Ernst Haak

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Ernst Haak (born April 22, 1924 ) is a former German university professor and politician . In 1952 he was a brief member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in the GDR .

Life

Haak completed an apprenticeship as a steel fitter and then worked in the profession. After the Second World War he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the Free German Youth (FDJ). He was first FDJ group leader in Wettin , then FDJ work area leader in the hall circle . After a course from 1949 to 1950 at the SED state party school in Saxony-Anhalt, he was state chairman of the FDJ of Saxony-Anhalt from November 1950 to July 1952 (successor to Gerhard Neukranz ).

At the 15th session of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament on April 2, 1952, he joined the state parliament as a member of the FDJ parliamentary group, to which he belonged until it was dissolved in July 1952. After the dissolution of the states and the formation of the districts in the GDR , he acted from 1952 to 1954 as the first secretary of the FDJ district management in Halle . From August 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the district assembly and at the same time a member of the SED district leadership and candidate for the Halle district leadership office. Haak began in 1955 to study at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the SED , where he in April 1961, Dr. rer. oec. received his doctorate. Then he received a lectureship at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED (PHS). Later he was deputy director and head of the distance learning department and from November 1971 to August 1979 head of the chair of Political Economy of Capitalism at the PHS (successor to Hannes Wunderlich). He then worked as a professor of political economy at the "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" college of education in Dresden .

Fonts (selection)

  • The intensification of the uneven economic and political development of West Germany and Great Britain and the intensification of the contradictions between the two countries after World War II (dissertation). Berlin 1961.
  • The growing unevenness in the development of capitalism after World War II . Dietz, Berlin 1965.
  • (together with Hannes Wunderlich): Basic course on Lenin's work “Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism” . Dietz, Berlin 1971.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 122.

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