Helmut Weihrauch

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Helmut Weihrauch (born November 8, 1922 in Freital ; † November 20, 2006 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was deputy minister for electrical engineering and electronics and science and technology of the GDR .

Life

Weihrauch, the son of a model maker, studied at an engineering school, for which he had acquired the required maturity through distance learning in addition to the electrical mechanic apprenticeship. From 1941 he did military service as a soldier on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1943 . During the reconstruction of Stalingrad he did engineering work.

In 1947 he returned to Germany , became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was entrusted with important tasks in the communications sector. From 1951 to 1960 he completed a distance learning course in high frequency technology at the TH Dresden . From 1954 he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED and was confirmed in January 1958 as head of the decimeter communication system of the Central Committee. As such, he was instrumental in setting up the SED's directional radio links .

From December 1966 to 1973 he acted as deputy minister for electrical engineering and electronics and from April 1973 to July 1976 as deputy minister for science and technology of the GDR.

He then worked as a lecturer and head of the information processing working group in the field of medicine ( Charité ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In September 1985 he was appointed director of the newly founded Institute for Medical Informatics and Biomathematics in the Medicine Department (Charité) of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Frankincense died at the age of 84.

Awards

Fonts

  • Cybernetics in organizational and management practice , Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1967.

literature

  • Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 306.
  • 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. 987 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Kraft : Scientist and Minister . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 26, 1967, p. 16.
  2. ↑ Minutes No. 3/54 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on January 27, 1954 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/415.
  3. ↑ Minutes No. 1/58 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on January 9, 1958 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/587.
  4. ↑ Minutes No. 17/76 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on July 6, 1976 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/2467.
  5. ↑ Computer science institute founded at the Charité . In: Neues Deutschland, September 21, 1985, p. 10.
  6. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from November 25, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Frankincense, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Freital
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2006