Kurt Gscheidle
Kurt Gscheidle ( born December 16, 1924 in Stuttgart, † 22 February 2003 in Saarbrücken ) was a German politician ( SPD). From 1974 to 1982 he was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, 1974-1980 at the same time the Federal Minister for Transport.
Education and work
From 1939 to 1942 Gscheidle completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic employed by the German Post. From 1942 he took part as a soldier in World War II. In 1948, he was released from captivity and was active in the postal service as a telecommunications technician since the end of 1948. From 1950 to 1951 he studied at the Academy of Social Dortmund. There then followed a training for REFA engineer.
In 1953, he joined as a full-time functionary for the German postal union (DPG ) in Frankfurt am Main, where he was the Secretary for technology and business manager until 1957, then to 1969, Deputy National Chairman. In 1969 he was nominated for the election of the chairman of the German Trade Union Federation of the chairmen of the unions unanimously as a candidate. His election was considered safe. Once, however, he demands to reform the DGB rose, he had to give way before the election Heinz Oskar Vetter.
Party
Gscheidle was a member of the SPD since 1956. He was attributable to the Godesberg wing, which evolved into the Seeheim Circle later.
Member of Parliament
Gscheidle was a city councilor in Oberursel. From 1961 to 1969 and from 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the German Bundestag. From 1961 he was directly elected representative of the constituency 135 (Upper Taunus Kreis) in the 4th German Bundestag. In 1965, he lost the direct mandate to Walther Leisler Kiep and arrived on the Hessian state list in the 5th German Bundestag. In the 6th German Bundestag 1969, he was also elected on third place in the country list, put, however, due to his appointment as Secretary of State civil servants, the mandate already on November 7, 1969 low. From 1962 to 1969, he also belonged to the board of the SPD parliamentary group. As a Minister, he ran in 1976 in the constituency 78 ( Reydt - Grevenbroich II ), but was elected only on the state list North Rhine-Westphalia in the 8th German Bundestag. 1980 refused to grant him the SPD district Niederrhein a place on the national list after Gscheidle had rejected a more direct candidacy for health reasons.
Public offices
From 1969 to 1974 Gscheidle was Permanent State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. As head of the so-called Commission German Federal Post Office, he played a leading role in the development of principles for the economic management of the hitherto acting as the federal public administration post. The report presented by the Commission draft law on the corporate constitution of the German Federal Post Office failed, significant measures could still be implemented.
On May 16, 1974 Gscheidle was appointed Federal Minister for Transport and Posts and Telecommunications in led by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt federal government. He reached it now in a short time that the federal postal worked economically. Similar plans for the high deficit Federal Railroad he could not prevail in public. He privatized smaller parts of railway and postal and planned in 1978 a full privatization of the railways, with the exception of the rail network.
1980 powered by Gscheidle introduction of a charge time clock for calls within the local networks was completed. Gscheidle had now also acquired the reputation of being the first professionally qualified transport ministers of the Federal Republic, increasingly created with his reforms and reforms but intra-party opponents. He also represented the consistent implementation of the Decree radicals in post and rail.
After the parliamentary election in 1980, the leadership of postal and transport ministry was separated and Gscheidle gave the Department of Transportation. When postal strike in November 1980, he ordered the use of officials on strike jobs, which was declared after extensive legal wrangling in 1993 by the Federal Constitutional Court to be inadmissible. At a cabinet reshuffle difference Gscheidle on 28 April 1982 from the federal government.
Others
Was known among philatelists the so-called Gscheidle brand. The former Postmaster General Gscheidle had three sheets of non- issued special stamp to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in his private possession. Through the so-called Gscheidle mistake his wife, who used these unofficial brands for franking, came in 1982 and 1983 some copies in circulation.