Harri Leupold

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Harri Leupold (born February 16, 1913 in Rostock ; † 1997 ) was a German functionary of the GDR bloc party LDPD . He was a member of the Volkskammer , chairman of the Berlin district association of the LDPD, vice-president of the League for Friendship between Nations and deputy to the president and director of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK).

Life

Leupold, son of an employee, attended elementary school and grammar school in Ratibor . After graduating from high school , he did an internship as a carpenter and carpenter in Ratibor from 1931 to 1934 and studied building construction and architecture in Wroclaw . From 1936 to 1944 he worked as a technical employee in the construction industry and in construction departments of the Air Force . He did military service and was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

After his release in 1946 he went to Cottbus , where his family had found accommodation. As a technical employee at the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus with the rank of Reichsbahn chief inspector he helped to get the train traffic going. In 1946 he joined the FDGB . From 1946 to 1949 he was an architect and building controller at the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus and then from 1949 to 1954 an architect at the Ministry of Transport . From 1954 to 1980 he was deputy president and director of the IHK Groß-Berlin and Berlin.

In 1947 Leupold joined the LDPD. From 1951 to 1952 he was chairman of the Berlin-Baumschulenweg urban group , from 1952 to 1953 chairman of the Berlin-Treptow district association of the LDPD. From 1953 to 1959 he worked as chairman, from 1959 to 1967 as deputy chairman of the Berlin district association, and since 1967 he was a member of the district board. From 1953 to 1971 he was a member of the central board of the LDPD. From 1974 he acted as chairman of the district revision commission of the Berlin district association of the LDPD.

In 1953 and from 1958 to 1976 Leupold was a city ​​councilor in Berlin. From 1953 to 1981 he was also a member of the People's Chamber. From 1958 to 1960 he was a member of the standing committee for the local people's representations, from 1967 a member of the committee for foreign affairs and chairman of the parliamentary friendship group GDR-Sweden.

Leupold joined the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in 1949 . From 1961 he was vice-president, from 1975 to 1989 as president of the Society of GDR-Northern Europe , from 1982 to 1989 also as president of the friendship society GDR-Sweden and from 1975 to 1989 as vice-president of the League for Friendship of Nations.

From 1965 to 1995 he was chairman of the Association of Patrons of the Tierpark Berlin , since 1995 its honorary member.

Awards in the GDR

literature

  • People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (ed.): Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (3rd electoral period) . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 449.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic (7th electoral term) . State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1977, p. 409.
  • 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. 191.
  • 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. 476.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He convinces in conversation. Harri Leupold on her 70th birthday . In: The morning of February 16, 1983.
  2. ^ Assembly of Delegates Berlin 1997 of the Association of German Zoo Funders V. . Retrieved November 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Leupold, Harri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 1997