Heinz Fahrenkrog

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Heinz Fahrenkrog (born May 16, 1926 in Wernigerode ; † December 26, 2004 in Berlin ) was the long-standing president of the Association of Consumer Cooperatives of the GDR.

Life

Heinz Fahrenkrog was born on May 16, 1926 as the son of a businessman in the Prussian district town of Wernigerode. After elementary school, he went to middle and commercial school. In 1942 and 1943 he completed a commercial apprenticeship. After the end of the war in 1945, Fahrenkrog initially worked as a sales point manager, later as a warehouse manager and buyer in the Association of German Consumer Cooperatives (VDK) in Oschersleben . He first joined the SPD , and in 1946, when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge, he became a SED member. In 1950 Fahrenkrog accepted a call to Berlin, where he worked at the headquarters of the Association of German Consumer Cooperatives until 1961. He started out as a speaker and later became a department head, where, among other things, he was in charge of the international cooperative issues department. In 1961 the SED sent him to study for three years at the party college "Karl Marx" , which he graduated in 1964 as a social scientist. At the beginning of 1965, the 39-year-old Fahrenkrog took over the newly founded central trading company Konsument , a department store chain of the VDK and its flagship, as general director . Under him, 11 large department stores were new or rebuilt by 1966. Then there was the consumer mail order company in Karl-Marx-Stadt . Shortly after the two-year anniversary of the successful consumer department stores, the VdK's cooperative council elected Fahrenkrog as its president in February 1967. In doing so, he led one of the two large trading companies in the GDR and thus had a major impact on the sales offering in the GDR. Because of his outstanding position, Fahrenkrog was selected as a candidate for the People's Chamber. Since the cooperatives had not held their own mandates since the 4th electoral term of the People's Chamber, Fahrenkrog received a mandate from the unified union FDGB . In his first legislative period, Fahrenkrog led the People's Chamber Committee for Trade and Supply as chairman, from 1971 to 1990 he was its deputy chairman. In 1971 he became creative, powerful and forward-thinking with the font . A balance - 25 years after the new start of consumer cooperative work in the GDR for Dr. oec doctorate. In 1980 Fahrenkrog was elected as a member of the Central Board of the International Union of Cooperatives, in which he represented the socialist countries. During the political change, Fahrenkrog was a so-called observing participant in the central round table of the GDR . Until 1991 Fahrenkrog was still president of the now East German consumer cooperatives, which he was able to prevent from being completely broken up. After that he was a member of the supervisory board of the consumer cooperative in Berlin for some time .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 30, 1986 p. 5

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personal data
SURNAME Fahrenkrog, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German President of the GDR Consumer Cooperatives and Politicians (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2004
Place of death Berlin