Karin Günther

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Karin Günther (born August 27, 1952 in Zwickau ) is a German designer and former party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . From 1988 to 1990 she was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Karin Günther learned the trade of a shoe worker. She was trained as a qualified engineer for leather processing technology at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt . She was supposed to take over the grandfather's shoe factory, but the family business was expropriated in 1972. So she came to the GDR fashion institute in East Berlin in 1974 , was initially a research assistant, then a department head or head of the institute's leather goods workshop.

She became a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) and was a member of the Berlin city council from 1981 to 1986 . At the NDPD party congresses in April 1982 and May 1987 in Leipzig she was elected a member of the party's main committee. In June 1986 she was sent by the NDPD as the successor candidate to the People's Chamber and accepted as a member of the People's Chamber at the 6th session of the People's Chamber on June 30, 1988 as the successor to the disabled Friedrich Otto . She belonged to the People's Chamber until March 1990.

In January 1990 she was appointed director of the GDR fashion institute by the GDR Minister for Light Industry . In August 1990 she became managing director of the institute, which was converted into a GmbH. In 1993 she loaned her life insurance and took over the company she had previously worked for.

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 708.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joint nomination by the National Front of the GDR for the elections to the city council of Berlin, capital of the GDR, on June 14, 1981 . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 19, 1981, p. 10.
  2. ^ 6th meeting of the People's Chamber of the GDR . In: Neue Zeit , July 1, 1988, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Personal details . In: Berliner Zeitung, January 19, 1990, p. 3.
  4. ↑ In their own country, the designers were of little importance . In: Neue Zeit, October 30, 1991, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Susanne Dübber: Fashion Institute. As famous today as it was in GDR times . Berliner Kurier dated September 9, 2004 (accessed September 5, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau