Herbert Strampfer

Herbert Strampfer (born September 15, 1913 in Annaburg ; † August 14, 1995 ) was a German politician ( SED ) and trade unionist ( FDGB ). He was the Thuringian Minister of Economics and Labor .

Life

Strampfer, son of a civil servant , attended elementary school and from 1924 to 1931 the upper secondary school in Hamburg . He learned the profession of electrical engineer. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . From 1933 he completed an engineering degree at the Hamburg State College, which he graduated in 1936 as an electrical engineer and designer in switchgear construction. In 1939 he was drafted into the army for military service. In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets as a lieutenant near Stalingrad . In 1944 he attended an anti-fascist school and became a member of the National Committee “Free Germany” and an employee of the Association of German Officers .

Strampfer returned to Germany in July 1945 as a cadre of Institute 99 and initially came to Rostock with the fifth group . In the same year he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From August to October 1945 he was editor of the Thüringische Volkszeitung in Weimar , then until 1946 authorized signatory at the Thüringische Verwaltungs-GmbH. In April 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From January 1946 to February 1948 he headed the economics department of the KPD district leadership and the SED state executive in Thuringia. From February 1948 to November 1950 he was operations director of the Werra worsted yarn spinning mill in Niederschmalkalden . From November 21, 1950 to May 2, 1951 he was Minister for Industry and Construction, then from May 2, 1951 to July 25, 1952 Minister for Economy and Labor in the Eggerath II cabinet . From August 1952 to 1953 he headed the coordination and control office for internal trade at the Prime Minister of the GDR. After the removal from office of the Minister for Trade and Supply, Karl Hamann , and the State Secretary for the Food and Beverage Industry, Rudolf Albrecht , Strampfer was appointed State Secretary and head of the coordination and control body for domestic trade with corresponding powers as a special representative for the supply of fat in December 1952 used. Between 1953 and 1955 Strampfer completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg , from which he graduated with a degree in economics. In 1953/54 he acted as State Secretary and head of the Standing Commission for Trade and Supply in Berlin . From January 1954 to July 1955 was the head of the State Trade Inspectorate at the Ministry of Trade and Supply . From July 1955 to the end of April 1958, he headed the main administration for vehicle electrics, later the main administration for operating, measurement, control and regulation technology in the Ministry of General Mechanical Engineering . From May 1958 to June 1960 he was the main director of VVB Foto-Kino-Optik. As the successor to the late Herbert West , he was Vice President and First Secretary of the Chamber of Technology from September 1960 to the end of June 1967 , of which he had been a member since 1949. On November 17, 1960, he was co-opted by the 6th meeting of the FDGB federal executive board as a member of the federal executive board and on July 27, 1962, he was elected a member of its presidium by the 14th meeting of the FDGB federal executive board. He held this position until the 7th FDGB Congress in May 1968. From July 1967 to the end of April 1972 he was the main consultant in the GDR trade agency in Moscow . From May 1972 to September 1973 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Information and Documentation .

In October 1973 Strampfer retired and lived as a pensioner in Berlin.

Awards

• National Prize of the GDR (collective "Werra spinning machine", 1950)
• Ernst Moritz Arndt Medal (1957)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1961 and 1973)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 342.
• 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. 906.
• Bernhard Post , Volker Wahl (ed.): Thuringia manual. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995. Böhlau, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 632.
• Andreas Herbst : Strampfer, Herbert. In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR. 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 536.
• Andreas Herbst:  Strampfer, Herbert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Morré: Behind the Scenes of the National Committee: The Institute 99 in Moscow and the German policy of the USSR 1943–1946 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2001. p. 214.
2. ↑ On some nutrition issues . In: Neues Deutschland , December 9, 1952, p. 3.
3. ↑ The focus is on people . In: Neues Deutschland , January 10, 1960, p. 3.
4. ↑ Trade unions organize plan discussions . In: Neues Deutschland , August 1, 1962, p. 2.
5. ↑ Deutsche Flugtechnik , No. 10/1960, p. 321