Gerhard Weiss

Gerhard Weiss (born July 30, 1919 in Erfurt ; † January 7, 1986 in East Berlin ) was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and permanent representative of the GDR in the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon).

Life

Weiss was the son of an employee, attended high school , was a member of the HJ and completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1935 to 1937. He then worked in the export department of a paper company, did military service as a sergeant from 1939, was in Soviet captivity from 1943 and attended an anti- fascist school in Krasnogorsk . In 1948 he returned to Germany, became a member of the SED and was head of department in the Ministry of Economics of the State of Thuringia from 1949 to 1951 . From 1950 to 1954 he completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR), became a graduate economist and was head of department in the Ministry for Foreign and Internal German Trade from 1951 to 1954. From 1954 to 1965 he was Deputy Minister there, and received his doctorate in 1965. rer. oec. and from 1965 was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. At the same time he was permanent representative of the GDR at the Council for Mutual Economic Aid in Moscow from 1967 until his death in 1986 , at the same time also a member of the People's Chamber and from 1967 a candidate and 1976 to 1986 member of the Central Committee of the SED .

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In addition to the GDR Medal of Merit , Weiss received the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in 1959, the “ Labor Banner ” in 1969 , the VVO in gold in 1976 and the VVO in gold in 1979. In 1984 he was honored with the Karl Marx Order . In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig .

He was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg in the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried in Berlin.

literature

Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Weiss, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 361.

personal data
SURNAME	Weiss, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1986
Place of death	East Berlin

[1] Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 361.