Helmut Dietrich

Helmut Dietrich (born March 23, 1922 in Probstzella ; † April 21, 1986 ) was a politician of the GDR and president of the GDR's foreign trade bank .

Life

The son of a worker completed a commercial apprenticeship after attending elementary school. From 1939 to 1941 he worked as an employee of the Thuringian State Bank. From 1942 to 1945 he had to do military service in the Wehrmacht, at the end of the war he became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in July 1945.

He found work at the Landeskreditbank Thuringia in Gräfenthal, became a member of the SED in 1946 and joined the German Central Bank in 1950. After studying at the finance school with a degree in economics, he became district director of the German Central Bank in Gera in 1952 . In 1963/64 he was President of the Investment Bank and from June 1964 to July 1967 President of the German Central Bank. At the same time he was a member of the GDR Council of Ministers . In this position he was replaced by Margarete Wittkowski in 1967 , but he remained Vice President of the bank until 1971. From 1971 to 1977 he was President of the GDR Foreign Trade Bank . In 1978 he was appointed professor and head of the chair group for currency economics / currency theory at the economics section at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Awards

1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
1978 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

literature

Andreas Herbst : Dietrich, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

^ New Germany of June 27, 1964
↑ Berliner Zeitung , 25./26. February 1978, p. 4

personal data
SURNAME	Dietrich, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED) and President of the German Central Bank
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Probstzella
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1986

[1] New Germany of June 27, 1964

[2] Berliner Zeitung , 25./26. February 1978, p. 4