Heinz Rudolph (politician, 1912)

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Heinz Rudolph (born March 13, 1912 in Berlin ; † July 15, 2002 ) was a German economist , manager and politician ( CDU ). From 1955 to 1957 he was Minister of Social Affairs of Lower Saxony .

Life

Heinz Rudolph was the son of the owner of the Berlin coal and oil trading company Rudolph & Pietsch, Walter Rudolph and Frieda, nee Zinnhäuser. After graduating from high school, he studied law and economics at the universities of Heidelberg and Königsberg as well as in the United States , from which he graduated with a degree in business administration. He became a Doctor of Economics (Dr. oec.) PhD . From 1938 he was a consultant, then a member of the management of the Reichsgruppe Industrie . During the Second World War , during the German occupation of the Soviet Union, he acted as head of the economy department at the General Commissioner in Minsk ( General District of Belarus ), a subordinate authority of the Reich Ministry for the occupied eastern territories .

Rudolph was the managing director of a bank in Rendsburg from 1948 to 1951 . In 1951 he took up a position as head of department at the Olympic Works in Roffhausen near Wilhelmshaven , which he held until he joined the Lower Saxony state government .

Rudolph was one of the founders of the CDU in the Segeberg district and was elected to the state executive committee of the CDU Oldenburg in 1955 . In 1945 he was mayor and head of the district of Segeberg and from 1946 to 1948 head of the office for economy and development in the district of Rendsburg . After the state elections in April 1955 , he was appointed Minister of Social Affairs in the government of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege in May . He held this position until November 1957, when the Social Ministry was taken over by Georg Diederichs when the SPD entered the state government .

After leaving the state government, Rudolph took over the management of the economics and finance department at EURATOM and head of the business management division at the OEEC and, from 1960, the OECD . From 1966 to 1970 he was First Director of the Malay Federal Industrial Development Authority (FIDA) based in Kuala Lumpur . He also held management positions in industry, including at Olympia, AEG , Telefunken and Litton Industries .

Rudolph was a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Leisure and a member of the board of trustees of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation in Bonn and the Rhein-Ruhr Foundation in Essen. In the last years of his life he worked as a professor of art history at the Catholic University of Leuven and as a consultant and expert in Düsseldorf .

honors and awards

literature

  • Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930908-54-9 .
  • Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 37th edition 1998/1999. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-2026-3 , p. 1177.
  • Rudolf Klein: Lower Saxony Lexicon. Everything you need to know about the state of Lower Saxony. Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 328.

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personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and politician (CDU), Minister of Social Affairs in Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2002