Gerhard Zimmermann (politician)
Gerhard Zimmermann (born May 31, 1927 in Ahlbeck (near Ueckermünde) , † May 7, 1989 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering in the GDR.
Life
Carpenter, son of a working-class family, learned the trade of boat builder . In 1944/1945 he did his Reich Labor Service and was a Soviet prisoner of war from May to July 1945 .
From 1946 to 1948 Zimmermann worked again as a boat builder, among others in Eggesin and Altwarp . He joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1949 and attended the technical college for shipbuilding in Stralsund in 1948/1949 , from which he graduated as a master craftsman. He then worked from 1949 to 1950 as a foreman in the Boddenwerft Ribnitz-Damgarten . In 1951 he attended a course at the SED state party school in Wiligrad , and in 1952/1953 he studied at the Wismar engineering school. From 1952 to 1953 Zimmermann headed the teaching cabinet and was director of work at VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde . From 1953 to 1957 Zimmermann was an employee and department head in the SED district management in Rostock . From 1957 to 1963 he worked as director of VEB Warnow-Werft Warnemünde and then became general director of VVB Schiffbau in Rostock . From 1965 to 1981 he was Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering in the GDR and temporarily a member of the Presidium of the GDR Council of Ministers .
Awards
- Labor Banner (1964)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze and Silver (1974)
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 369.
- Sigrid Fritzlar: Zimmerman, Gerhard . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 1048.
- Andreas Herbst : Zimmermann, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition, volume 2nd Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Gerhart Ziller (SED, 1953–1954) | Erich Apel (SED, 1955–1958) | Gerhard Zimmermann (SED, 1965–1981) | Rolf Kersten (SED, 1981–1986) | Hans-Joachim Lauck (SED, 1986–1989) | Kurt Singhuber (SED, 1989–1990)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ahlbeck (near Ueckermünde) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1989 |