Karl Kuron

Karl Kuron (born May 4, 1918 in Duisburg - Meiderich ; † May 27, 1992 ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ) and politician ( SED ). For many years he was chairman of the FDGB district committee in Erfurt .

Life

Kuron, son of a working class family, attended elementary school , completed an apprenticeship as a plumber and later worked in this profession. He became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth . In 1937 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . Kuron did military service and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He attended an anti-fascist school . On behalf of 853 delegates from prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, in July 1949, in a letter to the central organ of the SED Neues Deutschland , he welcomed the appearance of the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyshinsky at the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference against the plan of the Western powers, according to which the " Bonn Constitution " was the basis for the unification of Germany should be and praised the example of the Eastern Zone (SBZ).

When he returned to Germany in 1949, Kuron did not return to his hometown Duisburg-Meiderich / Beeck , but went to the Soviet Zone. In the same year he became a member of the FDGB and in 1950 the SED. From 1950 to 1953 he was the executive and cultural director of the VEB Optima in Erfurt . He then worked from May 1953 to March 1982 as chairman of the FDGB district board in Erfurt (successor to Otto Lang). Kuron was also a member of the district assembly as well as a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt and a member of the office or, from 1967, the secretariat of the district leadership. From 1955 he was a candidate, from 1959 to 1989 a member of the FDGB federal executive committee, from June 1972 to April 1982 also a member of the executive committee of the federal executive committee. From January 1963 to April 1981 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED and from May 1982 chairman of the Erfurt District Committee of People's Solidarity .

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the GDR (1959)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1964), in silver (1968) and in gold (1974)
• Honorary Title Hero of Labor (1978)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 201.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 182.
• 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. 452.
• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1010.
• Andreas Herbst: Kuron, Karl . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Front and Prisoners of War . In: Neues Deutschland, July 13, 1949, p. 2.