Horst Klemm

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Horst Klemm (born June 30, 1925 in Bunzlau ; † 2011 ) was a German youth and party functionary ( FDJ / SED ). He was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Klemm, the son of a glassworks worker, attended elementary school. He joined the FDJ after the Second World War and worked as a postal worker and tractor driver from 1946 to 1948. In 1947 he became a member of the SED and in 1948 a full-time employee of the SED state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the University of Rostock and was chairman of the FDJ university group. From 1951 to 1955 he exercised various FDJ functions, was secretary for the organization of the FDJ state leadership in Mecklenburg and after the administrative reform in 1952 first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Rostock . At the same time he was from March 1952 a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (replacement for the recalled Konrad Naumann ), then from August 1952 to 1954 of the Rostock district assembly. He was also a candidate from 1952, then a member of the Central Council of the FDJ until 1959. From 1955 to 1958 he was head of the youth and sport sector in the department of governing bodies of the party and mass organizations of the Central Committee of the SED (successor to Horst Schumann ). During this time he studied in Moscow in 1956 and became a social scientist.

From 1958 to 1960 he acted as second secretary and from April 1960 to April 1966 as first secretary of the SED district leadership Berlin-Friedrichshain (successor to Kurt Thieme ). After the replacement of the full-time party secretary of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) Lotar Ziert and the founding of the SED district party organization of the Academy of Sciences in May 1969, he became 1st secretary of the district leadership and held this function until November 1989. Klemm was from June 1962 until March 1967 and again from June 1969 to February 1984 member of the SED district leadership in Berlin.

From June 1971 (8th Party Congress) he belonged to the Central Committee of the SED as a candidate and from June 1975 (14th Central Committee Conference) as a member. From 1971 to November 1989 he was a member of the Presidium of the AdW. In 1973 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and appointed professor in July 1985 .

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 159.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , pp. 173-174.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 401 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Well-known academy scientists . In: Neues Deutschland , July 12, 1985, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Klemm, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German youth and party functionary (FDJ / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunzlau
DATE OF DEATH 2011