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German politician (1924?2003)
Kurt Gscheidle
(16 December 1924 ? 22 February 2003) was a German politician affiliated to the
Social Democratic Party
(SPD).
Gscheidle trained as a mechanic with the
Deutsche Reichspost
until 1942, when he was called up by the
Wehrmacht
. In 1948 he returned from war captivity, began studies at the
Dortmund Social Academy
[
de
]
and graduated as an engineer. In 1953 Gscheidle became an official of the
Deutsche Bundespost
labor union and was elected vice-chairman in 1957. He had joined the SPD in 1956, from 1961 until 1969 and again from 1976 to 1980 he was a member of the
Bundestag
.
In 1969 Gscheidle was a nominee for Chairman of the
German Confederation of Trade Unions
(DGB) but had to step down in favour of
Heinz Oskar Vetter
. He then served as a secretary of state at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and from 1974 as Minister of Transport (until 1980) and Post and Telecommunications (until 1982) under
Helmut Schmidt
in the latter's three terms as
Federal Chancellor
.
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Gscheidle is known among
philatelists
for a stamp designed on the occasion of the
1980 Summer Olympics
in
Moscow
. As
West Germany
participated in the
Olympics boycott
the stamp was never issued, however Gscheidle, then Minister of Post had received some proofs which he kept after his incumbency. From 1982 to 1983 his wife erroneously used about 24 of these stamps for her private correspondence, which today realize peak prices at auctions. In October 2010, one of the Gscheidle stamps was sold for 26,000 euros in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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