Horst Kreter

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Horst Kreter (born December 10, 1927 in Essen , † August 8, 2004 in Bernau ) was a party functionary of the GDR bloc party, the National Democratic Party of Germany, and from 1961 to 1982 editor-in-chief of the NDPD central organ National-Zeitung . Kreter was also a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Horst Kreter was born on December 10, 1927 as the son of a commercial employee in Essen. After obtaining secondary school leaving certificate, he was drafted into the armed forces for military service in 1943 . In 1945 Kreter was taken prisoner by the Soviets, where he remained until 1949. At Kreter, under the impression of the capitulation of Hitler's Germany, anti-fascist re-education took hold. He became a member of an Antifa committee and later a teacher at an Antifa school .

In 1949 Kreter returned to the Soviet occupation zone , albeit with clear political stipulations. Together with other functionaries, he was intended to build the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD), which was only founded in 1948, a party that primarily addressed former party members and members of the Wehrmacht. Kreter was immediately employed full-time in the party executive committee of the NDPD, where he initially worked as a department head and later as a main department head until 1952. At the same time, he began studying in 1951, later distance learning at DASR Potsdam , which he graduated in 1954 with a degree in political science. In 1952 Kreter was sent to Neubrandenburg, where he held the reins for a few months as political manager of the NDPD district committee in Neubrandenburg. From then on he was a member of the main committee until the NDPD was dissolved. When Friedrich Pfaffenbach was entrusted with the chairmanship of the Berlin NDPD district board, Kreter took over the chairmanship of the NDPD district board in Halle in 1953 as its successor. In the same year he was co-opted as the NDPD representative in the office of the Central Council of Free German Youth (FDJ), of which he remained a member until 1963. In 1954 Kreter ran for the first time for the NDPD in the People's Chamber, he represented his party as a member of parliament until March 1990. In 1955, Kreter moved up further into the party apparatus, first becoming a member of the party executive, later a member of the presidium of the main committee of the NDPD. After working in the office of the Central Council of the FDJ, Kreter changed on September 1, 1961 to the post of editor-in-chief of the NDPD central organ National-Zeitung , previously held by Gustav Siemon . In this function, Kreter also belonged to the Presidium of the Central Board of the Association of Journalists for several years . In 1982 Kreter moved from the newspaper back to the party apparatus, he was elected secretary of the main committee of the NDPD. He remained in this office until the political change in 1989. Under the newly formed Modrow government , Kreter returned to the journalistic field, he worked for several months as a department head in the government's press and information office. Then Kreter went into early retirement.

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personal data
SURNAME Kreter, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and party functionary (NDPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2004
Place of death Bernau near Berlin