Karl Namokel
Karl Namokel (born August 9, 1927 in Demmin , † July 25, 1988 in Rostock ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was 1st Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .
Life
The son of a baker attended elementary school and was trained as a shipbuilder in Stettin from 1942 to 1944 . Then he was in the Reich Labor Service and from September 1944 to May 1945 a soldier in the Wehrmacht with the last rank of sailor. On May 5, 1945 he deserted and returned to Demmin.
He got by with odd jobs and joined the KPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED and FDJ in 1946. From June 1948 to January 1949 he was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership Demmin . After attending the Mecklenburg State Party School, he went to the Stralsund shipyard , where he was secretary of the FDJ basic organization from June 1949 to 1950 and then until 1951 first secretary of the SED party organization. From February 1951 to March 1952 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow . From April to July 1952 he was secretary for economics of the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg and then until May 1955 secretary for economics of the SED district leadership in Rostock and from 1954 to 1955 a member of the Rostock district assembly .
From May 1955 to May 1959 he succeeded Erich Honecker as 1st Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ. On the VI. Parliament of the FDJ he was replaced because of "weaknesses and his lack of experience in youth work". From July 1958 to January 1963 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED . At the same time he was from October 1958 to 1963 a member of the People's Chamber and chairman of the youth committee there.
From 1959 to 1963 he studied shipbuilding in Rostock- Warnemünde with a degree as a shipbuilding engineer and then worked as an employee in the area of vocational training at VVB Schiffbau and its successor institution, Kombinat Schiffbau . In May 1986 he received a disability pension.
Awards
- 1970 Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1987 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- Artur Becker Medal in gold
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Namokel, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 363f
- Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag Berlin, 1959
Web links
Erich Honecker (1946–1955) | Karl Namokel (1955–1959) | Horst Schumann (1959–1967) | Günther Jahn (1967–1974) | Egon Krenz (1974–1983) | Eberhard Aurich (1983–1989) | Frank Türkowsky (1989–1990) Birgit Schröder (1990–1991)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Namokel, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdV and FDJ chairman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Demmin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1988 |
| Place of death | Rostock |