Hans Breitbarth
Hans Breitbarth (born September 24, 1928 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † June 17, 2010 in Berlin ) was a German politician and functionary of the GDR block party NDPD .
He was a member of their party leadership from 1972 to 1990 and was Deputy Minister of Justice of the GDR from 1970 to 1990 .
Life
Breitbarth, son of a butcher, graduated from the Arnoldischule in Gotha in 1947 and worked in the judiciary from 1948. In 1949 he became a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD). From 1952 he studied law at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena with a degree in law . From 1956 to 1958 he worked as a judge at the district court of Mühlhausen , from 1958 at the district court of Gotha and then as chief judge at the district court of Erfurt . From 1963 to 1967 he was the successor candidate of the People's Chamber and at times a member of the Erfurt District Assembly .
From May 1970 to March 1990 he was Deputy Minister of Justice in the GDR (successor to Rolf Kaulfersch ). He was responsible for main department V (organization and information) as well as departments 4 (notaries' offices and lawyers), 5 (economics) and 6 (administration). When he left the administration of justice on March 30, 1990, he was given the rank of senior judicial officer, after which he worked as a lawyer in Berlin until old age.
His life's work was the establishment of the institute for further education of the Ministry of Justice of the German Democratic Republic , for which he found the ruins of the Zietenschloss in Wustrau-Altfriesack and directed its reconstruction (today the meeting place of the German Judges Academy).
In 1971 he became a member of the main committee of the NDPD and at the 10th party congress of the NDPD in April 1972 he was elected a member of the party executive (from 1977 presidium) of the main committee of the NDPD. He was a member of the central board and the secretariat of the Association of Jurists of the GDR .
Breitbarth had been married since 1961 and had a son (* 1968). He died at the age of 81 and was buried in the Evangelical Georgen Parochial Cemetery V in Berlin-Friedrichshain .
Awards in the GDR
- 1973 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1978 in silver
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 32.
- 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. 84 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Resolution of the Council of Ministers of March 29, 1990 - BArch DC 20-I / 3/2939.
- ^ Party friend Hans Breitbarth 60 years . In: National-Zeitung of September 24, 1988.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of July 24, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breitbarth, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and NDPD functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mühlhausen / Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 2010 |
| Place of death | Berlin |