Günther Witteck

Günther Witteck (born April 5, 1928 in Dresden ) is a former German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the Dresden District Council .

Life

Witteck came from a working-class family and learned the trade of electrical machine builder in Görlitz from 1942 to 1944 . In 1945 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then drafted into the Wehrmacht . From 1945 to 1947 he worked as an electrician in Niedersedlitz .

He joined the KPD in November 1945 and became a member of the FDJ and the SED in 1946 . From 1947 to 1948 he worked as an FDJ functionary in the Dippoldiswalde district , most recently as the second secretary of the FDJ district leadership there. From 1948 to 1949 he was a political employee or department head of the Dippoldiswalde district management. In 1949 he attended the State Party School of Saxony in Ottendorf for five months .

From 1950 to 1952 he was press officer at the Office for Information of the Saxon state government, then from 1952 to 1954 full-time party secretary of the SED's Works Party Organization (BPO) at the chairman of the Dresden District Council. From 1954 to 1960 he headed the security department of the SED district leadership in Dresden. From June 1960 to January 1961 he acted as first deputy chairman and from February 1961 to March 1963 he was chairman of the Dresden District Council. Between March 1963 and September 1966 he completed his studies at the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow with a degree in social science . From 1966 to 1969 he was Deputy Minister for Guidance and Control of District and District Councils . From 1969 to 1982 he worked as the deputy head of the department for state and legal questions in the Central Committee of the SED . From July 1982 to December 1989 he was again Chairman of the Dresden District Council and a member of the Secretariat of the Dresden District Management of the SED.

In March 1990 he took early retirement .

On August 9, 1995, he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on probation by the 4th Large Criminal Chamber of the Dresden Regional Court after charges of "inciting election fraud as chairman of the Dresden District Election Commission during the local elections on May 7, 1989".

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1970), silver and gold (1988)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 1019.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 527f.
• Andreas Herbst:  Witteck, Günther . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .