Hans Lessing

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Hans Lessing (born April 3, 1934 in Chemnitz ; † January 3, 2017 ) was a politician in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) was deputy minister for light industry from 1970 to 1973 and from 1973 for district-led industry and food industry of the GDR and director of the Schauspielhaus Berlin .

Life

Lessing learned the profession of typesetter . He joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and held FDJ management positions in Dessau . He attended the Engineering School for Printing in Leipzig , later studied economics at the KMU Leipzig and was awarded a Dr. rer. oec. PhD . He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1968 to 1969 he worked as a department head in the Ministry of Light Industry of the GDR and from March 1969 to June 1970 as general director of the VVB Polygrafische Industrie. From 1970 to 1973 he acted as Deputy Minister for Light Industry and from 1973 as Deputy Minister for District Industry and Food Industry in the GDR . Because of deficiencies in the furniture supply he was defamed as a "failure" by the then GDR economic director Günter Mittag in a public meeting and removed from his post.

In August 1983 he moved to the rebuilt Schauspielhaus Berlin as the first director. He was dismissed from this position in December 1989. From February 1984 to December 1989 he was a candidate for the SED district leadership in Berlin .

Lessing sued against a pension reduction based on the transfer of entitlements and entitlements for his time as Vice Minister. In 2010 the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the cut was lawful. The Bundestag can assume that a small group of high-ranking GDR functionaries was rewarded not only for their work, but also for their "political adaptation" and "loyalty to the regime". The pension cut was justified "on the basis of the legislative concern to prevent a system of self-privilege from continuing to operate under pension law".

Lessing died at the age of 82.

Awards

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. 190.
  • 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. 475 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Witnesses of the Century at www.youtube.com (from the 53rd minute).
  2. ↑ Acting director was dismissed . In: Neues Deutschland , December 8, 1989, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Christian Rath: Reduced pension: GDR functionaries fail with lawsuit. In: Die Zeit , July 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Obituary notice in the Thüringer Allgemeine from January 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lessing, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2017