Gerhard Lucht
Gerhard Lucht (born June 10, 1913 in Berlin , † September 8, 1979 in Altlandsberg ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1963 to 1965 he was Minister for Trade and Supply in the GDR .
Life
Lucht was born the son of a worker who attended elementary and middle school in Berlin , graduated in 1928 and was a commercial apprenticeship than to 1938 accountant at the electrical plants operating Berlin. In 1931 he joined the SPD . From 1938 to 1941 he was a commercial clerk at Bergbau AG Brüx . From 1941 to 1945 he participated in the war and was taken prisoner by the Americans .
After the end of the war he became a member of the KPD in 1945 and of the SED in 1946 . In 1946 he headed the organization office for the preparation of the formation of consumer cooperatives in Saxony-Anhalt , was elected chairman of the Saxony-Anhalt state association of consumer cooperatives in 1946, deputy to the president in 1949 and president of the Association of German consumer cooperatives in 1954 and held this position until 1963 . From 1950 to 1963 Lucht belonged to the People's Chamber and was a member of the budget and finance committee until 1954, the election review committee until 1958 and the constitutional committee until 1963. In October 1963 he was appointed Minister for Trade and Supply. After his dismissal as minister, he was chairman of the council of the Strausberg district from October 1965 .
In 1958 he received the order “ Labor Banner ”, in 1959 the GDR Medal of Merit and the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Publications
- Forward in the struggle for peace and reunification . Berlin 1953.
- Working with people - the basis for realizing the general line of the 7th meeting of the Cooperative Council . Berlin 1957.
- The next tasks of the consumer cooperatives in the second five-year plan . Berlin 1958.
literature
- Sigrid Fritzlar: Lucht, Gerhard . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 495.
- Andreas Herbst : Lucht, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Karl Hamann (LDPD, 1949–1952) | Curt Wach (SED, 1953-1959) | Curt-Heinz Merkel (SED, 1959–1963) | Gerhard Lucht (SED, 1963–1965) | Günter Sieber (SED, 1965–1972) | Gerhard Briksa (SED, 1972–1989) | Manfred Flegel (NDPD, 1989–1990)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lucht, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdV, Minister for Trade and Supply of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1979 |
| Place of death | Altlandsberg |