Ernst Scholz (politician, 1913)

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Ernst Scholz (born July 19, 1913 in Berlin , † June 12, 1986 in East Berlin ) was Minister for Construction and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR .

Life

As a teenager in the 1920s, Scholz was active in the boy scouts , in the Wandervogel movement and a member of the “Fichte” workers ' sports club. From 1932–1933 he studied construction at the Technical University of Berlin , the Bauhaus Berlin and, after its closure, from 1933 to 1934, architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris .

After studying architecture, Scholz worked as a freelance architect in Germany . In 1934 he became a member of the illegal Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and worked for the also forbidden Red Aid Germany . In the same year he was involved in a failed attempt to free Ernst Thälmann from prison. At the end of 1937 he emigrated via Czechoslovakia , Switzerland and France to Spain , where he worked as a member of the XI from 1938–1939 . International Brigade participated in the Spanish Civil War , u. a. on the 2nd mission, the Battle of the Ebro . Interned in France in 1939 in ( St. Cyprien and Gurs ) and the prisons of Pau and Bordeaux, he managed to escape with three comrades in 1940. Until March 1945 he participated in the armed struggle of the Resistance as a machine gunner (FIPF / FFI and 13th Mountain Infantry Battalion). During this time he was a member of the Free Germany Movement in the West (BFDW / CALPO ) and the “Free Germany for the West” committee formed in September 1944, and he was the secretary of the Lyon-based local authority.

In 1945 he returned to Germany. In 1946, Scholz joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) when it was founded. From 1945 to 1949 he was head of the agriculture and economic planning department of the Brandenburg state government . In 1950 he became deputy head of the main administration for economic planning and then head of the main administration of construction at the German Economic Commission , after which he was head of the main administration of the construction industry at the Ministry of Construction. From 1950 to 1953, Scholz was head of the economic policy department at the Central Committee of the SED . In addition to his work as director of the VEB Bau-Union Rostock and as a member of the Rostock city ​​management of the SED, he completed postgraduate external studies at the University of Rostock from 1954–1956 , where he received his doctorate in 1963. rer. oec. received his doctorate. 1956-1958 he was the GDR government representative for the Arab states, before he worked until 1963 as Minister for Construction and Member of the People's Chamber . He worked from 1963 to 1968 as the representative of the government of the GDR for the Arab states in the UAR ( Egypt ) with the rank of ambassador . 1968–1973 he was State Secretary and first deputy minister for foreign affairs , before he became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Government of the GDR in the Republic of France from 1974–1976 . Scholz was president of the friendship society GDR - France from 1976–1986 .

He received the Medal for Fighters Against Fascism in 1958 , the Labor Banner in 1963, the Gold Patriotic Order of Merit in 1973 , in 1974 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Ivry-sur-Seine in France, in 1976 he received the Karl Marx Order and in 1978 the Honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit. He was also awarded the French Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Resistance and the Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1939-1945 for his participation in the French resistance.

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SURNAME Scholz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD, SED), MdV, Minister for Construction of the GDR (1958–1963)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1986
Place of death Berlin