Heinz Block

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Heinz Block (born February 11, 1925 in Aschersleben ) is a former German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1970 to 1975 he was Deputy Minister and State Secretary in the Ministry of District Industry and Food Industry and from 1980 to 1990 General Director of the VEB Kombinat Spirituosen, Wein und Sekt in East Berlin .

Life

Block, the son of a worker, learned the trade of industrial clerk after elementary school and worked as a commercial clerk until 1943 . Until 1945 he fought in the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

From the end of the war until 1952, Block worked as a sales manager and managing director of a small company in Aschersleben and became a member of the SED in 1952. In 1952/53 he was internal auditor and head of processing at the consumer association Aschersleben and in 1953/54 commercial director of VEB Optima Aschersleben . In 1954, Block completed a correspondence course in political science at the German Academy for Political and Legal Sciences in Potsdam with a diploma and then went full-time into politics.

From 1954 to 1959 Block was secretary and first deputy to the chairman of the council of the Aschersleben district and from 1959 to 1967 chairman of the council of the Wittenberg district . From 1968 to 1970 he was deputy chairman of the district council and chairman of the district economic council in the Halle district . Block was a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Halle.

From 1970 to 1975 Block was deputy minister and state secretary for district management and the food industry in the GDR and, from February 1976, chief director of the state beverage office. In 1980 he became general director of the VEB Kombinat Spirituosen, Wein und Sekt Berlin . In 1990 Block retired.

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  1. ^ In: Berliner Zeitung , May 1, 1975, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Block, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben