Helmut Semmelmann

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Helmut Semmelmann (born August 8, 1934 in Gera ) is a former German politician and functionary ( SED ). He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

After attending primary and secondary school and graduating from high school, the son of a worker studied agricultural sciences at the Timirjasew Academy in Moscow from 1953 to 1958 and graduated as a qualified farmer. Semmelmann, who became a member of the SED during his studies in 1955, was after his return from 1958 to 1961 scientific assistant at the machine-tractor station (MTS) Brahmenau , before he was for a short time director of the MTS Schlöben .

In 1961 he became an employee of the SED district leadership in Gera , where he was head of the agriculture department from 1962 to 1963. In 1963 he switched to the Central Committee of the SED as a political employee . From 1972 to 1973 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" and was then from 1974 to 1980 sector leader of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1980 to 1982 he was Fritz Klopprogge's successor, first secretary of the SED district leadership, central organs of the agriculture and food industry .

In November 1982 he was appointed head of the Agriculture Department of the SED Central Committee as the successor to Bruno Lietz , who in turn replaced Heinz Kuhrig as Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management, and held this position until the SED was dissolved in 1989.

Semmelmann was from April 1986 (XI. Party Congress) to December 1989 a member of the Central Committee of the SED and at the same time from 1986 to March 1990 as a member of the SED parliamentary group a member of the People's Chamber . There he was First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management.

Most recently, from November 10 to December 3, 1989, he was the successor to Johannes Chemnitzer as Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED for Agriculture and, in November 1989, a member of an editorial committee that worked out an action program entitled Steps to Renewal . The editorial committee was chaired by Siegfried Lorenz , the other members were: Hans Modrow , Eberhard Heinrich , Wolfgang Herger , Helmut Koziolek , Werner Scheler , Gerd Schulz , Gerhard Schürer , Hans-Jürgen Trümper , Moritz Mebel , Wolfgang Junker , Hans-Joachim Hoffmann , Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski , Gerhard Beil , Horst Brünner , Wolfgang Rauchfuß , Werner Frohn , Oskar Fischer , Helga Labs , Hans-Joachim Willerding , Arnold Zimmermann and as secretary Heinz Mirtschin . On December 3, 1989, he became a member of a committee of the Central Committee to draw up the report on the causes of the crisis in the SED and in society, which in addition to him included Werner Eberlein , Wolfgang Herger, Werner Jarowinsky , Siegfried Lorenz, Wolfgang Rauchfuß, Günter Schabowski and Günter Sieber belonged.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isolde Dietrich: hammer, circle, garden fence: the policy of the SED towards the allotment gardeners . In: Communications from cultural studies research . tape 38 . BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2003, ISBN 3-8311-4660-8 , p. 332 (408 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Hans Michael Kloth: From "folding paper" to free voting: the democratization of the GDR in 1989/90 and the "election question" . In: Research on GDR society . 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-212-3 , p. 371 (752 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ 12th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED. In: 2plus4.de. December 3, 1989. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 1, 1974, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 2, 1984, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Semmelmann, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, department head and secretary of the SED Central Committee
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera