Hans Bahr

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Hans Bahr (born December 6, 1909 in Altenburg ; † September 9, 1986 ) was a German SED functionary and foreign trade functionary . He was President of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR .

Life

Bahr, the son of a locksmith, learned to be a carpenter after attending primary school . He then worked in the profession, interrupted by five years of unemployment. From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the German Woodworkers Association and from 1928 to 1933 of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He joined the NSDAP in 1938 . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942 and had to do military service.

After the war he worked as a carpenter from 1945 to 1946. In 1946 he became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and then exercised various full-time functions in the FDJ and the SED in the following two years. In 1948 he worked initially as deputy district administrator in Altenburg and from 1949 as district administrator in Eisenach . He held this position - interrupted by a six-month course at the German Administration Academy in Forst Zinna - until 1951. In October 1951 he took on the role of deputy director of the German domestic and foreign trade (DIA) wood and paper, especially for the paper work area. From July 1953 to 1956 he was consul general of the GDR trade representation in Helsinki , then group leader until 1957, and from 1958 to 1962 head of the main European department in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade . From 1962 to October 1968 he was President of the Chamber for Foreign Trade and was made Honorary President in 1968. On June 18, 1963, Bahr was elected Vice President when the German-British Society was founded in the GDR.

Fonts

  • The activity of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR . In: German foreign policy. Volume IX, 1964, Issue 11, pp. 1066-1072.

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 10.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 22.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 25.
  • 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. 22.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 27.
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae from 1953 in the Federal Archives DC 20-I / 3/193.
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of June 19, 1963, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 31, 1959, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Bahr, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary and foreign trade functionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1986