Gottfried Klepel

Gottfried Klepel (born July 13, 1928 in Chemnitz ) is a German engineer in the field of coal refining and a former functionary of the GDR CDU . For his party he was for many years a member of the People's Chamber and in the de Maiziere government, State Secretary for Internal and Economic Policy at the Prime Minister's Office.

Life

Klepel was born on July 13, 1928 as the son of a Reichsbank inspector in Chemnitz and grew up there in the Bernsdorf district . After passing the Abitur, he was admitted to study at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1949 , where he studied until 1954. In 1949 he also joined the CDU and became a member of the GDR unified FDGB . After completing his studies, Klepel was taken on as a scientific assistant at the Freiberg teaching institution as part of an aspirant course. During this time, Klepel was able to conduct research on the rheology of hard coal for his dissertation , with which he was awarded a Dr. Ing. At that time he had already been employed by VEB Kombinat Otto Grotewohl Böhlen from 1957 , where he initially worked as a process engineer until 1959. The combine emerged from the joint stock company Sächsische Werke and was initially run as a so-called SAG company after the Second World War. Until the 1960s it comprised an open pit mine, a briquette factory, a plant for the production of synthetic gasoline from lignite and a large power station.

Klepel advanced his career within this republic-wide important brown coal refining plant. From 1959 to 1963 he headed the technology department in the field of coal refining. He then worked until 1968 as the main department head in the coal refining division. At the same time, Klepel began to get involved in party politics. At his place of residence in Markkleeberg , he was a member of the board of the CDU local group from 1962. In 1963 he was nominated by his party for the first time as a candidate for the People's Chamber and, after being elected, became its long-term MP.

In 1968 Klepel was promoted to production director at the Böhlen site. This rise went hand in hand with his election to the FDGB federal executive board, of which he was a member until 1972. The following time as production director until 1971 was marked by enormous changes within the company. As part of the GDR's chemistry program, the Böhlen site was also intended for oil processing. In 1969, this initially led to the expansion and renaming of the Otto Grotewohl Combine to the VEB Petroleum Processing Combine Otto Grotewohl Böhlen . In 1970 this combine was dissolved again and the coal processing operation was assigned to the newly founded PCK Schwedt . From 1971 the GDR wanted to gradually increase the production capacities for plastic and synthetic fibers. In this context, a naphtha cracker was built in Böhlen from 1972 to 1974 , which went into operation in June 1975. From the start of planning in 1971, Klepel was in charge of this project as the approach manager. He then worked again as production director until 1979. In 1979 he moved to the newly founded Scientific and Technical Center for Carbochemistry, of which he was appointed director. He headed this research facility until the political change in 1989. In the 1980s in particular, Klepel also dealt with the consequences of lignite refining for the environment. As part of the political turnaround, Klepel, with experience in parliament , was appointed to the de Maiziere government as State Secretary after the Volkskammer elections on March 18, 1990 . He was there in the office of the Prime Minister under the head of Klaus Reichenbach as State Secretary responsible for domestic and economic policy.

Honors

• 1981 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1988 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Web links

• Portrait on deutsche-einheit-1990.de

literature

• Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 9th legislative term. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987 p. 391.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 2, 1981 p. 2
2. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 5, 1988 p. 2