Günter Ehrensperger

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Günter Ehrensperger (born May 16, 1931 in Golzern ) is a former functionary and politician of the SED in the GDR .

Life

The son of a worker graduated after attending the elementary school , a vocational training for industrial business and in 1946 a member of the first FDJ and 1947 the FDGB . Between 1948 and 1953 he worked as an accountant and head of a central company accounting and then studied at the University of Finance in Babelsberg , graduating in 1956 with a degree in economics . After joining the SED in 1956, he became a member of the Ministry of Finance, where he rose from senior and main consultant to sector manager by 1961. After studying at the Karl Marx party college between 1961 and 1962 , he became a research assistant in the office of the GDR Council of Ministers and the State Planning Commission .

Subsequently, in 1966 he took up a position as an employee and later as deputy head of the planning and finance department of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1974 he succeeded Erich Wappler as head of the planning and finance department of the SED Central Committee and was thus one of the SED's leading financial experts until the SED was dissolved in December 1989. When he in this function Erich Honecker by his own admission the bill opened in November 1973 that the public debt of the GDR while maintaining the chosen path to 1980 from two to 20 billion currency market would rise, he forbade this now working on such scenarios and disposal the destruction of all available documents.

In May 1976 Ehrensperger was on the IX. SED party congress candidate of the SED Central Committee and, after the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in 1977, was awarded the Fritz Heckert Medal in 1981, the highest honor of the FDGB, and the VVO in gold.

In 1981 he also became a member of the Central Committee of the SED, to which he belonged until December 3, 1989, and a member of the People's Chamber . As a member of the People's Chamber he was a member of the Committee for Industry, Construction and Transport during the eighth and ninth electoral terms. In November 1989 Ehrensperger still believed in an economic recovery in the GDR and on November 9, 1989 stated to leading SED representatives: “If we want to get out of this situation, we have to work hard for at least 15 years and consume less than we produce. “Politically, the Ehrensperger recommendation was no longer enforceable at this point: the Berlin Wall opened on the evening of the same day .

On January 11, 1990, Ehrensperger, who was also awarded the Labor Banner in 1980 and was a hero of work , renounced his mandate in the People's Chamber. On February 10, 1990, he was expelled from the PDS as a member . Ehrensperger now lives in the Berlin district of Treptow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Maier: The disappearance of the GDR and the fall of communism , S. Fischer 1999, ISBN 3-10-046108-8 , p. 119
  2. ↑ Patriotic Order of Merit for Günter Ehrensperger , In: Berliner Zeitung , May 18, 1981, p. 2
  3. ↑ 12th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED (December 3, 1989)
  4. ↑ Jochen Bölsche , Norbert F. Pötzl : "We had a flourishing economy" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1999, pp. 198, 202 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Ehrensperger, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, department head of the SED Central Committee
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Golzern