Helmut Scholz (politician, 1924)

Helmut Scholz (born October 28, 1924 in Wingendorf ; † March 20, 1967 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was the deputy minister for transport in the GDR .

Life

Scholz trained as a locksmith and was subsequently used as Lokschlosser, Lokheizer and drivers in Deutsche Reichsbahn operates, including the depot Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

From 1950 to 1963 Scholz was a candidate and from 1963 a member of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1952 to 1955 and from 1957 to 1958 he headed the Reichsbahn repair shop in Meiningen . In the meantime, he completed his studies at the industrial institute of the University of Transport in Dresden with a degree in economics. In 1958, Scholz was a member of the Warsaw Treaty States' Transport Staff . From 1959 he worked as deputy minister for transport in the GDR and as deputy general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Scholz had a fatal accident in 1967.

Awards and honors

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1964)
• The Reichsbahn repair shop in Meiningen, of which he was head for many years, was given the honorary name "Helmut Scholz" after his death.

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 313.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 302.
• 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. 805.