Günther Maleuda

Günther Maleuda ( born January 20, 1931 in Old Beelitz, county peace mountain Nm, Brandenburg province, today Stare Bielice, Lubusz Voivodeship, . † July 18, 2012 in Bernau near Berlin, Brandenburg ) was a German politician and chairman of the Democratic Peasants' Party of Germany ( DBD). He was 1989-1990 President of the People's Chamber of the GDR and 1987-1990 Party Leader of the DBD.

Education and work

Maleuda was the son of a working class family. His hometown was after the war and inclusion in Poland Voivodeship poses. Here he was from 1945 to 1947 worked as a farm laborer on a Polish farm estate before he was expelled with his family to Thuringia. There he graduated from 1948 to 1950 an agricultural teaching in farm chores in Henfstädt and VEG Meiningen and then attended from 1950 to 1952 the technical school for agriculture in Weimar, where he qualified as a land surveyor. From 1952 to 1955 he attended the German Academy of Law and Political Science in Potsdam, which he left as a graduate economist.

After that, he was Head of Department at DBD District Board of Potsdam and then from 1957 to 1967 Deputy Chairman of the District Council King Wusterhausen of Agriculture and Deputy Chairman of the District Agriculture Council. In addition, he completed a post graduate course 1965-1967 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, during which he wrote a thesis on the gradual socialization of production in agricultural production cooperatives ( LPG) and the agr graduated with a doctorate. From 1967 to 1976 he was deputy chairman of the Council for agricultural production and food industry of the district of Potsdam, 1975 Sector Head of the council of the district of Potsdam.

Party

From 1950 to June 1990 he was a member of the Democratic Peasants' Party of Germany ( DBD). From 1976 to 1982 he was Chairman of the District Board of Halle (Saale ) of the DBD and a member of the District Committee Hall of the National Front of the GDR. In 1972 he was candidate of the party executive in 1977 its member and member of the Bureau, in 1982 secretary of the party committee, vice chairman in 1984 and from 27 March 1987 as a successor to Ernst Mecklenburg Chairman of the DBD.

When the DBD wanted to merge with the CDU of the GDR, he criticized this move, resigned on 25 June 1990 back from the party presidency of the DBD and was not a member of the CDU.

Member of Parliament

Günter Maleuda was 1958-1967 deputy of the DBD of the county king Wustershausen and 1967-1976 Member of the District Tags Potsdam.

From 1981 to October 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. He was until 1986 a member of the Committee on Public Education and subsequently deputy chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Group, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber.

From June 1987 to April 1990 he was Deputy Chairman of the State Council and a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR.

From 13 November 1989 to March 1990 he was elected following the resignation of Horst Sindermann as President of the People's Chamber. As a co-founder of the Central Round Table he sat down for a nonviolent transition to the system of parliamentary democracy in the GDR.

From April to June 1990 he was leader of the DBD / DFD Group, then non-attached to the dissolution of the People's Chamber Member of Parliament.

From 1994 to 1998 Maleuda was a member of the German Bundestag. He was drafted as a non-party 's leading candidate on the state list of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the PDS in the Bundestag and worked as an agricultural adviser to the PDS. 2000/2002 Maleuda was a consultant appointed by the Federal President Johannes Rau Commission on the financing of political parties. He was a member of the Alternative history Forum Berlin, a working group of the Association for Civil rights and human dignity.

Personal

Günther Maleuda was non-denominational. He was married and had 3 children. He died after a long illness.

Award

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• One of the tasks and problems of realization of the principle of gradual transition to LPG type I in King Wusterhausen circle. Berlin, Humboldt -Univ. 1967 ( dissertation)