Heinz Freitag (politician)

Heinz Freitag (born July 6, 1936 in Crimmitschau , † March 12, 2002 in Chemnitz ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1989/90 he was the first secretary of the SED area leadership in Wismut.

Life

Friday, the son of a worker, learned the trade of dyer after elementary school and passed the master craftsman examination. In 1950 he joined the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1955 he worked as a brigadier in the Schachtkombinat Schmichau of the SDAG Wismut .

In 1961 Friday joined the SED, attended a course at the party college "Karl Marx" in 1963/64 and then became a full-time functionary. From 1965 to 1970 he was first secretary of the FDJ area leadership in Wismut and from 1963 to 1970 he was a member of the central council of the FDJ . In 1971, Freitag became second and in 1989 first secretary of the SED area leadership in Wismut, which had the rank of district leadership, as successor to Alfred Rohde .

After the peaceful revolution in the GDR at the beginning of 1990, Freitag lost all political offices.

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 .
• Andreas Herbst :  Friday, Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 .