Klaus Dechant

Klaus Dechant (born May 24, 1928 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 20, 2020 ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party DBD . He was chairman of the district board of hall of the DBD.

Life

Dechant, son of a teacher , attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship in agriculture between 1945 and 1948. In 1949 he joined the DBD. He qualified as a state-certified farmer to agronomist and his doctorate in 1968. Dr. agr. at the University of Agriculture and Food Management in Bernburg (Saale) .

Dechant worked for several years as the deputy director of the Institute for Agriculture at the Council of the Halle District and as head of the scientific and technical center of the Agriculture and Food Management Department of the Halle District Council. From 1977 he was a member of the secretariat of the Halle district board of the DBD. From May 1982 to 1990 Dechant acted as chairman of the district board of the DBD and was a member of the party board of the DBD.

From 1966 to 1990 he was a member of the Halle District Assembly . Dechant was also a member of the district committee of the National Front of the GDR .

Fonts

• (with Günter Frießleben): All about the potato. From the work of the “Potato Production” working group of the “Field Management” activity . Permanent Commission on Agriculture, Halle 1963.
• Possibilities of producing potato crops for consumer production in the Halle district . University of Agriculture and Food Management, Bernburg 1968 (dissertation).

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1977)

literature

• Protocol of the XII. Congress of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, April 28-30, 1987, Rostock Sports and Congress Hall . Executive Committee of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, Berlin 1987, p. 342.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 45.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 61.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 114.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Halle) from March 7, 2020.