Helmut Koch (politician, 1922)
Helmut Koch (born April 30, 1922 in Gera ) is a former German politician ( SED ). From 1958 to 1963 he was State Secretary for the collection and purchase of agricultural products in the GDR .
Life
Koch is the son of a moulder and a seamstress who were both SPD members. He attended elementary and commercial college. He received commercial training from 1936 to 1939 and then worked as a commercial clerk. From 1941 to 1945 he did military service in the Wehrmacht . During the advance of the American troops, he deserted and thus escaped captivity.
After the Second World War he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the SPD district executive in Gera in 1945, and then in 1946 of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the SED district executive. From 1945 to 1949 he was an employee or department head in the Gera district administration and from 1949 to 1951 head of the planning and reporting department of the state-owned recording and purchasing company (VEAB) Thuringia . In 1951/52 he attended the SED state party school in Bad Blankenburg and in 1952 became head of the animal collection department and deputy state secretary in the State Secretariat for the collection and purchase of agricultural products in the GDR.
From September 1958 to 1960 he acted as State Secretary for the collection and purchase of agricultural products (successor to Hermann Streit ) and from 1960 to 1963 as State Secretary at the Ministry for Agriculture, Collection and Forestry. On February 7, 1963, he became chairman of the newly formed State Committee for the Collection and Purchase of Agricultural Products at the GDR Council of Ministers. He held this position until 1974. At the same time he was a member of the Agriculture Council of the GDR and from 1968 deputy chairman of the Council for Agriculture and Food Industry (RLN). From 1974 to 1976 he was Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Registration and Forestry. Koch was then from 1976 construction manager, later until retirement in 1987 general director of the VEB slaughter and processing combine Eberswalde / Britz .
A correspondence course at the University of Economics in Berlin he joined in 1962 as a graduate economist from 1965 he was at the Humboldt University of Berlin Dr. agr. PhD. In 1968 he became a candidate and in 1972 a member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR .
After the fall of the Wall in the GDR, Koch became a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) and the Die Linke party . In July 2015 he announced his resignation from the party Die Linke. Koch lives in Eberswalde .
Awards
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1987 in gold
- 1972 Order Banner of Labor
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 161.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 411 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Siegfried Kuntsche, Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Koch, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- VEB Slaughter and Processing Combine Eberswalde / Britz (SVKE) (accessed on March 21, 2017).
- A sense of justice as a drive In: Märkische Oderzeitung from April 29, 2012 (accessed on March 21, 2017).
- Council of Ministers of the GDR (1958–1963)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Congratulations on your 94th birthday In: Akzente magazine from April 2016, p. 5. (accessed on March 21, 2017).
- ↑ Leaving the party after 70 years In: Märkische Oderzeitung from July 14, 2015 (accessed on March 21, 2017).
- ↑ letter In: Magazine highlights of June 2015 3. (accessed on 21 March 2017).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koch, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |