Friedhelm Foerster

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Friedhelm Foerster (born October 25, 1930 in Klöden ) is a former German party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . He was chairman of the Magdeburg district board of the NDPD and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

The son of a teacher attended high school with a high school diploma. After the war he became a member of the FDJ in 1947 , the NDPD in 1948 and the FDGB in 1950 . From 1950 to 1952 he was youth advisor to the party executive of the NDPD. From 1952 to 1955 he studied law at the German Academy for Political Science and Law "Walter Ulbricht" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, graduating as a lawyer. From 1955 to 1967 he worked as a political assistant in the secretariat of the main committee of the NDPD. From 1967 to 1989 he was a member of the party executive and from 1967 to 1972 secretary of the main committee of the NDPD. From March 15, 1972 to 1989 he was chairman of the Magdeburg district association of the NDPD.

Since 1968 he was a member of the Presidential Council of the DKB and the Presidium of the League for Friendship of Nations of the GDR, since 1969 a member of the Presidium of the Peace Council of the GDR . On August 9, 1968, at the 10th meeting of the People's Chamber, he was named as the new Berlin representative in the People's Chamber in place of the deceased Jonny Löhr . From November 1971 to 1976, as a member of the NDPD parliamentary group, he was deputy chairman of the GDR Interparliamentary Group and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the People's Chamber.

Awards

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 6th electoral period, Staatsverlag der DDR Berlin, 1972
  • 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. 88.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the President of the People's Chamber, Johannes Dieckmann, in Neues Deutschland on August 10, 1968
  2. ^ New Germany from May 1, 1976