Kurt Gscheidle

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Kurt Gscheidle
Minister of Transport
In office 16 May 1974 – 1980
Preceded by	Lauritz Lauritzen
Succeeded by	Volker Hauff
Minister of Post and Communications
In office 16 May 1974 – 28 April 1982
Preceded by	Horst Ehmke
Succeeded by	Hans Matthöfer
Personal details
Born	(1924-12-16)16 December 1924 Stuttgart, Germany
Died	22 February 2003(2003-02-22) (aged 78) Saarbrücken, Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Occupation	Engineer

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.