Gerhard Beil

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Gerhard Beil, 1986, 2nd v. right, with Günter Mittag , Ewald Moldt and Franz Josef Strauss in Bonn
1987 at the Hanover Fair ; Inspection of PET bottles

Gerhard Beil (born May 28, 1926 in Leipzig , † August 19, 2010 in Berlin ) was an SED politician and Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR .

Life

After elementary school, Beil completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk. From 1943 to 1945 he was with the Reich Labor Service . In April 1944 he applied for membership in the NSDAP , but was rejected in October 1944.

In 1945 he became a construction fitter and worked, among other things, in the sales department of IG Farben in Frankfurt am Main (1946/1947), as a machinist in the Espenhain lignite plant , miner at Wismut AG Aue (1949) and steel construction fitter in Leipzig (1950 to 1952).

In 1949, Beil joined the FDJ . He studied in Berlin in 1953/1954 at the Hochschule für Planökonomie and until 1957 at the Humboldt University with a degree in economics. In 1953 he joined the SED. From 1954 to 1956 he worked as a department head and head of department in the State Secretariat for Local Economy. Then as senior and main consultant in the Ministry of Internal German Trade, Foreign Trade and Material Supply . After being reprimanded for violating party discipline, he was a research assistant at the GDR trade agency in Austria from 1958 to 1961 .

From 1961 Beil was again active in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, initially as Head of the Western Europe Division (until 1965), from 1969 to 1976 as State Secretary and from 1976 also as First Deputy Minister.

Grave at the Grünau forest cemetery

From 1976 he was a candidate, from 1981 to 1989 a member of the Central Committee of the SED , from 1977 a member of the Council of Ministers of the GDR . From 1986 to 1990 he succeeded Horst Sölle as Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR - he accompanied Erich Honecker on his travels to the west.

Beil was one of the authors of the "Analysis of the Economic Situation in the GDR with Conclusions" together with Gerhard Schürer , Ernst Höfner , Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski and Arno Donda , as a template for the Politburo of the SED on October 30, 1989. In this also as " The secret report that became known to Schürer-Papier , the overindebtedness and economic disruption of the GDR became known for the first time.

Gerhard Beil was an advisor to the de Maizière government until his retirement .

He and his wife were members of the Left Party . Beil continued to see himself as a communist.

Gerhard Beil died on August 19, 2010 of heart failure in Berlin-Karolinenhof and was buried in the Grünau forest cemetery.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Beil  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Beil in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Beil, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  3. ↑ a b Junge Welt : Ein Solitär , August 21, 2010 Text of the article  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / rs92a.forumup.de  
  4. ↑ Half the story. new-deutschland.de (chargeable), accessed on January 18, 2013 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Beil, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2010
Place of death Berlin