Klaus Blessing

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Klaus Blessing (born September 24, 1936 in Liegnitz ) is a German author of political non-fiction books and a former politician and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was head of the mechanical engineering department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED and 1989/90 deputy minister for heavy industry of the GDR.

Life

Blessing, the son of a commercial employee, began to work as a business economist at VEB Maxhütte in 1958 after completing secondary school , studying business administration at the University of Leipzig and graduating as an economist . Until 1966 he attended the engineering school for automation and materials technology in Hennigsdorf and was then department head in VEB Eisenerz-Roheisen until 1968 . In 1967 he joined the SED.

From 1968 to 1970 Blessing was division manager at VEB Eisenhüttenkombinat in Eisenhüttenstadt and then until 1979 head of the planning and economics department in the GDR Ministry for Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Potash (MEMK). 1979/80 Blessing studied at the party college "Karl Marx" . From 1980 to 1986 he was State Secretary at MEMK. In succession to Gerhard Tautenhahn , Blessing was head of the mechanical engineering department of the Central Committee of the SED from March 1986 to December 1989 .

After the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Blessing was Deputy Minister for Heavy Industry from December 1989 until the resignation of the Hans Modrow government on April 12, 1990.

Blessing describes the GDR in various writings and contradicts the statements that portray the GDR as economically bankrupt. He was co-author of a book about Joachim Gauck published in 2013 , which was rated as "outrageous accounting" at the time . In the Tagesspiegel , Antje Sirleschtov said: “Both authors judge Gauck's person and his ability to hold the office of president from the point of view of those responsible for the GDR system, whom Gauck, as head of the Stasi records authority, dragged into the public eye after the end of the GDR. Those affected, therefore, whose louder and enlightening motives can be questioned. ”A sequel - again written together with Manfred Manteuffel - appeared in 2015 under the title Joachim Gauck. The wrong man? New facts and oddities .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • (with Klaus Oppermann): Economics of Metallurgy . German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1984.
  • Is Socialist Capitalism Possible? Experiences and conclusions from two social systems . Edition Ost , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-360-01043-4 .
  • The debts of the west: what has the GDR contributed to the prosperity of the FRG? Edition Ost, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-360-01816-8 .
  • (with Manfred Manteuffel): Joachim Gauck. The right man? Edition Berolina, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86789-803-4 .
  • The socialist future. No end to the story! A polemic . Edition Berolina, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86789-831-7 .
  • (with Wolfgang Kuhn): The cemented split. The East is left behind. Facts, figures, statistics . Edition Berolina, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95841-000-8 .
  • (with Manfred Manteuffel): Joachim Gauck. The wrong man? New facts and oddities . Edition Berolina, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95841-012-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Blessing: Was the GDR bankrupt in 1989? (PDF; 37 kB) In: Junge Welt , September 15, 2008 link .
  2. ↑ Martin Machowecz: Is that really organic? Mario Frank did not write the first Gauck book: There is already a work to be taken seriously and two outrageous accounts . In: Zeit online , October 10, 2013.
  3. ^ Antje Sirleschtov: Joachim Gauck. The president and his ego . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Political Book. Gauck looked. Reading sample. In: Neues Deutschland , June 27, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Blessing, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED) and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz