Paul Gebauer (trade unionist)

Paul Gebauer (born August 9, 1901 in Forst (Lausitz) , † November 18, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German trade unionist . He was the second chairman of the textile industry union in the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB).

Life

Gebauer, son of a saddler and wagon maker , attended elementary and technical school. He learned the trade of tulle weaver and then worked as a textile worker. In 1917 he joined the Socialist Workers 'Youth and in 1918 the German Textile Workers' Association (DTV). In 1919 he became a member of the USPD , in 1920 of the KPD . After Paul Levi was expelled in 1921, Gebauer became a member of the USPD again and joined the SPD in 1922 . From 1922 he was managing director of the DTV in Dresden. Gebauer was from 1926 to 1933 secretary at the main administration of the DTV and clerk for training matters as well as a member of the editorial staff of the association organ of the DTV. After passing the special school leaving examination for gifted students, Gebauer studied economics from 1928 to 1933 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He completed his studies with a degree in economics.

After the unions were smashed by the National Socialists , he played a key role in building up the illegal DTV. Gebauer was unemployed from 1933 to 1937, then he found a job as a clerk at the monitoring center for cotton yarns. On September 30, 1939, he was arrested and tried before the People's Court and the Dresden Higher Regional Court . On September 27, 1940, Gebauer was sentenced to two years in prison for “preparing for high treason ”. After his release he worked as an accountant and auditor from April 1942, and in October 1942 he was conscripted.

After the end of the war, he rejoined the KPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED in 1946 . From 1946 to 1949 Gebauer acted as the second chairman of IG Textil in the FDGB. From 1946 to 1950 he was also chairman of the regional executive committee of IG Textil Sachsen and a member of the central executive committee of IG Textil.

From 1949 to 1951 he was senior researcher at the German Economic Institute. In August 1951 Gebauer became editor of the magazine Die Arbeit. 1957 doctorate he in Dresden Dr. rer. oec. and became an employee in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR .

Fonts

• The great illusion. Unions and the Marshall Plan . The Free Trade Union, Berlin 1948.
• Current occasion and manifestations, as well as previous results of the rationalization campaign in West Germany . TH Dresden, Faculty of Engineering Economics, dissertation from January 25, 1957.

literature

• Willy Buschak : “Work in the smallest circle”. Trade unions in the resistance against National Socialism . Results-Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-87916-017-1 , p. 155f.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 906.
• Detlev Brunner: Social Democrats in the FDGB. From trade union to mass organization from 1945 to the early 1950s . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-863-7 , p. 365.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 2 [C-G]. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89626-352-8 , p. 231.
• Andreas Herbst : Gebauer, Paul. 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 .