Karl Kasten
Karl Kasten (born January 7, 1909 in Mertschütz , today Poland, † January 19, 1981 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ) and from 1953 to 1954 Lord Mayor of Rostock .
Life
Karl Kasten was the son of a farmer. After attending school and an apprenticeship as a locksmith, he worked as a locksmith, lathe operator and milling cutter. From 1932 to 1933 he was employed by the Red Aid in Germany . Karl Kasten had been a member of the KPD since 1930 and in 1932 took over the post of deputy head of organization of the KPD district leader in Upper Silesia. He was arrested in February 1933 and remained in " protective custody " until August . After his release, Karl Kasten took over a paper duplication business in Breslau . He then worked underground in Munich. In 1937, Kasten was a member of the Berlin resistance group around Anton Saefkow . There is no information about his activities during the Second World War .
From 1945 to 1946, Kasten was head of the police station in the Wedding district . With the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED in 1946, Karl Kasten became their member. From 1946 to 1947 he was employed by the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , before he was employed as plant manager for the peat company in Schwerin from 1947 to 1948. In a short period of time, Karl Kasten held a number of managerial positions, for example in 1949 as senior consultant for mechanical engineering in the Mecklenburg state government, from 1949 to 1950 as technical director of VVB Maschinenbau Rostock and from 1950 as its main director. From 1951 to 1952 he was the head of the economic planning department of the state government and from 1952 to 1953 labor director of the Warnow shipyard in Rostock. After completing what was presumably a distance learning course, he became a mechanical engineer from 1953.
From 1953 to 1954 Karl Kasten was Lord Mayor of Rostock, from 1954 to 1958 State Secretary for Local Economy, then until 1960 Chairman of the District Economic Council in Suhl and from 1961 head of the secretariat of the State Planning Commission . In 1968 he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4887 .
Web links
- Literature about Karl Kasten in the state bibliography MV
- Andreas Herbst : Karl Kasten . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , December 10, 1968, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Box, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) and Lord Mayor of Rostock |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mertschütz , now Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1981 |
| Place of death | Berlin |