Dieter Itzerott

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Dieter Itzerott (born November 12, 1931 in Neunheilingen ) is a German politician, former long-time functionary of the GDR youth organization Free German Youth and a functionary of the SED . He was temporarily 2nd secretary of the FDJ central council and 2nd secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle .

Life

Itzerott, the son of a worker, grew up in Thuringia and experienced the end of the war in 1945 as a 13-year-old in elementary school. In 1946 and 1947 he temporarily attended a business school in Apolda . He then found a job in the Buna Chemical Works as an aid worker. The Central German chemical triangle was to become Itzerott's center of life for many years. After two years as an auxiliary worker, he was able to start an apprenticeship as a machine fitter in the Buna works in 1949. In the same year he also joined the FDJ. Itzerott quickly began to get involved within the GDR youth organization. As early as 1951/52, he acted as a seminar teacher in the Buna-Werke company youth school. In 1952 Itzerott was elected to the FDJ leadership of the Buna-Werke, which was raised to the rank of district leadership because of its size, and he was elected its second secretary in 1953. As a result, he was FDJ secretary of the Buna training workshop in 1953/54 and then until 1955 again second secretary of the FDJ district leadership Buna. He was also admitted to the SED in 1953.

In the years 1955/56 Itzerott officiated as first secretary of the FDJ district leadership Buna. He then completed a year of party apprenticeship until 1957 at the district party school of the SED district leadership in Halle. Itzerott was then delegated to Leuna-Werke Walter Ulbricht , where he initially held the office of 2nd secretary until 1959, and some time later 1st secretary of the FDJ district management of Leuna-Werke. On the VI. Parliament of the FDJ in May 1959 in Rostock, Itzerott was elected to the Central Council of the FDJ for the first time. In the same year he was appointed 1st secretary of the FDJ district management of the chemical district Halle (successor to Günter Bornschein). During Itzerott's tenure, which lasted until 1965, a number of significant events occurred for the Halle district. The chemical program , which the GDR party and state leadership had decided in 1958, brought a further expansion of the large chemical companies in the chemical district of Halle and with it the influx of many young workers and families. In 1964 the foundation stone was laid for Halle-Neustadt , a quasi-dormitory city for chemical workers. In 1961, Itzerott belonged to the first FDJ delegation to visit Cuba. In 1963 Itzerott was elected to the FDJ's office of the FDJ Central Council as FDJ district leader at the VII parliament of the FDJ. In the same year he ran for the FDJ as a member of the People's Chamber . He represented the GDR youth organization in the GDR parliament for an electoral period until 1967.

In 1965, Itzerott had himself dismissed from his position as first secretary of the FDJ district management at his own request in order to start studying at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg . He completed this course in 1967 with a degree in engineering and economics. At the VIII parliament of the FDJ in May 1967 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , the FDJ top underwent a reorganization. The longstanding 1st Secretary of the FDJ Central Council Horst Schumann was replaced by the 2nd Secretary Günther Jahn , who had been in office since 1966 . The second secretary of the FDJ Central Council was now Dieter Itzerott, who had been relatively unknown in party politics. This personnel decision has to be seen in the context of the zeitgeist of the late Ulbricht era. As part of the New Economic System of Planning and Management (NÖSPL), experts and practitioners were preferred to pure party functionaries. Until his appointment as second secretary, Itzerott had only attended a district party school, but also had an engineering degree. In contrast, there were three functionaries in the Central Council Secretariat, Egon Krenz , Frank Bochow and Johannes Rech , who had several years of study abroad in Moscow. With the change of power from Ulbricht to Honecker in May 1971, the IX. Parliament of the FDJ made a change in leadership at Pentecost 1971. Günther Jahn remained first secretary, but Itzerott, almost 40 years old, has now been replaced by Wolfgang Herger as second secretary. As part of a major change in personnel in the SED party apparatus, he returned to the Halle district, where he inherited Werner Felfe as the second secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle. Felfe, in turn, replaced Horst Sindermann in the position of 1st Secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle. As early as 1974, however, he had to give way to Hans-Joachim Böhme , who had previously worked within the district management as secretary for agitation and propaganda . Itzerott was delegated to a three-year course at the SED party college , which he left in 1976 with a degree in social science. After this study, Itzerott took over the post of 1st Secretary of the SED district leadership in Torgau in 1976 in the neighboring district of Leipzig , which he held until his resignation in November 1989. The VEB Flachglaskombinat Torgau, an important company throughout the GDR, was within the scope of his activity. Itzerott was a member of the Democratic Socialist Party (PDS) until he left in 1990 and became a member of the German Communist Party (DKP) in 1998 .

Itzerott is a member of the RotFuchs magazine founded in 2001 .

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  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 2, 1969, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Itzerott, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDJ), MdV, SED functionary, 2nd secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunheilingen