Gerhard Grüneberg

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Gerhard Grüneberg (1981)

Gerhard Grüneberg (born August 29, 1921 in Lehnin ; † April 10, 1981 in Berlin ) shaped the agricultural policy of the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s as an SED functionary .

Life

After attending elementary school, Grüneberg completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1936 to 1939 and worked in this profession until 1941. Until 1945 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the English . Until the end of 1945 he worked as a bricklayer in Oldenburg .

In 1946 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone and joined the SED. He attended the Niederbarnim district party school and the state party school in Schmerwitz near Wiesenburg / Mark and was with the SED district leadership in Guben from 1947 to 1949 , from 1949 to 1952 with the SED state leadership in Brandenburg and from 1952 to 1958 with the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder ) active. From 1952 to 1958 he completed a distance learning course at the Karl Marx party college and obtained a diploma as a social scientist .

Since 1958, Grüneberg was a member of the People's Chamber . In the same year he was co-opted as a candidate for the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED and elected Secretary of the Central Committee. In 1959 he became a candidate and in 1966 a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1960 to 1981 he was the successor to Erich Mückenberger Secretary for Agriculture. In this position he was instrumental in the implementation of the industrialization of agriculture in large farms, separated into plant and animal production. As a result, “the supply of food [...] deteriorated drastically. According to Norbert F. Pötzl , GDR agriculture was only saved from total collapse by the death of Grüneberg in April 1981. "

In 1962 and 1963 he was a member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers , from 1963 of the Council for Agriculture and Food and from 1966 of the Presidium of the Research Council of the GDR.

He found his final resting place in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery .

Awards

Fonts

  • Agricultural policy of the working class for the benefit of the people. Selected articles 1957–1981 . Berlin (East) 1981.
  • Lead, work and live in a socialist way . Berlin (East) 1959.
  • The Marxist-Leninist agricultural policy from mutual peasant aid and democratic land reform to the development and application of the new economic system of planning and management in agriculture in the GDR. Berlin (East) 1965.
  • On some questions about the SED's agricultural policy . Leipzig 1975.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Gerber: Erich Honecker: Biography Part 5 ; Article from May 4, 2003 based on: Norbert F. Pötzl: Erich Honecker. A German biography ; DVA, 2002; for the agricultural historical background cf. Andreas Dix, "Free Country". Settlement planning in rural areas of the Soviet occupation zone and the early GDR 1945 to 1955. KölnVerlag: Böhlau Verlag 2002. ISBN 3-412-14001-5
  2. ^ New Germany , October 4, 1959, p. 3
  3. ^ New Germany, October 6, 1964, p. 5
  4. ↑ High distinction awarded , In: Neues Deutschland, August 29, 1971, p. 1
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 2, 1979, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Grueneberg, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehnin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1981
Place of death Berlin