Wilhelm Schröder (politician, 1913)
Wilhelm Schröder (born October 18, 1913 in Erfurt , † May 2, 1967 in Dresden ) was a German politician and functionary of the GDR block party DBD . He was Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in the GDR .
Life
The son of a farm laborer completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith after attending primary school and worked as a car mechanic and milker. In 1940 he joined the NSDAP . He was a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1948 . There he attended an antifa school .
In 1948 Schröder returned to Germany and initially became a Neubauer . In 1948 he co-founded the DBD in Thuringia , 1949 DBD district secretary in Eckartsberga and 1949/1950 regional manager of DBD Thuringia and from 1951 to 1953 a member of the party executive and secretariat of the DBD. From 1950 to 1952 he was the Thuringian Minister for Agriculture and Forestry and, after the state elections in 1950, also a member of the Thuringian state parliament . When the state parliament was constituted on November 3, 1950, he was elected one of the five vice-presidents of the state parliament. From June 1952 to May 1953, Schröder was Paul Scholz's successor as Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in the GDR. His resignation for health reasons was accepted by Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl . He was then deputy chairman of the Erfurt District Council and member of the Erfurt District Assembly. From 1963 until his death he was chairman of the DBD district association in Dresden and a member of the Dresden district assembly .
literature
- Siegfried Kuntsche: Schröder, Wilhelm . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 307.
Individual evidence
- ^ Neue Zeit , November 4, 1950, p. 2.
- ^ Neues Deutschland , May 16, 1953, p. 2.
Ernst Goldenbaum (DBD, 1949–1950) | Paul Scholz (DBD, 1950–1952) | Wilhelm Schröder (DBD, 1952–1953) | Hans Reichelt (DBD, 1953) | Paul Scholz (DBD, 1953–1955) | Hans Reichelt (DBD, 1955–1963) | Georg Ewald (SED, 1963–1973) | Heinz Kuhrig (SED, 1973–1982) | Bruno Lietz (SED, 1982-1989) | Hans Watzek (DBD, 1989–1990) | Peter Pollack (independent, 1990)
Fritz Petersohn (1952–1953) | Alfred Zirnstein (1953–1957) | Gerhard Götz (1957–1963) | Wilhelm Schröder (1963–1968) | Werner Mitzscherling (1968 / 69–1989) | Manfred Hachelberger (1989–1990)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German functionary and politician (DBD), Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1967 |
| Place of death | Dresden |