Hellmuth Geyer
Hellmuth Geyer (born August 16, 1920 in Falkenstein / Vogtland , † December 21, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German trade union official ( FDGB ) and politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the FDGB district committee in Karl-Marx-Stadt , a member of the GDR Council of Ministers and head of the State Office for Labor and Wages.
Life
The son of a carpenter , he graduated after attending the elementary school a locksmith teaching and business training. In 1940 he was drafted into the army for military service. From May to July 1945 he was in British captivity .
After his return from captivity, he worked as a repairman in the Deuben lignite works in 1945/46 . In 1945 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), and in 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1946/47 he acted as secretary of the FDGB district board in Weißenfels , from 1947 to 1949 he was an instructor at the FDGB state board of Saxony-Anhalt , then from 1949 to 1953 instructor and secretary of the central board of the industrial union (IG) mining in Halle (Saale) . After studying at the party university "Karl Marx" (1953–1955), which he graduated with a degree in social science, he was department head in the central board of IG Bergbau and IG Bergbau / Energie until 1964. From 1964 to December 1965 he was chairman of the FDGB district committee in Karl-Marx-Stadt and at the same time a member of the FDGB federal committee. Geyer was also temporarily a member of the SED district leadership and its office.
On December 22, 1965, the previous commission for work and wages was transformed into a state office for work and wages at the GDR Council of Ministers and Geyer was appointed head. On January 21, 1966, the People's Chamber gave him confidence as a new member of the GDR's Council of Ministers and on January 28, 1966, he was sworn in as a minister by the chairman of the GDR's Council of State, Walter Ulbricht . After a year and a half, he was released from this position on August 2, 1967 and replaced by Horst Rademacher . He should take on another responsible function.
Geyer died at the age of 62.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1965)
- Medal of Merit of the GDR
- Fritz Heckert Medal
literature
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 89.
- Ursula Hoffmann-Lange: The changes in the social structure of the Council of Ministers of the GDR 1949-1969 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-7700-0281-4 , pp. 55, 74 and 93.
- 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. 102.
- Andreas Herbst: Geyer, Helmuth . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of January 22, 1966.
- ^ New Germany of August 3, 1967.
- ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from January 7, 1983.
Fritz Thank you (1953–1961) | Herbert Kroker (1961–1963) | Hellmuth Geyer (1963-1965) | Heinz Müller (1966–1967) | Willi Seepe (1967) | Albert Wappler (1967–1989) | Siegfried Hessel (1989–1990) | Dieter Klemm (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geyer, Hellmuth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Falkenstein / Vogtland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1982 |
| Place of death | Berlin |