Karl Bettin

Karl Bettin (born April 7, 1930 in Bernsdorf (Oberlausitz) ) is a former German politician ( SED ). He was Minister for Glass and Ceramics Industry and Minister for Light Industry in the GDR .

Life

Bettin, son of a laborer, learned after visiting the elementary and middle school the profession of mechanical engineer and worked in the profession. From 1948 to 1952 he worked as a partial designer or heating technician at SAG Schwarzheide , VEB Glas-Keramik Kamenz and VEB Mitteglas Cottbus . In 1952/53 he was a production engineer at VEB Glaswerk Berlin-Friedrichshain , 1953/54 senior consultant at VVB Glas Weißwasser .

In 1954 he was appointed fuel commissioner in the State Planning Commission at the Cottbus District Council, from 1954 to 1961 he then acted as deputy head or head of the local economy and industry in the Cottbus District Council. A correspondence course in economics that began in 1955 at the Berlin School of Economics , Bettin graduated in 1960 with a degree in economics . In 1956 he joined the SED .

From 1961 to 1965 he was chairman of the economic council of the Cottbus district and from 1963 to 1965 also deputy chairman of the council of the district as well as a member of the office and secretariat of the SED district leadership in Cottbus.

In 1963, Bettin was presented at the Berlin School of Economics with the work on basic questions of the planning and management of scientific-technical progress by the economic council of the district in the new economic system of planning and management of the national economy using the example of the furniture industry of the Cottbus district for Dr. rer. oec. PhD.

In 1965 he became head of the glass and ceramics department in the National Economic Council , in 1966 Deputy Minister and in 1967 State Secretary in the Ministry of Light Industry. From November 29, 1971 to November 22, 1972 he was Minister for the Glass and Ceramics Industry and from November 22, 1972 to December 15, 1978 Minister for Light Industry of the GDR. He officially resigned from this position for health reasons. From 1979 he worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management at the Central Committee of the SED .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1969) and in silver (1972)
• Artur Becker Gold Medal (1977)
• Honorary title of Honored Worker in the Light, Food and Food Industry of the German Democratic Republic (1978)

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner: Bettin, Karl . In: dies., Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 56.
• Andreas Herbst :  Bettin, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of December 16, 1978.
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1972, p. 4.