Heinz Schmidtke (association official)

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Heinz Schmidtke (born January 12, 1921 in Treuburg ; † September 24, 1976 ) was a German SED functionary and first secretary of the Association of Allotment Gardeners, Settlers and Small Animal Breeders (VKSK) in the GDR.

Life

Schmidtke, the son of a working-class family, attended elementary and vocational school, completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked in Treuburg. In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1943 was taken prisoner by the Soviets . During his time as a prisoner of war, he attended an anti-fascist school .

In 1949 he returned to Germany. He was initially a warehouse worker, then in 1950/1951 employed by the Gera agricultural district cooperative . In 1951/1952 he acted as second secretary of the VdgB district board Gera, before he became first secretary of the VdgB district board Heiligenstadt in 1952 . In 1952 he became a member of the SED. In 1952/1953 he was an instructor in the agriculture department of the SED district leadership in Gera , then from 1953 to 1969 political assistant in the agriculture department of the SED Central Committee.

In 1955/56 he studied at the ZK School for Agriculture in Schwerin and in 1961 completed a distance learning course at the University for Agriculture in Bernburg (Saale) as a qualified agricultural economist. From 1965 to 1969 Schmidtke studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow , graduating as a social scientist.

From March 1969 until his death in 1976 he was First Secretary of the Central Board of the Association of Allotment Gardeners, Settlers and Small Animal Breeders in the GDR. Schmidtke was also a member of the National Council of the National Front . He died after a traffic accident.

Schmidtke was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1974.

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 , p. 793.
  • Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, p. 1080.
  • Isolde Dietrich: Hammer, compass, garden fence. The SED's policy towards allotment gardeners . BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, passim.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 26, 1974, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidtke, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, first secretary of the VKSK
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Treuburg
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1976