Gerald Götting
| Gerald Götting | |
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| President of the People's Chamber | |
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In office 12 May 1969 – 29 October 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Johannes Dieckmann |
| Succeeded by | Horst Sindermann |
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9 June 1923 Nietleben, Saxony Germany |
| Died | 19 May 2015 (aged 91) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Profession | Politician |
Gerald Götting (9 June 1923 - 19 May 2015) was a German politician and chairman of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1966 until 1989. He served as Presdident of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer) from 1969 to 1976 and deputy chairman of the State Council of East Germany from 1960 to 1989.
Götting was born in Nietleben, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, today part of Halle/Saale. During World War II, he served in the Reichsarbeitsdienst, an auxiliary support and supply organization, and later in the Wehrmacht. He was briefly held as a prisoner of war by US forces in 1945.
In 1946, Götting joined the East German Christian Democratic Union, a Christian-democratic party. He then spent two years at the Martin Luther University of Halle, where he studied German studies, history and philology.
In 1949, Götting became General Secretary of the CDU and, after the establishment in the Soviet Zone of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was elected as a member of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer), the East German legislative body, in which he served for the next forty years. A loyal supporter of the Communist Socialist Unity Party, Götting helped push out those CDU members not willing to do the SED's bidding in the 1950s.
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