Horst Wambutt

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Horst Wambutt (* 6. February 1932 in Kriescht ) is a German former politician and functionary of the SED in the GDR .

Life

The son of a locksmith completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith after attending primary school between 1946 and 1950 . In 1950 he became a member of the FDJ and was then until 1951 instructor and head of a department of the FDJ district leadership Bad Freienwalde . Afterwards he was a teacher at the state youth school of the FDJ in Bärenklau , before he was head of a department of the FDJ district management in Cottbus from 1952 to 1954 and in 1953 became a member of the SED.

Between 1956 and 1961 he was an aspirant at the Institute for History (IfG) at the Humboldt University in Berlin and, as a graduate economist, he was also head of a chair at the Central Youth College of the FDJ " Wilhelm Pieck " at Lake Bogensee . After his doctorate as Dr. rer. oec. In 1964 with a doctoral thesis on the organization and management of the preparation, production and delivery of complete systems by mechanical engineering - VVB Chemieanlagen , he became an employee, and then in 1965 sector manager of the mechanical engineering and metallurgy department of the Central Committee of the SED .

In 1969 Wambutt, who was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for the first time in 1969 , succeeded Hilmar Tröger as head of the basic industry department of the SED Central Committee . He kept this function until the end of the SED in 1989, where he was obliged to report to the SED Central Committee Secretary for Economic Affairs, Günter Mittag , in particular for uranium mining in the SDAG Wismut .

In 1981 he became a member of the People's Chamber as a representative of the SED and was a member of the People's Chamber during the eighth and ninth electoral periods until March 1990. In 1982 he was honored with the VVO in gold. In addition, he temporarily worked as a lecturer for the Academy for Social Sciences (AfG) at the Central Committee of the SED.

After the end of the GDR he settled as a pensioner in Heidesee ( Brandenburg ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lothar Mertens : Red think tank ?. LIT Verlag Münster, 2004, ISBN 978-3-825-88034-7 , p. 155 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Rainer Karlsch: Uranium for Moscow. Ch. Links Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-861-53427-3 , p. 255 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. Berliner Zeitung , 27./28. February 1982, p. 4