Walter Halbritter
Walter Halbritter (born November 17, 1927 in Hoym ; † April 11, 2003 ) was a German politician (SED) and long-time head of the GDR Prize Office in the rank of minister.
Life
The son of a family of farm workers attended elementary school from 1934 to 1942 and was trained as an administrative employee from 1942 to 1944. In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner of war by the British from May to December 1945 .
After his return he worked as a farm worker, became a member of the SED in 1946 and the FDJ in 1948 . He worked for the Ballenstedt district administration until 1951 and, after studying at the German Administrative Academy in Forst Zinna, from 1951 to 1954 as a department head in the main state budget department at the GDR Ministry of Finance. From 1952 to 1957 he completed a distance learning course at the Humboldt University and the Berlin School of Economics with a degree in economics. From 1954 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED , most recently from 1960 to 1961 as deputy head of the planning, finance and technical development department.
From 1961 to 1963 he was Deputy Minister of Finance, until 1965 Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Commission and Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Wages. From December 1965 to November 1989 he was Minister and Head of the Price Office at the GDR Council of Ministers .
From April 1967 to 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee and from 1967 to October 1973 a candidate in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers from November 1967 to 1989 and a member of the People's Chamber from 1967 to 1990 .
From December 1989 to February 1990, as State Secretary, he was the representative of Prime Minister Hans Modrow for the preparation of the talks at the Central Round Table as well as a liaison to the Office for National Security and the MfS dissolution committee.
Walter Halbritter was buried in the cemetery in Seelow .
Awards
- 1963 and 1969 Order Banners of Labor
- 1967 Badge of Honor of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in gold
- 1970 Soviet Lenin Commemorative Medal
- 1977 Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1984 battle request "For services to the people and fatherland"
- 1987 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Halbritter, Walter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Halbritter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ New Times of November 11, 1967
- ↑ http://boards.ancestry.de/stellen.europa.deutschland.berlin/8689/mb.ashx
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Half knight, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdV, Minister and Head of the Office for Prices in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hoym |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 2003 |