Gerhard Baumgärtel

Gerhard Baumgärtel
Gerhard Baumgärtel
Minister for Construction and Housing
	In office; 18 November 1989 – 12 April 1990
Chairman of the; Council of Ministers	Hans Modrow;
Preceded by	Wolfgang Junker (Construction)
Succeeded by	Axel Viehweger (Construction, Urban Development, and Housing)
Lord Mayor of Weimar
	In office; 21 Oktober 1982 – 17 November 1989
Preceded by	Franz Kirchner
Succeeded by	Volkhardt Germer (acting)
Preceded by
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer ; for Arnstadt, Apolda, Weimar-Stadt, Weimar-Land
	In office; 16 June 1986 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Gerhard Baumgärtel; 25 November 1931; Reumtengrün, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Died	27 July 1997 (aged 65); Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union of Germany; (1990–1997)
Other political; affiliations	Christian Democratic Union (East Germany); (1969–1990)
Alma mater	Fachschule für Angewandte Kunst Erfurt; Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar (Dr.-Ing.); Technical University of Budapest;
Occupation	Politician; Civil Servant; Architect; Academic;

Gerhard Baumgärtel (25 November 1931 – 27 July 1997) was a German architect, university lecturer and politician of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

In the German Democratic Republic, he served as the longtime Lord Mayor of Weimar in the 1980s and as the GDR's penultimate Construction Minister during the Peaceful Revolution.