Karl-Albert Fuchs

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Karl-Albert Fuchs (born February 7, 1920 in Markkleeberg ; † April 13, 2015 in Bad Berka ) was a German civil engineer, university professor and politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1963 to 1966 he was Deputy Minister for Science, Project Planning and International Cooperation , from 1970 to 1983 Rector of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar , and at times Vice President of the German Building Academy (DBA) and Chairman of the Chamber of Technology of the GDR .

Life

Fuchs, the son of a housewife and a postman, attended primary school in Oetzsch and the Herderschule in Leipzig , where he graduated from high school in March 1938. In the same year he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then into military service. After the beginning of the Second World War , Fuchs remained a soldier and became a gun leader and NCO in the Africa Corps . In 1942 he was taken prisoner by the British and was interned in Egypt , Canada and Great Britain until his release in 1947 .

Fuchs returned to Saxony and trained as a bricklayer in a retraining course at Bauhof-GmbH in Leipzig. From 1947 to 1954 he studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden specializing in structural engineering. In 1948 he was elected to the student council and was its chairman in 1949/50.

After successfully completing his studies, Fuchs became structural engineer in the building law and building supervision department of the Ministry of Construction in 1954, head of the production technology sector in the Ministry of Building in 1955 and head of the industrial and civil engineering sector in the same position in 1956. In 1959/60 he was Technical Director at VEB Ingenieur-Tiefbau Brandenburg , in 1960 he returned to the Ministry of Construction in East Berlin as Head of the Technology Department .

From 1963 to 1966, Fuchs was Deputy Minister for Science, Project Planning and International Cooperation in the GDR. From 1961 to 1985 he was a full member and from 1966 to 1968 Vice President of the Deutsche Bauakademie (DBA). From 1955 to 1990 Fuchs was also a member and from 1964 to 1972 chairman of the Chamber of Technology of the GDR.

In 1968 Fuchs was appointed full professor for civil engineering at the University of Architecture and Building (HAB) Weimar and became its first prorector in the same year. From December 1970 to January 1983, Fuchs was rector of the HAB.

From 1947 Fuchs was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and from 1971 to 1990 a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt . Until 2002 he was a member of the SED successor party, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). From 1949 to 1990 he was a member and from 1972 to 1990 chairman of the Erfurt district board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF). Fuchs last lived in Weimar.

tomb

He is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

Honors

Fonts

  • The position of the Bauhaus in history and the significance of its legacy for the developed socialist society In: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der HAB Weimar , Weimar 1976, issue 5/6.
  • Speech of the outgoing rector on the investiture of January 14, 1983 In: A. Preiß, K.-J. Winkler: Weimar concepts. The art and building college 1860–1995 . Weimar 1996, Document 98.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New rector at Weimar's School of Architecture . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 13, 1983, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Karl-Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, deputy minister for science of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Markkleeberg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2015
Place of death Bad Berka