Rudolf Gertler

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Rudolf Gertler (born July 12, 1893 in Warnsdorf / Northern Bohemia ; † December 13, 1960 in Illertissen ) was a German politician ( GB / BHE ).

Life and work

Gertler graduated from the Technical Military Academy in Mödling near Vienna and then worked as a professional officer. He took part in the First World War as an artillery officer. Later he was authorized signatory and managing director of a knitwear factory in Schönlinde in the Sudetenland district of Rumburg for 15 years .

During the Second World War , he first took part as commander of an artillery regiment and later as a division and combat group leader, most recently as a colonel. Besides other awards, he received the German Cross in Gold .

After the end of the war he came to Bavaria as a displaced person. There he initially worked as an unskilled worker in Ulm . On August 8, 1948, he founded a local branch of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Vöhringen . In 1954 he was elected Bavarian state chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft. At times he was also the regional chairman of the Association of Expellees in Bavaria.

politics

Gertler was a member of the district council in the district of Illertissen and there at times also deputy district administrator. From November 7, 1956, when he replaced the late MP Ernst Ullrich , until his death he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the GB / BHE .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Augsburger Allgemeine . October 8, 2009.
  2. K. Erik Franzen, The fourth tribe of Bavaria. Patronage over the Sudeten Germans 1954-1974. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59150-7 , p. 197.