Walter Gäbler

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Walter Gäbler (born August 12, 1900 in Dresden ; † May 8, 1974 ) was a German administrative officer and politician ( SED ). From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Saxon State Parliament and from 1946 to 1950 Minister of the Saxon State Government .

Life

Gäbler was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was dismissed from civil service in 1933. He then worked as a freelance business consultant.

After the Second World War he became a member of the SPD again in 1945 and worked in the Dresden city administration. From July 1945 he was Ministerial Director in the State Administration of the Interior and from September 1945 as Vice President of the State Administration of Saxony with the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Supply (successor to Wilhelm Lenhardt). From 1946 he was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He was a member of the Land Commission, which dealt with the expropriation of large farms. From November 1946 to October 1950 he was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament . From December 1946 to November 24, 1950 he was Minister for Labor and Social Welfare and for Labor and Health Care under Prime Minister Rudolf Friedrichs and Max Seydewitz . He was replaced by Richard Goschütz and entrusted with a different function in the state of Saxony. He later worked as chairman of the Korea Aid Committee of the National Front in the Dresden district and from 1952 to 1970 he was the district director of the Dresden Insurance Company. Until his death, Gäbler was a member of the district assembly and member of the SED district leadership in Dresden.

He last lived as a veteran in Dresden and died at the age of 73.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945–1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 905.
  • Thomas Widera: Dresden 1945–1948: Politics and society under Soviet occupation , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 9783525369012 , p. 116.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Global echo on GM Malenkov's speech . In: Neues Deutschland , August 12, 1953, p. 1.
  2. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of February 12, 1974.
  3. ↑ High government awards . In: Neues Deutschland, December 2, 1970, p. 2.
  4. ^ Notices for the state organs in the Dresden district No. 4/1974
personal data
SURNAME Gäbler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1974