Günther Kleiber

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Günther Kleiber (born September 16, 1931 in Eula ; † March 29, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and Minister for General Machinery, Agricultural Machinery and Vehicle Construction in the GDR . In the wall rifle trials , Kleiber was sentenced to three years imprisonment for manslaughter .

Life

Kleiber completed 1946-1949 training as an electrician at the VEB Braunkohlekraftwerk Großzössen-Witznitz , attended 1950-1952 the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty Dresden and studied 1952-1958 at the Faculty of Aerospace essence of the University of Rostock , in 1953 during the construction of the GDR aircraft industry was relocated to the Technical University of Dresden . There he was a research assistant until 1962.

Kleiber joined the FDJ in 1947 , attended the state youth activist school in 1949 and became a member of the SED in 1950. 1962–1963 he was the full-time secretary of the faculty party organization of the SED at the TU Dresden, then employee or head of the electronics department of the SED district management in Dresden and 1966–1971 State Secretary for the coordination and use of IT for the chairman of the GDR's Council of Ministers . In this function he also became a member of the People's Chamber , a member of the Central Committee and was promoted to candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. He was also deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1971 to 1988 and first deputy chairman from 1988 to 1989. In 1984 he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and in 1988 a member of the National Defense Council .

1973–1986 Kleiber was Minister for General Machinery, Agricultural Machinery and Vehicle Construction, then permanent representative of the GDR at the Comecon .

On November 7, 1989, Kleiber resigned from his government office and on November 8, 1989 as a member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee, and was expelled from the SED on December 3. Investigations into abuse of office and corruption were closed in May 1990, and Kleiber was unemployed after being released from custody.

Manslaughter conviction

In August 1995, as part of the so-called Politburo trials, a trial for "manslaughter and joint responsibility for the border regime of the GDR" began before the Berlin district court. Kleiber was sentenced to three years in prison. The Federal Court of Justice upheld the verdict in November 1999 and Kleiber commenced open detention on January 18, 2000 in the Hakenfelde prison in Berlin. On September 6, 2000, he and Günter Schabowski were pardoned by the then Governing Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen (CDU).

Awards

Publications

  • Electrical equipment in the airplane , Dresden 1959
  • Electrical equipment , Neuenhagen 1959
  • Problems with the introduction and implementation of data processing technology in the perspective planning period. Possibilities and economics, political-ideological problems, prognosis, management activity , Berlin 1967

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Merkel : VEB Kombinat Robotron. A combine of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR . Dresden 2005, p. 14.

Web links

Commons : Günther Kleiber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files