Erich Ansorge

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Erich Ansorge (born December 4, 1937 in Schatzlar , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was General Director of VEB Rohrkombinat Riesa and from 1986 to 1989 State Secretary in the Ministry of Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Potash .

Life

The son of a miner, Erich Ansorge, began an apprenticeship as a metallurgical worker in the VEB copper and sheet metal goods in Ilsenburg in 1951 . From 1954 to 1957 he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Halle (Saale) and the Bergakademie Freiberg , where he graduated from high school . From 1957 to 1962, Ansorge studied metallurgy in Dnepropetrovsk ( USSR ) and obtained a degree in engineering . During his studies he did two years of military service in the Soviet army and earned the rank of lieutenant .

In 1958 Ansorge joined the SED. In 1964 he became a research assistant and in 1964 full-time secretary for economics in the SED company party organization in the VEB Stahl- und Walzwerk Riesa . In 1966 he was promoted to chief mechanic. From 1968 to 1973 Ansorge completed a remote aspiration at the Moscow Steel Institute and received his doctorate .

In 1969 he became technical director and from 1974 to 1985 he was general director of VEB Rohrkombinat Riesa. From March 1976 to February 1986 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Dresden. In 1981/82 he graduated from the SED party college "Karl Marx" . In 1985 he became Deputy Minister and in 1986 State Secretary in the Ministry for Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Potash of the GDR, which was dissolved after the resignation of the Stoph government in November 1989. After the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Ansorge lost all functions in 1990. Until December 1993 he was the managing director of an industrial investment company.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst:  Erich Ansorge . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions, Do-It-Yourself Movement - Customs Administration of the GDR (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6349). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16349-7 , p. 668.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic Order in Transition: Politics, Organization and Function, Volume 1 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002.
  • Andreas Malycha, Peter Jochen Winters: The SED: History of a German Party . Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59231-7 .
  • Siegfried Suckut : Parties in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1952 . Federal Agency for Political Education, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89331-384-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung , March 29, 1976.
  2. ^ Entry in the commercial register in: Berliner Zeitung , December 6, 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Ansorge, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) in the GDR and director of the combine
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Schatzlar