Karl Nendel
Karl Nendel (born April 20, 1933 in Falkenau ; † February 5, 2019 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German economic functionary. For many years he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR .
Life
After attending elementary school from 1947 to 1950, the son of a locksmith learned to be an electrician in the Espenhain combine . In 1948 he joined the FDJ . He graduated from the mining engineering school in Zwickau from 1952 to 1955 as an electrical engineer. In 1954 he became a member of the SED . He first worked as an engineer in the 'Erich Weinert' lignite combine in Deuben and from 1956 to 1961 as a construction manager at VEB Kohlenanlagen Leipzig. In 1961 he took up a job as an employee in the coal department of the State Planning Commission of the GDR. From 1963 to 1965 he was head of the electronic industry department in the GDR's Economics Council . After the dissolution of the National Economic Council and the formation of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics in December 1965, he became Deputy Minister and was then State Secretary in the Ministry from July 1967 to November 1989 . He was released from his position by the Modrow government . From March 1976 to November 1989 he was also a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin .
He headed the state management groups “CAD / CAM” and “Datennetz” and from 1977 also acted as government commissioner for microelectronics . So he also gained influence on the computer forge of the GDR, the VEB Kombinat Robotron . Among other things, he was responsible for the transfer of computer technology and microelectronic manufacturing systems from western industrialized countries. This was only possible by circumventing the COCOM embargo. Karl Nendel, together with Schalck-Golodkowski, was responsible for the “central state management of the implementation of embargo imports”; for the national economy as well as for the National People's Army , as well as for the MfS and its espionage apparatus, the main intelligence department (HVA).
The harshness and intransigence that characterized him in the implementation of tasks earned him the nickname “Revolver-Karl”, the implementation of the party line stood above objective-rational arguments: “... you as a non-comrade did not understand the tasks of the party and government correctly ... " .
After the political change , Nendel held a leading position for a medium-sized electronics company until 2003 - a former Robotron plant in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz , now known as ELCON Systemtechnik GmbH . In 1998 Nendel was fined for his involvement in the embargo trade. In the early 2000s, he gradually retired. Karl Nendel lived in Müncheberg and died on February 5, 2019 in Frankfurt (Oder).
Awards
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1976 Order Banner of Labor Stage III
- 1979 Honorary title of Honored Metal Worker of the German Democratic Republic
- 1980 Artur Becker Gold Medal
- 1987 Honorary Title Hero of Labor
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , p. 224.
- FUNKAMATEUR magazine , military publishing house of the GDR, ISSN 0016-2833 , 1988 issue 12, title page.
- Hubertus Knabe : The infiltrated republic - Stasi in the west. Propylaea Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3549055897 .
- Gerhardt Ronneberger: Code name "Saale". High-tech smugglers under Schalck-Golodkowski. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3320019678 .
- Karl Nendel: General of the microelectronics . Verlag edition berolina, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95841-075-6 .
Web links
- Gerhard Merkel: On the industrial history of the city of Dresden from 1945 to 1990: VEB Kombinat Robotron, seat in Dresden, a combine of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR. (PDF, 592 kB) Friends of Technical Collections Dresden, December 30, 2005, accessed on June 8, 2015 .
- Gerhard Barkleit: Microelectronics in the GDR - SED, State Apparatus and State Security in the Contest of Systems , Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden 2000. (accessed on March 31, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bundesarchiv DC 20-I / 3/607, short biography in the minutes of the 1st meeting of the GDR Council of Ministers on July 13, 1967.
- ^ New Germany of September 23, 1965
- ↑ Bundesarchiv DC 20-I / 3/2884, minutes of the 7th meeting of the GDR Council of Ministers on December 21, 1989.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 29, 1976
- ↑ Affairs: Highest restricted level. In: Der Spiegel May 13, 1991.
- ↑ PDF, minutes of the meeting for the development of the GDR game console BSS01
- ↑ Andreas Förster: Leybold managers delivered know-how to the GDR: company documents privately sold to the Stasi. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 20, 1998, accessed June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Congratulations on the 82nd birthday in "Müncheberger Nachrichten" No. 2 of March 23, 2015 (accessed on March 31, 2017).
- ↑ Karl Nendel died: A life for microelectronics Märkische Oderzeitung , accessed on February 27, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nendel, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Revolver-Karl (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) and economic functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Falkenau (Flöha) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2019 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt (Oder) |