Karl Dietzel (politician, 1928)

Karl Dietzel (born February 28, 1928 in Frankenheim / Rhön ; † December 13, 1985 in Berlin ) was a German education politician ( SED ). He was the deputy minister for popular education in the GDR .

Life

Dietzel, the son of a whip stick maker, attended elementary school in Frankenheim from 1934 to 1942 and learned the trade of a locksmith in Oberschönau from 1942 to 1945 . He then worked in the Meiningen Reichsbahn repair shop .

In 1946 he became a member of the SED and studied at the Pedagogical College in Drei 30acker . From 1946 to 1951 he was a new history teacher and, from 1947, deputy director of the Theo-Neubauer -Oberschule in Meiningen . From 1951 to 1956 he worked as a district school councilor in Meiningen. 1954/1955 he was chairman of the council of the Meiningen district and member of the SED district leadership. Between 1955 and 1958 Dietzel studied at the party college "Karl Marx" . From November 1958 to May 1961 he acted as deputy chairman of the Suhl district council . From 1961 to 1985 he was deputy minister for popular education in the GDR and from 1971 a member of the youth commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1966)
• Banners of Labor Stage I (1979)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 69.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 52.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 125.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Dietzel, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .