuttgart. He worked from 1929 to 1935 as an administrative employee in the public service. From 1935 to 1939 he did military service in the Wehrmacht . On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . From 1939 to 1941 he was an employee of the DRK . From 1941 he did military service as a paymaster in a medical company in the Wehrmacht. At the end of January 1943 Otto Rühle was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets as chief paymaster of a field hospital with the rank of first lieutenant . In the Jelabuga officers' camp he became an anti-fascist and in 1943 a member of the NKFD . He attended anti- school schools in Krasnogorsk and Talizi, and then became a teacher for anti-school students himself.

In November 1947, Rühle initially returned to southwest Germany. His denazification proceedings , which he opened in front of the Ludwigsburg Chamber of Justice that same month , in which he classified himself as a follower , was discontinued in February 1948 in accordance with the Christmas Amnesty Ordinance of February 5, 1947. In 1948 Rühle worked as a teacher and head of the State Administration School in Dessau . In 1948/49 he was senior councilor in the interior ministry of the state government of Saxony-Anhalt. In April 1948 he became co-founder and deputy state chairman of the NDPD in Saxony-Anhalt with Jakob-Adolf Heilmann and Siegfried Dallmann . Since then he has also been a member of the NDPD main committee. On July 13, 1948, as a member of the provisional zone committee of the NDPD in Halle (Saale), he announced the NDPD's application to be accepted as an official representative in the People's Council . After the death of Jakob-Adolf Heilmann, he was chairman of the state board of Saxony-Anhalt of the NDPD from 1950 to 1952.

In 1949 he was at the University of Leipzig Dr. rer. pole. PhD, habilitation in 1952. From October 1949 to November 1950 he acted as Minister of Transport, from November 1950 to 1952 as Minister of Health in Saxony-Anhalt. Since February 1950 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front , first as a member, later as a member of the Presidium and Vice-President.

In 1949 he became a member of the First and Second People's Council of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR. From 1950 to 1969 he was a member of the NDPD parliamentary group of the People's Chamber, from 1954 to 1963 he was deputy chairman of the committee for health care and since 1967 a member of the committee for popular education.

1952/53 he was chairman of the NDPD district executive committee in Dresden. In 1953 he became editor of the NDPD central organ National-Zeitung and was relieved of his position because of "false articles". From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Neubrandenburg district assembly and deputy chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district. At the same time he was deputy chairman of the NDPD district board in Neubrandenburg. From 1958 he was a research associate of the economic council at the council of the district of Neubrandenburg.

In 1955 he became professor of political economy at the Humboldt University in Berlin , in 1958 professor with a teaching position at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald , in 1959 research assistant at the Research Center for Agricultural Economics Anklam of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences and in 1963 director of the "Rubenow- Institute “for educational research of the Philosophical Faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald.

In March 1957, the native Swabian and now a member of the People's Chamber traveled as “Dr. Rühle from Stuttgart “more or less camouflaged to Bonn, in order to sound out the positions of the then finance minister of the Federal Republic of Germany Fritz Schäffer with regard to the existence of two German states.

From March 1961 he was Vice President of the German-African Society. He also served as a member of the Urania Presidium .

Rühle died at the age of 55 from the long-term effects of a serious traffic accident.

Fonts

  • From subject to citizen , Kongreß-Verlag, 1957
  • Bread for six billion , Urania-Verlag Leipzig / Jena / Berlin, 1964.
  • Recovery in Yelabuga. Kessel Stalingrad - Antifa School for a New Germany , Autobiographical Report, Verlag der Nation Berlin, 1967

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , pp. 284-285.
  • Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period. Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 379f.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 4th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1964, p. 494.
  • Olaf Kappelt , Brown Book DDR - Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 347f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ denazification documents Bu 18840 in stock EL 902/15 Spruchkammer 30 - Ludwigsburg case file in the State Archives Ludwigsburg .
  2. ^ Neue Zeit , July 14, 1948, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Günter Müchler : "Nobody knows that I'm in East Berlin" - Current story: The secret meeting between Fritz Schäffer and Vinzenz Müller , Deutschlandfunk - " Background " of June 11, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Rühle, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Zuffenhausen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1969
Place of death Berlin