Hans Waldmann (politician)

Hans Waldmann (born October 31, 1928 in Schilda ) is a former economic functionary and politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The national prize winner of the GDR was a member of the People's Chamber from 1975 to 1989 and most recently General Director of the Senftenberg lignite combine.

Life

After the end of the Second World War , the farm worker Waldmann joined the SED in 1946 and the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) in 1947 . After training as a miner, he studied at the Workers and Farmers Faculty from 1949 to 1951 , where he graduated from university. Until 1956 he studied at the Bergakademie in Freiberg and became a qualified mining engineer and open pit manager in the lignite mining of Burghammer and Welzow and later technical manager in the lignite opencast mine in Spreetal . At the same time he was from 1956 economic secretary of the SED industrial district management black pump in Hoyerswerda .

From 1962 to 1966 Waldmann was Technical Director of the Association of Publicly Owned Enterprises (VVB) lignite in Cottbus . From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the district council in Cottbus . 1966/67 he studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . From 1974 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Cottbus. In 1971 Waldmann was the candidate for successor and in 1975, as the successor to the late Otto Winzer, he was a member of the People's Chamber, where he was a member of the committee for industry, construction and transport.

From 1967 to 1973 Waldmann was director for plan implementation and deputy general director of the Schwarze Pump gas combine, from 1967/68 deputy director of the VEB combine black pump and from 1968 to 1973 director of extraction, deputy and temporarily acting general director and then until 1980 general director of VVB lignite in Senftenberg . From 1980 to 1989 he was General Director of the Senftenberg lignite combine, which was formed from the VVB . After the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , Waldmann retired.

Awards

• 1965 Honorary title of Honored Miner of the German Democratic Republic
• 1970 National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class
• 1981 Order Banner of Labor Level I
• 1981 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and later in silver
• 1988 Honorary Title Hero of Labor

literature

• Hagen Schwärzel:  Hans Waldmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Plaschke, Herbert . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 973 ( online ).
• Reiner Breuer: Yearbook for Economic History 1983/4, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983 ( online ).