Wolrad Kreusler (politician)

Wolrad Kreusler (born December 24, 1892 in Groß-Gandern , † after 1949) was a German farmer and politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament .

Life

Wolrad Kreusler worked in agriculture and did military service in the First World War . In 1926 he married and in 1933 moved to Böddensell in the Gardelegen district . Before 1933 he was not politically active and, according to his own statements, was close to the People's Party . During the time of National Socialism he was critical of the new rulers and from 1936 was under the supervision of the Gestapo as "subversive" . In 1939 his wife was sentenced to a lengthy prison term and recognized as a victim of fascism after the war . During the Second World War he was conscripted and drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942.

In August 1945 he joined the CDU and in autumn 1945 was appointed community leader. In the state elections in the province of Saxony in 1946 , he was elected to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in constituency I (Jerichow II, Salzwedel, Osterburg, Stendal and Gardelegen) . The state elections planned for 1949 were to be carried out as sham elections according to the will of the SED and postponed by one year to the state elections in the GDR in 1950 . Because they did not take part in the vote on October 10, 1949 on the extension of the legislative period of the state parliament that was necessary due to the renewed postponement of the election, he and the CDU members Haase, Hampel, Kellermann, Negatsch, Reuter, Rost, Schilke and Lyding from the main committee of the, meanwhile criticized CDU, which was aligned with the block party , for behavior that was harmful to the party.

literature

• Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. 1947, p. 177 u. P. 307.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive for Christian Democratic Politics (ACDP-07-011-0489)