Helmut Dersch

Helmut Dersch (born August 4, 1929 - † June 10, 2010 ) was a German economic politician and SED functionary. He was Deputy Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Construction in the GDR and from 1982 to 1989 State Secretary in the Ministry for Heavy Machinery and Plant Construction in the GDR .

Life

Dersch learned the trade of industrial clerk and qualified as an engineering economist. From 1947 to 1951 he worked as a production manager at the VEB Press- und Schmiedewerk Brand-Erbisdorf . Later, until 1966, he was head of the heavy and transport engineering department in the GDR's Economics Council . From 1966 to 1970 he was general director of VVB equipment for heavy industry and gear manufacturing in Magdeburg and VVB gearboxes and clutches . From March 1967 to May 1971 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg. From 1970 he acted as deputy minister for heavy machinery and plant engineering in the GDR and was responsible for the government for the north nuclear power plant in the Lubminer Heide. From February 1982 to December 1989 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering in the GDR (successor to Karlheinz Seifarth). He was released from his position by the Modrow government .

Dersch died at the age of 80 and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin.

Awards

1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1988 in silver
1979 Order Banner of Labor Level I
1984 Honorary title of Honored Metal Worker of the German Democratic Republic

literature

Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 47.

Individual evidence

^ Protocol to the Agreement on the North Nuclear Power Plant . In: Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1973, p. 2.
↑ Bundesarchiv DC 20-I / 3/2884, minutes of the 7th meeting of the GDR Council of Ministers on December 21, 1989.
^ Obituary notice of his family in Neues Deutschland from June 26, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Dersch, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economic politician and SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	4th August 1929
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 2010

[1] Protocol to the Agreement on the North Nuclear Power Plant . In: Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1973, p. 2.

[2] Bundesarchiv DC 20-I / 3/2884, minutes of the 7th meeting of the GDR Council of Ministers on December 21, 1989.

[3] Obituary notice of his family in Neues Deutschland from June 26, 2010.