Heinz Matthes (politician, 1927)
Heinz Matthes (born June 7, 1927 in Obercunnersdorf ; † October 31, 1988 ) was a German politician ( SED ). As chairman of the Workers and Peasants Inspection, he was a member of the GDR Council of Ministers , a member of the People's Chamber and a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED.
Life
After attending elementary school, the worker's son completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1941 to 1944 . On April 20, 1944 he became a member of the NSDAP and in December 1944 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service (RAD) and the Wehrmacht . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States , from which he was released in June 1945.
He initially worked in agriculture in the Minden district , returned to his homeland in January 1946 and found work as a bricklayer in Löbau . In 1947 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and attended the engineering school for civil engineering in Zittau from 1947 to 1949, graduating as a structural engineer . After working as a construction manager in Löbau, he became head of a construction company in Löbau in 1951.
From 1954 he was an employee of the Dresden district building authority and from 1960 to 1961 district building director in Dresden. From September 1961 to February 1963 he was Secretary for Economics of the Dresden District Management of the SED. On the VI. At the SED party congress in January 1963, he was elected to the SED Central Committee, of which he was a member until April 1981. In May 1963 he was appointed chairman of the newly created committee of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection (ABI) and a member of the GDR Council of Ministers . In December 1977 he was released from this position for health reasons. Matthes was also a member of the People's Chamber from 1963 to 1981 . 1973/74 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . From 1978 to 1980 he worked as deputy director for training and management at the GDR Building Academy . In 1981 he retired at the age of 54, lived in Berlin and worked as a member of the Central Commission for the Care of old, deserving party members.
Heinz Matthes died at the age of 61 and was buried in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde central cemetery on Pergolenweg.
Awards
- 1959 Medal of Merit of the GDR
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1977 in gold
- 1969 Order Banner of Labor
- 1987 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 230.
- 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 , p. 220.
- Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 434.
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , pp. 333/334.
Web links
- Heinz Matthes at Munzinger (accessed on February 10, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Germany of November 10, 1988.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthes, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economic functionary and minister of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Obercunnersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1988 |