Joachim Funke (General Director)

Joachim Funke (born December 21, 1930 in Breslau (today Wrocław , Poland )) is a former economic functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1980 to 1989 he was Director General of the Data Processing Combine .

Life

Funke, son of a railroad worker, became a line worker for the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) after graduating from high school in 1945 . In 1950 he was hired as an instructor by the Thuringian State Statistical Office . From 1951 to 1955 he studied alongside his job at the “Bruno Leuschner” University of Economics in Berlin and graduated with a degree in economics . In 1970 he received his doctorate.

In 1955 Funke became deputy head, later head of the Frankfurt (Oder) district office of the State Central Administration for Statistics . In 1966 he switched to the State Central Administration for Statistics in East Berlin as deputy head . In 1975 he became general director of the Vereinigung Volkseigener Betriebe (VVB) Maschinelles Rechnen Berlin and, after its transformation in 1980, of the data processing combine . In 1989 he retired.

In 1951, Funke joined the SED. In 1960 he became a member and in 1962 deputy chairman of the revision commission of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) , in 1966 he became a candidate and in 1967 a member of the central revision commission of the SED . In 1972/73 he completed a course at the party college at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in Moscow . In the course of the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989 , he lost all party offices.

personal data
SURNAME	Funke, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SED functionary (GDR) and Konbinate director in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw