Günter noon

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Günter Mittag, 1984

Günter Mittag (born October 8, 1926 in Stettin ; † March 18, 1994 in Berlin ) was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED from 1966 to autumn 1989 . From 1976 he was the Central Committee Secretary of the SED responsible for economic issues relating to the planned economy of the GDR .

Life

Noon came from a working class family. In 1943 he was an air force helper in an anti-aircraft regiment. From 1943 to 1945, Mittag completed an apprenticeship with the Deutsche Reichsbahn . 1956 closed lunch a correspondence course with the title of graduate businessperson and a Ph.D. in 1958 at the University of Transport in Dresden with the work of the superiority of the socialist organization and management of the railways in the GDR against the capitalist railways to Dr. rer. oec. .

In 1945, Mittag joined the KPD and became a member of the SED in 1946 through the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . In 1947 he became a member of the Greifswald SED district leadership and in the following years took on regional management positions in the FDGB . In 1958 he became Secretary of the Economic Commission at the Politburo. In 1962, Mittag became a member of the Central Committee . In 1963 he became a member of the People's Chamber and (until 1971, then again from 1979 to 1989) a member of the State Council of the GDR . From 1973 to 1976, Mittag was First Deputy Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers. From 1979 to 1989 he was a member of the National Defense Council .

Also in 1963, Mittag became head of the Central Committee's Office for Industry and Construction. Mittag and Erich Apel designed the New Economic System of Planning and Management (NÖSPL), which was intended to modernize and reduce bureaucracy in the GDR's economy . Due to political resistance, the concept was only implemented to a very limited extent.

In 1966, Mittag moved up to the Politburo after having been a candidate since 1963. From 1963 to 1973 he was the successor to Erich Apel Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED for economic issues. When he again became Secretary of the Central Committee for Economic Affairs in 1976, his leadership role in economic policy was consolidated. Throughout his term in office, he strictly adhered to state control of the economy. The highlight of his work was the merging of the VEB in Kombinate in 1980. Within the Central Committee, Mittag also headed the Asia, Africa and Arab Region Commission.

Together with Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (Head of KoKo and State Secretary in the GDR Foreign Trade Ministry), Mittag was a respected discussion partner for politicians and business managers in the Federal Republic. He had close contacts with Franz Josef Strauss in particular and in the early 1980s negotiated with him the so-called "billion dollar loan" from a West German banking consortium to the GDR's German foreign trade bank .

In the summer of 1989 he replaced Egon Krenz as substitute for Erich Honecker during his serious illness. He had a passion for hunting with Honecker .

Noon was diabetic . In the mid-1980s, both of his lower legs had to be amputated.

In December 1989, noon came into custody , but was soon released on medical parole and went into retirement. In 1991 there was another charge of using state funds for private homes. However, noon was declared unfit to stand trial for health reasons. The main proceedings were not opened.

Mittag received honorary doctorates from Tōkai University (Japan) and Montan University Leoben (Austria) in 1982 . The latter was withdrawn from him in 1991. He was twice the holder of the title " Hero of Labor ".

  • Günter Mittag visits Hoechst AG in Frankfurt am Main, 1980

  • Conversation with Bölling, Lambsdorff, Mittag, 1982

  • Günter Mittag (2nd from left) on the Berlin Wall, 1986

  • Visit of Honecker in the FRG , lunch with the Federal President on September 7, 1987. V. l. To the right: Bangemann , Honecker, Weizsäcker, Mittag, Vogel , Bridegroom , Genscher

  • Gravestone in the cemetery in Zepernick.

At noon they were buried in the Berlin-Biesdorf cemetery. Since a reburial his grave is in the cemetery in Zepernick .

criticism

After reunification , Mittag, as the person primarily responsible for economic planning, was accused of having contributed significantly to the economic crisis and the collapse of the GDR.

