Carl-Heinz Janson

Carl-Heinz Janson (born December 13, 1931 in Waltershausen ) is a former German party functionary ( SED ). For many years he was a department head of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Janson, son of a worker, attended elementary and high school. He became a member of the FDJ in 1948 and the SED in 1949. After graduating from high school, he attended the party college from 1950 and studied from 1952 to 1958 at the University of Economics in Berlin , graduating with a degree in economics . He then worked as an economist in a non-ferrous metallurgy company in Aue .

From 1961 he was active in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED. He was initially an employee of the Economic Commission of the Politburo under Erich Apel and from 1962 sector head in the planning and finance department under Gerhard Schürer . From 1966 he was head of the socialist economic management working group, which was upgraded to a department in 1967 (successor to Günther Jahn ) and was subordinate to Günter Mittag . From 1976 to 1989 he was a member of the Economic Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

After the fall of the Wall in 1989 he worked as a cardboard press, porter, cashier and salesman. In 1993 he retired and worked as a lecturer.

Awards

• 1969 Order Banner of Labor
• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1982 in silver.

Works

• Gravedigger of the GDR. How Günter Mittag ruined the SED state . Düsseldorf 1991

literature

• Wilfriede Otto :  Janson, Carl-Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 . (In the 4th edition he was mistakenly listed as deceased in 2002).
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 137.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 1, 1974, p. 4
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , 27./28. February 1982, p. 4