Karl Vogel (politician, 1925)

Karl Vogel (* 21st May 1925 in Oelsnitz , † 18th April 2004 ) was a German politician and functionary of the SED .

Life

The son of a farmer , after attending the elementary school as an agricultural assistant and became a soldier in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War in Soviet captivity , during which he an anti-fascist school attended.

After the Second World War he joined the FDJ and was first political director of the machine rental station (MAS) in Niederwürschnitz in 1949, before becoming an instructor and then deputy head of a department in the central council of the FDJ in 1949. After joining the SED, he studied at the Komsomol University in Moscow from 1951 to 1952 and, on his return, was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Suhl from 1952 to 1958 . At the same time he was a member of the SED district leadership and first a candidate, then a member of the office of the SED district leadership. From 1954 to 1958 he was also a member of the Suhl District Assembly .

Between 1958 and 1961 Vogel completed a degree at the party college of the CPSU and graduated with a degree in social science . After he returned to the GDR, between 1961 and 1985 he was an employee and sector manager in the youth department of the Central Committee of the SED . During this time he was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1978 .

In 1985, Vogel succeeded Waldemar Pilz as head of the Friendly Parties department in the SED Central Committee and held this position until December 1989. He was also a member of the People's Chamber from 1986 to March 1990 and was a member of the Constitutional and Legal Committee during the ninth electoral term on.

Web links

• Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Vogel, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1978, p. 4