Klaus Siebold

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Klaus Siebold (born September 12, 1930 in Laubusch ; † June 23, 1995 in Spremberg ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Minister for Coal and Energy in the GDR .

Life

After training as a miner, Siebold studied at a mining engineering school and at the party college "Karl Marx" , from which he graduated as a mining engineer and as a graduate social scientist. Since 1952 he was a full-time SED functionary. From 1957 to 1959 he worked as the head of a lignite works, after which he was head of the coal industry at the National Economic Council (VWR) and the State Planning Commission until 1963 . From 1963 to 1965 he was deputy chairman of the VWR for the coal and energy sector. From December 1965 to 1971 he was Minister for Basic Industries and from November 1971 to 1979 Minister for Coal and Energy.

In April 1978 he signed an agreement in Maputo to send further GDR specialists to Mozambique . Since January 1978 miners from the GDR had eliminated the consequences of a firedamp explosion in the coal mines of Moatize , in which over 100 Mozambican miners had been killed the previous year. As chairman of the GDR side of the GDR – Mozambique Joint Economic Committee, Siebold stayed twice in Mozambique in 1978 and was received each time by President Samora Machel .

He was replaced because of the energy crisis in the winter of 1978/79 . When the snowfall in January 1979 threatened the GDR's power supply, Siebold ordered area shutdowns. As a result, numerous district heating pumps failed and families had to be evacuated from their cold apartments. In addition, the young cattle were frozen in the cold stalls and the chickens in the laying batteries. Before the start of the snow disaster, Siebold was at the 9th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED on 13/14. December 1978 still expressly praised by the candidate of the Politburo Werner Walde . At the 10th meeting of the Central Committee on April 27, 1979, there was criticism from Erich Honecker , who called for a decisive improvement in management activities in the Ministry of Coal and Energy. “Sudden shutdowns must not even be necessary.” On June 28, 1979, he was recalled as minister by the chairman of the Council of Ministers Willi Stoph . While he was replaced without any appreciation, the Minister for Ore Mining and Metallurgy , Kurt Fichtner , who had also been dismissed, was thanked for his work. Siebold was then transferred to industry, among other things, he worked as director of the lignite works in Welzow .

In the Volkskammer election in 1990 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the PDS in the Cottbus constituency.

Awards

Siebold was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (October 7, 1964), silver (1971) and gold (October 7, 1974).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 23, 1965, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 30, 1971, p. 2.
  3. ^ New Germany , April 25, 1978, p. 2.
  4. ^ Neues Deutschland , July 11, 1978, p. 1 and Neues Deutschland , December 19, 1978, p. 2.
  5. ^ GDR - Actually expensive . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1979, pp. 67 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Ulbricht's shadow grows. The GDR in its thirtieth year (I): Forward to the past . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1979, pp. 108 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 15, 1978, p. 5.
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland , April 28, 1979, p. 4.
  9. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , June 29, 1979, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 9, 1990, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Siebold, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, Minister for Coal and Energy of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leaf bush
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1995
Place of death Spremberg