Heinz Albrecht

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Heinz Albrecht (born March 22, 1935 in Lugau ) is a former SED functionary. After Albrecht had been a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin since 1971, he replaced Günter Schabowski as 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in November 1989 . He was also a member of the People's Chamber from 1971 to 1976 and again from November 1989 to March 1990 .

Life

Albrecht, the son of a construction worker, completed an apprenticeship as a machine tool fitter at RAW Wilhelm Pieck Chemnitz after primary school from September 1949 to July 1951 , where he then worked as a fitter until June 1952. After completing his apprenticeship, he became a candidate for the SED in 1951 , to which he was accepted in 1953. In the summer of 1952 Albrecht went to Berlin, where he worked on the Central Council of the FDJ until August 1953 . He then went on to study industrial economics at the University of Economics in Berlin-Karlshorstdelegated, which he graduated in June 1957 with a degree in economics. Albrecht had acquired the university entrance qualification required for this at evening courses in adult education centers since 1950.

After completing his studies, he was initially employed at VEB Schleifmaschinenwerk Berlin, where he worked as an operations assistant from September 1957 to December 1958 and as commercial director from 1959 to March 1960. At the same time, from September 1959 Albrecht began a distance learning course at the engineering school for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering , which he completed in June 1964 as an engineer for mechanical engineering. In April 1960, Albrecht moved to the party level in the grinding machine factory, taking over the management of the company party organization as party secretary. When the grinding machine factory was merged with the VEB Berliner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik in January 1963, Albrecht remained the deputy party secretary of the entire factory until August 1963.

Subsequently, Albrecht moved from Köpenick to Weißensee , where he was the main company VEB Großdrehmaschinenbau "October 7th", where he was secretary of the company party organization there until September 1965. During this time, he also made a name for himself across the country for the first time when he had a say in several longer contributions in the SED central organ Neues Deutschland . In autumn 1965, at the age of 30, Albrecht was appointed works director of VEB Kühlautomat Johannisthal . This did not come as a surprise, as the introduction of the NÖSPL gave mainly young professionals and no more party workers more responsibility in the economy. In addition to the main production area of ​​ship refrigeration systems, which is unique in the GDR, the company also manufactured refrigeration units, but this area had been neglected until then. Under Albrecht it was at least temporarily possible to achieve significantly higher sales figures in this segment. The plant was also a supplier for the Atlantic catch and freeze trawler series , most of which were delivered to the Soviet Union . The company was thus constantly in the focus of the party and state leadership and repeatedly felt compelled to make special competitive obligations.

After the NÖSPL encountered increasing resistance within part of the SED leadership at the end of the 1960s, above all SED Economic Secretary Günter Mittag , it was increasingly scaled back. However, since Albrecht did not want to do without the experience of the practitioner, he moved to the Berlin municipal administration in the spring of 1970 , where he was elected by the Berlin city council on May 20, 1970 as a member of the Berlin municipal authorities and chairman of the district economic council. In May 1971, Albrecht was elected to the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Berlin, to which he initially belonged. In this secretariat, Albrecht sat in a group with functionaries such as the mayor of Berlin, Herbert Fechner , the 1st secretary Konrad Naumann or the Central Committee member Roland Bauer . From November 1971 he was a member of the Berlin city council, at whose constituent meeting on November 24, 1971 Albrecht was re-elected to the Berlin magistrate and as chairman of the district economic council. He was also one of seven deputies to the Lord Mayor of East Berlin. At the age of 36, Albrecht was the youngest member of the magistrate at the time. In addition, the Berlin magistrate also sent him to the 6th People's Chamber as a Berlin representative .

During his time in the Berlin magistrate, the SED delegated Albrecht to attend the party college of the Central Committee of the CPSU , which he graduated from April 1972 to August 1973. In February 1974 Albrecht was re-confirmed as a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Berlin. A year and a half later, Albrecht switched entirely to the SED district leadership. His successor as chairman of the Berlin District Economic Council was Walter Scholz . As the successor to Ernst Stein, Albrecht took over the areas of agriculture, local utilities, trade, traffic and urban technology, in short all areas that were responsible for supplying the Berlin population with goods and media such as water and electricity. With this, Albrecht continued at party level where he had left off at communal level. When, in 1984, the secretary for economics within the district management, Gerhard Nitzschke , was urgently advised by doctors to be relieved of his position, Albrecht was appointed his successor. Albrecht remained in this position until November 1989.

When at the 10th meeting of the SED Central Committee on November 10, 1989 the 1st Secretary of the SED District Leadership in Berlin and Politburo member Günter Schabowski was re-elected to the Politburo, the SED District Leadership then elected a new 1st Secretary on November 14, 1989. Secretary, since Schabowski was relieved of this position. Albrecht was regarded within the party as a bearer of hope, on the one hand because of his relatively young age of 54 years in contrast to the previous aged political bureau and on the other hand because of his lack of amalgamation with the top party leadership. Albrecht had never held higher positions in the FDJ, nor was he a candidate or a member of the Central Committee. On November 17, 1989, Albrecht also moved into the People's Chamber in his function as the successor candidate of the People's Chamber on the recommendation of the SED parliamentary group that had met on November 16, 1989. On January 18, 1990, he even succeeded Käte Niederkirchner as SED representative in the People's Chamber Presidium, since Niederkirchner replaced Werner Jarowinsky . Within the party, Albrecht belonged to a working group chaired by Herbert Kroker , which, after the resignation of the SED Central Committee on December 3, 1989, prepared the SED's special party conference. On this Albrecht was elected to the board of the SED-PDS. At the end of January 1990, Albrecht suggested at a meeting of the SED-PDS district executive in Berlin that no member of the presidium who was a member of the SED district administration's secretariat before November 1989 should run for the district delegate conference convened for February 11, 1990. Wolfram Adolphi was elected as Albrecht's successor at this conference .

At the 1st party congress of the party now called PDS, Albrecht did not run for office again. As a result, he devoted himself to new activities. On July 31, 1990, Autohaus Central CmbH was entered in the commercial register of the Berlin-Mitte district court with a share capital of 150,000 DM. Heinz Albrecht, among others, was appointed as managing director in the partnership agreement of May 31, 1990. This company was founded on the site of the former fleet of the Central Committee of the SED. Albrecht remained managing director of this company until December 1992. From April 1992 he also worked in the Dr. Herrmann Group, a bus and driving school company founded in 1990 by Richard Herrmann . At the beginning of 1993, the Herrmann Group took over the company from Albrecht. Albrecht worked in this company until 2001 and then retired.

Honors

literature

  • Mario Niemann ; Andreas Herbst : SED cadre. The middle level. Biographical lexicon of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils from 1946 to 1989 (= Schöningh collection on history and the present ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 . Pp. 89/90.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ u. a. Neues Deutschland from March 25, 1964, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 14, 1966, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from May 21, 1970, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, May 17, 1971, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland from November 25, 1971, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 12, 1974, p. 3.
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 19, 1975, p. 2.
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland, November 15, 1989, p. 2.
  9. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 31, 1990, p. 8.
  10. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 12, 1990, p. 2.
  11. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of August 28, 1990, p. 11.
  12. ↑ Arriving on time secures good properties . In: Neue Zeit from November 2, 1990, p. 3.
  13. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 1, 1974, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugau