Hilmar White

Hilmar Weiß (born March 11, 1928 in Suhl ) is a former functionary of the SED in the GDR .

Life

After attending elementary school and commercial school from 1944 to 1946, the son of a technical employee completed vocational training as a businessman and was also drafted into the Reich Labor Service during the Second World War from 1944 to 1945 .

After he became a member of the SPD in 1945, he became a member of the SED in 1946 after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD . At the same time, he began his professional career in 1946 as an accountant and head of accounting in the Association of Consumer Cooperatives (VdK) in Suhl and Meiningen, and in 1952 became chief accountant of the VdK. After attending the central school of the SED Central Committee in Ballenstedt in 1953 , Weiß was chairman of the consumer association in the Suhl district between 1954 and 1958 and at the same time a member of the district assembly and member of the Suhl district council.

During his activity as chairman of the Central Revision Commission (ZRK) of the VdK from 1959 to 1963, he completed a distance learning course at the University of Internal Trade in Leipzig between 1959 and 1960 and graduated with a degree in economics . After his tenure as President of the Association of Consumer Cooperatives from 1963 to 1967, Hilmar Weiß became head of the trade, supply and management department in 1967 . Foreign trade of the Central Committee of the SED and held this position until the end of the GDR in 1989.

In 1968 he completed his doctorate as Dr. rer. oec. at the Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin (HfÖ) with a dissertation on the subject of planning and managing foreign trade according to countries in the economic system of socialism .

After he became a candidate for the Central Revision Commission (ZRK) of the SED in April 1981 (XI Party Congress), he was a member of the SED from April 1986 (XI Party Congress) to 1989. In 1990 he took early retirement .

Awards

• 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1975 in silver and 1978 and 1988 in gold
• 1970 Order Banner of Labor
• 1975 battle request "For services to the people and fatherland"
• 1979 Honorary title of Honored Employee in Commerce in the German Democratic Republic
• 1984 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR . 4th edition, Dietz Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 345.
• Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR (Ed.): Consumption. Consumer cooperatives in the GDR . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2006, Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR, 2006, ISBN 978-3-41209406-5 , p. 173 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Elke Reuter, Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  White, Hilmar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .