Franz Fillinger

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Franz Fillinger (born May 5, 1909 in Vienna ; † August 12, 1983 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1959 to 1961 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR .

Life

Fillinger did illegal party work during the time of fascism and was imprisoned in prison. He was convicted by the Dresden Higher Regional Court on January 19, 1935, for preparation for high treason .

After the liberation he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) again in the Soviet occupation zone and in 1946 a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1949 to 1952 he was head of the main personnel department in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior, later until the beginning of 1959 director of the German domestic and foreign trade company (DIA) glass and ceramics. He was then Deputy Minister and from July 1959 to February 1961 State Secretary and First Deputy Minister for Trade and Supply in the GDR. He succeeded Curt-Heinz Merkel, who had been appointed minister, and was replaced in his function by Werner Jarowinsky . He then acted as general director of the foreign trade company WMW-Export until 1963 . From 1964 he was Vice President and Director of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR. In June 1970 he was director of the GDR's first industrial exhibition in Mexico City .

Fillinger died at the age of 74 and was buried in the VdN department in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, p. 87.
  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 65.
  • Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945-1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 898.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 178 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

  • Grave site at www.billiongraves.de (accessed February 1, 2018).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Franz Fillinger . In: Neues Deutschland , May 5, 1979, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Zwickau prison at www.archiv.sachsen.de (accessed on February 1, 2018).
  3. ^ First GDR industrial exhibition on the North American continent . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 17, 1970, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Fillinger, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), State Secretary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1983