Heino Weiprecht

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Heino Weiprecht , also Ernst-Heinz Weiprecht (born December 26, 1912 in Markranstädt ; † December 18, 1988 ) was a German politician ( SED ). For many years he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport in the GDR .

Life

Weiprecht joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was active in the government apparatus after the GDR was founded. After the dissolution of the Ministry of Transport and the formation of the Ministry of Railways and the State Secretariats for Shipping as well as for Motor Transport and Roads in April 1953, he first became head of the Road Administration in the State Secretariat for Motor Transport and Roads. On October 29, 1953, Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl appointed him State Secretary for Motor Transport and Roads with his own division.

In November 1954 the three authorities were again merged in the Ministry of Transport and Weiprecht became Deputy Minister, then State Secretary and 1st Deputy Minister. At the same time he was Deputy Director General of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Weiprecht became Vice President of the General Motorsport Association of the GDR (ADMV) in 1957 and, in December 1958, chairman of the standing working group for shipping of the participating states of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (RGW).

On August 1, 1977, he was released from his post as 1st Deputy Minister for reasons of age and was replaced by Volkmar Winkler . But he remained State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and was President of the Working Group for the Promotion and Development of International Road Transport. He was also a member of the Senate of the University of Transport in Dresden and a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership of the central organs of transport.

Weiprecht died at the age of 75 and was buried in the cemetery for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 307.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the 142nd meeting of the government of the GDR - Federal Archives DC 20-I / 3/204.
  2. ↑ cooperation in shipping . In: Neues Deutschland , December 24, 1958, p. 2.
  3. ↑ New general agent for “Intourist” . In: Neue Zeit , December 6, 1978, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. Special Memorial Days 2012 (accessed April 18, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Weiprecht, Heino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiprecht, Ernst-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Markranstädt
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1988