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.
literature
- Andreas Herbst : Joachim Funke . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Joachim Funke in the catalog of the German National Library
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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 |