Heinz Eichler (politician)
Heinz Eichler (born November 14, 1927 in Leipzig , † September 12, 2013 in Berlin) was a German politician ( SED ). He was secretary of the State Council and a member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber of the GDR.
Life
After attending elementary school from 1942 to 1944, the son of a working-class family completed a commercial training course. In 1944, at the age of 16, he joined the NSDAP .
After the end of the war, Eichler became an employee of the Oschatz district council . He joined the KPD and became a member of the anti-fascist district youth committee in Oschatz. In 1946 Eichler joined the newly founded FDJ and became a member of the SED after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . After attending a course at the SED state party school in Ottendorf , Eichler was elected to the SED district committee in Oschatz, a member of which he remained until 1948. He qualified in 1946/47 at the Workers and Farmers Faculty of the University of Leipzig and then studied economics at the same university until 1950, graduating with a degree in economics . Eichler was active as a functionary of the FDJ and SED in both institutions. After completing his studies, he went to Berlin and was initially the main clerk in the Ministry of the Interior . Shortly afterwards he moved to the government chancellery, initially as a consultant and later as a department head. As such, he worked in the secretariat of the First Deputy Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers, Walter Ulbricht . From 1956 to 1960 he studied at the Academy for Social Sciences at the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU in Moscow . After returning to the GDR, Eichler was again a close associate of the chairman of the GDR State Council Walter Ulbricht as a personal advisor and remained so until Ulbricht's resignation in 1971. He then replaced Otto Gotsche as secretary of the Council of State and remained in this office until 1990 of the Council of State Erich Honecker , Egon Krenz and Manfred Gerlach as well as the President of the Volkskammer, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , who was the last head of state in the GDR.
From 1971 to March 1990 Eichler was a member of the SED parliamentary group, a member of the People's Chamber and at the same time a member of its presidium. On November 13, 1989, he resigned from his office together with the other members of the Presidium of the People's Chamber, but was re-elected as a member of the Presidium on the same day at the 11th meeting of the People's Chamber. On April 5, 1990, the newly elected People's Chamber abolished the State Council.
On January 3, 1990, Eichler was summoned to a hearing by the temporary People's Chamber Committee to review cases of abuse of office, corruption, personal enrichment and other actions suspected of violating the law and questioned about the former Schorfheide special hunting area . Eichler had received permission from Honecker to hunt in the Schorfheide.
Heinz Eichler's sister was Hildegard Kiermeier . From 1972 to 1989 she was Secretary General of the UNESCO Commission of the GDR and had the rank of ambassador.
He was buried in the Baumschulenweg cemetery in Berlin.
Awards
- 1977 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (2 ×)
- Banners of Labor Level I (2 ×)
- Battle medals "For services to people and fatherland" in gold
- Medal of Merit of the GDR
literature
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , pp. 73-74.
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 .
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Eichler, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Olaf Kappelt , Brown Book DDR - Nazis in the GDR, Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 178/179
Web links
Heinz Eichler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from 28./29. September 2013
- ↑ Neue Zeit of December 21, 1993
- ^ New Times of November 14, 1989
- ↑ Grandstand from January 4, 1990
- ↑ https://www.unesco.de/sites/default/files/2018-05/60jahre_deutche_Mitarbeit_in_der_UNESCO.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eichler, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary, MdV, Secretary of the State Council of the GDR and member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12th, 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |