Berthold craftsman
Berthold Handwerker (born June 13, 1920 in Ihlauschen, Kr. Ragnit , East Prussia ; † May 15, 2002 ) was a functionary of the SED and ambassador of the GDR .
Life
Craftsmen, son of a worker who graduated after attending the elementary school and the high school , a vocational training for electricians and served during World War II as a sergeant in the army .
After the war ended, he worked as an electrician between 1945 and 1948 and joined the SED as a member in 1946. In 1948 he was first head of department, then second secretary and finally in 1951 first secretary of the SED district leadership in the Spremberg district . After a subsequent course at the Karl Marx party college , he was secretary for economics in the SED district leadership in the Potsdam district between 1952 and 1954 .
He then moved to the Central Committee of the SED, where he was initially an instructor and sector manager and then from 1955 to 1959, as the successor to Paul Kraszon, head of the Basic Industry Department of the Central Committee of the SED , which was temporarily renamed the Coal, Mining, Energy and Chemistry Department. After handing over the position of department head to Günther Wyschofsky in 1959 , he again worked as a sector manager until 1965.
In 1965 he joined the Foreign Service of the GDR and was until 1972 as Counselor Head of the Economic Policy of the Embassy in Romania . Subsequently, in April 1972, Berthold Handwerker was accredited as the successor to Willy Hüttenrauch , who was retiring , as the GDR's ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic and held this post until 1976.
After his return he was from 1977 to 1986 secretary of the committee for Vietnam in the Solidarity Committee of the GDR , a social organization that coordinated the various development aid activities in the GDR. After finishing his work on the Solidarity Committee, he retired in 1986.
literature
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 221.
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Craftsman, Berthold . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Awards
- 1976 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1980 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1984 Silver Star of Friendship of Nations
Individual evidence
- ^ Department of Basic Industry in the Central Committee of the SED ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Volksstimme of April 12, 1972
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1980, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 3, 1984, p. 4
Rudolf Appelt (1953–1955) | Johannes König (1955–1958) | Johannes Dick (1958–1960) | Karl Speiser (1961–1964) | Klaus Willerding (1964–1968) | Willy Hüttenrauch (1968–1972) | Berthold Handwerker (1972–1976) | Egon Rommel (1976-1981) | Heinz Bauer (1981–1986) | Lothar Zöllner (1987–1990)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Craftsman, Berthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary and ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ihlauschen, Kr. Ragnit , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2002 |