Heinrich Meier (politician, 1916)

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The MP Heinrich Meier speaks as the reporter of the Economic Committee at the 22nd meeting of the People's Chamber on March 28, 1962 (picture from the Federal Archives).

Heinrich Meier (born December 9, 1916 in Detmold ; † March 23, 1989 ) was a German politician of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD). He was a functionary of his party and from 1972 to 1984 Deputy Minister for the GDR's glass and ceramics industry.

Life

Meier, the son of a bricklayer, attended elementary school and construction school. From 1931 to 1935 he also completed an apprenticeship in his father's profession and then practiced this profession. In 1938 he passed the master's examination. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Stalingrad in 1943 , by which time he had reached the rank of captain. While in captivity, he attended Antifa schools and taught himself.

After his return to Germany in 1949, he became the main consultant in the Ministry of Development and joined the NDPD in 1950. There he became a full-time employee of the main department (HA) for personnel policy. He was a member of the main committee and from 1951 belonged to the party executive committee and the presidium. Between 1950 and 1954 he completed a distance learning course in Potsdam to obtain a degree in economics. From 1952 to 1958 he was political executive director of his party and then until 1964 secretary of the main committee of the NDPD.

Meier moved into the People's Chamber in 1953 as a successor in the first electoral term , to which he belonged as an elected member until the end of the eighth electoral term in 1986. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Constitutional Committee and then until 1963 of the permanent economic committee. From 1963 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the committee for industry, construction and transport. Since 1961 he was Vice President of the German Southeast Asian Society of the GDR. From 1972 to 1984 he was Deputy Minister for the Glass and Ceramics Industry. In 1985 he retired, but continued to serve as an honorary member of the party's executive committee and the presidium of the party's main committee.

Heinrich Meier received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1956 , in 1976 in gold and in 1982 the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , May 8, 1956, p. 2
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 14, 1976, p. 5
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, 27./28. February 1982, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV and minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Detmold
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1989