Gerhard Briksa

Gerhard Briksa (born November 18, 1924 in Berlin ) is a German politician. He was Minister for Trade and Supply in the GDR .

Life

After attending elementary school from 1941 to 1942, the son of a businessman completed a non-commissioned preschool and was a volunteer non-commissioned officer in the German Wehrmacht from 1942 to 1944 . From 1944 to 1948 he was a Soviet prisoner of war and attended the Antifa school in Minsk .

After returning to Germany, he joined the SED . From 1948 to 1950 he was employed at VEB Tonwerk Dommitzsch, initially as a worker, then as a buyer and finally as an operations assistant. After attending the Gotha Business School in 1950, he studied at the German Administration Academy in Forst Zinna until 1952 and then worked as an assistant, then plant manager at the VEB Schamottewerk Rietschen .

Briksa became a full-time party official in 1953. Until 1955 he was secretary for economics and until 1956 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Weißwasser (successor to Heinz Krüger ). From 1956 to 1960 Briksa studied at the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU in Moscow . From 1960 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED , from 1962 to 1972 head of the light and food industry department (successor to Paul Sonnenburg ). At the same time he was a member of the Bureau for Industry and Construction at the Politburo. From November 22, 1972 to November 18, 1989 (his 65th birthday), he served as Minister for Trade and Supply .

Awards

• 1967 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, 1969 in bronze and 1974 in gold
• 1978 Honorary title of Honored Employee in Commerce in the German Democratic Republic
• 1984 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
• 1989 Honorary Title Hero of Labor

Publications

• The tasks of the retail trade in providing the population with better consumer goods , Berlin 1977
• On some tasks of the trade in securing a scheduled supply of the population , Berlin 1977
• On some tasks of the retail trade in further improving the supply of consumer goods to the population , Berlin 1978

literature

• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Briksa, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 6, 1963, p. 5.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1984, p. 5.
3. ^ New Germany , October 6, 1989, p. 2.