Publications

  • On some problems of the dispatcher service at the railroad , Berlin 1957
  • with Elfriede Rehbein , Two ways in the German railway system , Verlag Die Wirtschaft, Berlin 1959
  • Organization and management in the socialist railway system of the GDR , Berlin 1959
  • Tasks and methods of party work in industry, construction and trade , Berlin 1960
  • On the socialist development of the railway system in the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1960
  • Questions of party work according to the production principle in industry and construction , Berlin 1963
  • Questions of the new economic system of planning and management of the national economy , Berlin 1963
  • with Erich Apel , Scientific Management Activity - New Role of VVB , Berlin 1964
  • with Erich Apel, Economic Laws of Socialism and the New Economic System of Planning and Management of the National Economy , Berlin 1964
  • with Erich Apel, planned economic management and economic levers , Berlin 1964
  • with Erich Apel, questions of the application of the new economic system of planning and management of the national economy in the preparation and implementation of investments , Berlin 1965
  • On the economic policy of the SED in the period of the comprehensive construction of socialism in the GDR under the conditions of the technical revolution , Berlin 1966
  • On the problems of the perspective plan up to 1970, especially the new economic system of planning and management in its second phase and the tasks of the party , Berlin 1966
  • Problems of the party's economic policy in shaping the developed social system of socialism in the GDR , Berlin 1967
  • Issues relating to the GDR's economic plan in 1970 , Berlin 1969
  • Ed., Armenia Today. Rise in 50 years of Soviet power , Berlin 1970
  • The significance of the book “Political Economy of Socialism and its Application in the GDR” for the further shaping of the economic system of socialism in the GDR and the development of the economic thinking of the working people , Berlin 1970
  • The implementation of the national economic plan in 1970 , Berlin 1970
  • Questions regarding the realization of the economic system of socialism in the GDR , Berlin 1970
  • The main task of the five-year plan for the development of the GDR's national economy from 1971 to 1975. The political-ideological tasks of the party organizations in industry and construction , Berlin 1972
  • Experience in implementing the resolutions of the 8th Party Congress to intensify production in industry and construction. On some management problems , Berlin 1975
  • The five-year plan for the development of the national economy 1976 - 1980. The further expansion of the material-technical basis. The necessity of accelerating scientific and technical progress , Berlin 1977
  • Questions of the economic policy of the SED in the implementation of the resolutions of the IX. Party congress. Some conclusions and lessons , Berlin 1978
  • Experiences of the struggle of the party in the implementation of the resolutions of the Central Committee of the SED in some areas of the economy of the GDR , Berlin 1981
  • Consistently on the course of the main task. Selected speeches and essays , Berlin 1986
  • The work of the party to realize the XI. Economic strategy adopted by the SED party congress , Berlin 1987
  • At all costs. In the field of tension between two systems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-351-02151-8 . (New edition 2015 by Verlag Das Neue Berlin, ISBN 978-3-360-02179-3 .)

literature

  • Peter Przybylski : Tatort Politburo. The Honecker file. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-19328-0 .
  • Hans-Hermann Hertle : Before the bankruptcy of the GDR. Documents of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED from 1988 on the failure of the “unity of economic and social policy”. (The Schürer / Mittag Controversy). With a conversation with Gerhard Schürer, former member of the Politburo and chairman of the State Planning Commission of the GDR. Central Institute for Social Science Research, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-927474-35-5 ( Berlin workbooks and reports on social science research 63).
  • Carl-Heinz Janson : Gravedigger of the GDR. How Günter Mittag ruined the SED state. ECON-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-430-15043-4 .
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs , Monika Kaiser:  Noon, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • It breaks my heart . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1991, pp. 88-104 ( online - Spiegel conversation with the former GDR economic leader Günter Mittag about his politics and his mistakes).
  • Just the statistics under control . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1991, pp. 80 ( online ).
  • Klaus Steinitz , Christa Bertag , Karl Döring , Jörg Roesler : The seminars of the Central Committee of the SED with the general directors of the combines in Leipzig ("lunch seminars") 1978 to 1989 , Helle Panke eV, Berlin 2018

Web links

Commons : Günter Mittag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the office of the Rector of the Montan University Leoben from June 20, 2017
  2. ↑ For a hundred years, the deceased have been laid to rest in the cemetery on Alt-Biesdorf. "We are a service company". In: Berliner Zeitung , August 12, 1995
  3. ↑ “We were not heroes” - DER SPIEGEL 19/1990. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Noon, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, KPD), MdV, member of the SED Central Committee
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1994
Place of death Berlin