Horst Dannat
Horst Dannat (* 3. August 1934 in King activities ) is a former functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and was from 1984 to 1990 director general of the state-owned operation travel agency of the GDR .
Life
Dannat, son of a farmer, started an apprenticeship as a machine fitter after graduating from middle school in 1950 and worked in this profession in Burg until 1954 . In 1949 he joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) and was their functionary in VEB Walzwerk Burg.
From 1954 to 1956, Dannat studied at the Wilhelm Pieck youth college on Lake Bogensee. In 1956 he joined the SED and became an instructor of the district leadership of the FDJ in Magdeburg and at the same time was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership and candidate for the office of the SED district leadership in Gardelegen until 1960 .
In 1960/61, Dannat studied at the central school of the Bulgarian Komsomol "Georgi Dimitroff" in Sofia and was then an employee until 1969, later deputy head of department and finally head of the office of the secretariat of the Central Council of the FDJ in East Berlin .
From 1969 to 1972 Dannat studied at the SED party college "Karl Marx" and obtained a diploma in social sciences . In 1973 he became deputy director of the youth travel agency " Jugendtourist ". In 1979 he became deputy, in 1982 first deputy general director and in 1984, as the successor to Helmut Heinecke , general director of the VEB travel agency of the GDR and remained so until the company was dissolved in 1990. After the GDR travel agency was converted into a GmbH under the name of Europäische Travel agency on June 1, 1990 he became general manager. The Treuhandanstalt was one hundred percent shareholder .
He was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit in 1977 .
Dannat is a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) and lives in Berlin.
literature
- Andreas Herbst : Horst Dannat . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit from August 3, 1990
- ↑ New Germany of April 28, 1977
- ↑ GBM monthly newspaper , No. 07-08 / 2009, p. 7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Then, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary (GDR) and general director of the VEB travel agency of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingitten |