Hans Reichelt
Hans Reichelt (born March 30, 1925 in Proskau ) is a former German politician of the DBD block party . He was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR , then until 1989 Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management .
Life
Hans Reichelt attended high school in Opole . He was a member of the Hitler Youth and the Reich Labor Service . On April 20, 1943 ( Führer birthday ) he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 9.454.165). He was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht (most recently with the rank of lieutenant ) and was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949 , where he attended an anti-fascist school.
After his return to Germany he became a member of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) and held various functions (since 1955 president) on the party executive committee. Since 1950 he was a member of the People's Chamber . In 1953 he was briefly Minister of Agriculture and Forestry as the successor to Wilhelm Schröder.After attending the Central School for Agricultural Policy of the Central Committee of the SED in Schwerin , Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl appointed him State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on October 29, 1953 From 1955 to 1963 he was again Minister for Agriculture, Registration and Forestry as successor to Paul Scholz .
From 1963 to 1964 he completed a university degree, in 1971 he started at the Berlin School of Economics with the work The role and position of the amelioration system in the intensification of agricultural production and the social development of socialist agriculture and some basic problems of the further application of the economic system of the PhD in Socialism up to 1980 . From 1963 to 1972 he was Deputy Chairman of the Agriculture Council and 1971/1972 Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food. In this function he was involved in “disastrous environmental decisions” in the area of forced collectivization, agricultural industrialization and amelioration. From 1972 to 1989, Reichelt succeeded Werner Titel as Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. The ministry took part in the concealment of environmental problems in the GDR, the minister played no role in the SED leadership. Letters from Reichelt to Günter Mittag , responsible for economic policy, were found unopened after the end of the GDR. Since 1982 Reichelt was Deputy Chairman of the DBD.
From November 1989 to January 1990 he was Minister of the renamed Ministry for Nature Conservation, Environmental Protection and Water Management (MNUW). In January 1990 he resigned as minister. He did not address his resignation to Prime Minister Modrow , but to his party chairman Günther Maleuda , who also chaired the People's Chamber. In December 1989 he resigned from the board of the DBD and no longer took part in the merger of the DBD with the CDU .
From 1994 to 2003 he was chairman of the Society for Legal and Humanitarian Support eV Reichelt sued against a pension reduction for his time as minister. In 2010 the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the cut was lawful, as it could be assumed that a small group of high-ranking GDR functionaries was rewarded not only for their work but also for their "loyalty to the regime". The pension cut was justified "from the legislative concern to prevent a system of self-privilege from continuing to operate under pension law".
Award
- 2018 Prize of the Alliance for Social Justice and Human Dignity
Fonts
- Agriculture in the former GDR. Problems, realizations, developments. In: Reports on Agriculture. Journal of Agricultural Policy and Agriculture. 70. 1992, ISSN 0005-9080 , pp. 117-136.
- Recorders or what? On the history of the DBD 1948–1990. Edition Ost , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-92916-183-4 .
- The German war returnees. What did the GDR do for you? Edition Ost, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-360-01099-5 .
literature
- Siegfried Kuntsche: Hans Reichelt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Reichelt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Kuntsche: Hans Reichelt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- ^ Olaf Kappelt: Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR Berlin historica, 2009, pp. 482–483, ISBN 978-3939929123 .
- ^ Minutes of the 142nd meeting of the government of the GDR on October 29, 1953 - Federal Archives DC 20-I / 3/204.
- ↑ Carlo Jordan: Environmental Destruction and Environmental Policy in the GDR , Enquete Commission processing of the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany, ed. from the German Bundestag, 12th electoral period, vol. II / 3, p. 1785.
- ↑ Joachim Radkau: The era of ecology. A world story. Munich, Beck, 2011, p. 523.
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Reichelt resigned after criticism , January 11, 1990, p. 3.
- ^ Christian Rath: GDR heritage: Ministers are losing out. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 28, 2010.
- ↑ BüSGM Young World Prize from June 19, 2018
Ernst Goldenbaum (DBD, 1949–1950) | Paul Scholz (DBD, 1950–1952) | Wilhelm Schröder (DBD, 1952–1953) | Hans Reichelt (DBD, 1953) | Paul Scholz (DBD, 1953–1955) | Hans Reichelt (DBD, 1955–1963) | Georg Ewald (SED, 1963–1973) | Heinz Kuhrig (SED, 1973–1982) | Bruno Lietz (SED, 1982-1989) | Hans Watzek (DBD, 1989–1990) | Peter Pollack (independent, 1990)
Werner Title (DBD, 1972) | Hans Reichelt (DBD, 1972–1990) | Peter Diederich (DBD, 1990) | Karl-Hermann Steinberg (CDU, 1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reichelt, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DBD), MdV, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Proskau |