Gerhard Mahler (politician) – Wikipedia

Gerhard Mahler (Born November 6, 1930 in Plochingen, † March 26, 1996 in Salzburg) was a German entrepreneur and politician (CDU). From 1972 to 1976 he was State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry.

Mahler was born in Plochingen and grew up in neighboring Eßlingen am Neckar, where his ancestors were known to the great -grandfather of well -known craftsmen and entrepreneurs. In 1951 he passed the Abitur at the Esslingen Georgii-Gymnasium and then studied law at the University of Tübingen and then business and social sciences at the Universities of Cologne, Munich and Hamburg. In 1956 he ended his studies as a graduate merchant in Munich. In 1962 he received his doctorate at the Hamburg University Dr. Rer. Pol. Mahler has been a member of the Student team in Scotland since the summer semester of 1952. ^[first]

In 1958, Mahler began working as managing director of the medium-sized family company J. F. Mahler, Apparate and Ofenbau KG, Eßlingen am Neckar. He carried out this activity until June 1972. In the meantime, from 1969 to 1972 he was also a member of the state board of the Association of German Mechanical Engineering (VDMA).

Political party [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Mahler had still joined the CDU in 1953 and from 1957 to 1966 he was deputy chairman of the Junge Union in Nordwürttemberg. From 1959 to 1970 he was chairman of the CDU district association in Esslingen and from 1962 to 1972 also city council in Esslingen am Neckar. In 1971 he became chairman of the CDU district association in Nordwürttemberg, where he was also a member of the State Presidium of the Baden-Württemberg CDU.

State Secretary [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In July 1970 Mahler became representative of the CDU state association for public relations. In the 1972 state election campaign in Baden-Württemberg, he acted as the CDU campaign manager. When the CDU won the absolute majority with 52.9% of the votes in the election of April 23, 1972, a large part was considered than its earnings. In May 1972, he was appointed State Secretary in the State Ministry in the newly educated cabinet. In the new state government of Hans Filbinger, he took on planning and management tasks. In May 1973, Mahler expressed his interest in the office of Secretary General of the Baden-Württemberg CDU, but Filbinger preferred Dietmar Schlee. The relationship between him and Filbinger continued to cool down in the further course. After the CDU also won again in the next state election in 1976, Mahler had hoped for the post as Minister of Agriculture, for whom he had also run four years earlier. Filbinger, however, did not take him into account as the successor to the Friedrich Brünner, which was no longer available due to age reasons, but Gerhard Weiser and again offered him the office of State Secretary. Mahler rejected angered and was replaced by Gerhard Mayer-Vorfeld, who, unlike Mahler, did not get a voice in the cabinet.

Late years [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Mahler had set up in the Nürtingen constituency in 1976, in which he also got the direct mandate and moved into the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. After Filbinger’s resignation in August 1978, he and Manfred Wörner campaigned for the nomination of Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel to become the new prime minister. On August 30, however, Lothar Späth was elected as the new head of government. Mahler left the state parliament again in 1980 because he wanted to do again as an entrepreneur. As a result, he was the managing director and limited partner of Mahler Verwaltungs GmbH in Esslingen am Neckar. He also gave up the CDU district chair, but became honorary chairman of the CDU in North-Württemberg in May 1985. A year later, in February 1986, he worked again on the political stage when he could be elected chairman of the board of the newly founded State Institute for Communication. After differences with Südwestfunk, he resigned from this office in October 1990. In the same year he came back to the public with a letter when he had accused Lothar Späth’s accused in the party donation affair. He referred to old protocols that Späth should have said wrong.

• International biographical archive 24/1996 of June 3, 1996 in the Munzinger Archive.

1. ↑ Erich Faul (ed.): Landsmannschaft Scotland zu Tübingen – List of all federal brothers 1849-1959 , Stuttgart 1969.