Klaus-Christian Fischer

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Klaus-Christian Fischer (born April 30, 1938 in Chemnitz ) is a German graduate engineer and former party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . He was a member of the People's Chamber in the GDR and State Secretary in the Modrow government . He then worked for the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry until he retired .

Life

Fischer was born as the son of an employee in Chemnitz. After he had successfully completed high school in 1956 with the Abitur , he did an internship as a steel smelter in a foundry until the beginning of his studies in 1957 . He then studied foundry science at the Freiberg Bergakademie until 1962 .

The qualified engineering graduate then got a job at VEB Leichtmetallwerk Rackwitz , one of the few processing companies for aluminum in the GDR. Fischer became a member of the NDPD in 1961 while still a student. In Rackwitz, Fischer started out as a research assistant and research engineer, later he was appointed head of research and the role of deputy technical director. Fischer's activity, which lasted in Rackwitz until 1970, was interrupted by an unscheduled traineeship between 1963 and 1967 at the Freiberg Bergakademie . Fischer researched the material aluminum, which resulted in the dissertation Thermal conditions of the semi-finished casting of aluminum . With this he received his doctorate in June 1967 .

In 1970 Fischer moved to VEB Leichtmetallwerk Nachterstedt , a newly built aluminum foundry of the Mansfeld Combine . There, Fischer was hired as technical director. As a result, Fischer was involved, among other things, in the construction of an aluminum casting plant that enabled wide- band casting for high-quality semi - finished products . This structure took place in cooperation with Soviet partners. For this development work, a collective of German and Soviet employees, to which Fischer belonged, was honored in 1973 with the GDR National Prize, Second Class for Science and Technology , which underlined the importance of this facility for the GDR's economy . Fischer belonged to the company until the summer of 1989, at the same time he began to become more involved in party politics.

In 1972 he became a member of the NDPD district committee in Halle , to which he was a member until 1984. From 1975 he worked in the NDPD district committee Aschersleben , first as a member, from 1977 he led the district association as chairman until the political change in the GDR in autumn 1989. At the 12th NDPD party congress in April 1982, the delegates elected Fischer to the NDPD - Main Committee, the highest party body that meets regularly between party congresses. In 1986 Fischer ran for the first time as a member of the People's Chamber for his party. He exercised the mandate for the entire 9th electoral term.

In the summer of 1989 Fischer left Nachterstedt and moved to the GDR Council of Ministers . With effect from July 1, 1989, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Light Industry (successor to Waldemar Harz, who died in January 1989 ). As on 7 November 1989, the Council of Ministers of the GDR to Willi Stoph stepped closed fisherman expertise was nevertheless still in demand. In the new Modrow government , the Deputy Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Economics, Christa Luft , took him to her house on November 27, 1989 as State Secretary. In terms of party politics, too, Fischer once again moved into focus . At the 14th party congress in January 1990, he was elected one of three deputies of the party chairman. A little later, Fischer ran for the People's Chamber elections on March 18, 1990 as the top candidate of his party in the Halle electoral district. In the election he won one of only two NDPD mandates and represented his party in the People's Chamber until October 1990.

When the NDPD joined the Federation of Free Democrats (BFD), Fischer became one of the deputy chairmen of the BFD. In August this electoral alliance became part of the FDP , to which Fischer belonged until 1993. Fischer also initially found a job in the de Maizière government ; until July 1990 he was head of the department for SME policy in the Ministry of Economic Affairs under Minister Gerhard Pohl . Then Fischer moved to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHT), which determined his future career from now on until retirement. Fischer was involved in building up structures for the DIHT in the GDR. He headed the Berlin liaison office of the German Industry and Commerce Conference and was managing director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Promotion of Foreign Trade and Management in Berlin, a subsidiary of the DIHT, until 2003. In addition, between 1998 and 2003 he headed the funding coordination department of the DIHT.

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  1. ^ NDPD politician became State Secretary . In: National-Zeitung , November 28, 1989, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Klaus-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foundry engineer, NDPD functionary, BFD functionary, MdV and State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz