Konrad von Unruh
Konrad von Unruh (born August 1, 1920 in Eisenach ; † September 12, 2001 in Gotha ) was a German party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD . He was chairman of the Suhl district board and member of the main committee of the NDPD.
Life
Konrad von Unruh, son of the railway director Hans Curt von Unruh, attended elementary school and grammar school. He completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk and worked in this profession. During the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war.
After returning to the Soviet occupation zone , he worked as a teacher. In 1948 he became a member of the NDPD and department head of the NDPD state committee for Thuringia. From 1949 to 1952 he was a member of the Central Council of the Free German Youth (FDJ). From 1950 to 1952 he was political manager of the NDPD state executive committee in Saxony. On May 4, 1951, he replaced Hans Rüdiger as a member of the Saxon state parliament .
From 1952 to 1955 he acted as chairman of the NDPD district association Suhl. At the same time he was a member of the main committee of the NDPD and a member of the Suhl district assembly . From 1952 to 1955 he was also chairman of the Suhl district board of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship . He completed his studies in 1954 as a social scientist. From 1958 to 1982 he worked as editor-in-chief of the NDPD regional newspaper Thuringian Latest News and then as head of the publishing house of this newspaper. From 1962 to 1982 he was a member of the central board of the Association of Journalists of the GDR . From 1963 he was deputy chairman of the NDPD district committee in Erfurt and at times chairman of the Weimar city council of the GDR cultural association . In addition, from 1966 he was a member of the Presidium of the League for the United Nations in the GDR.
literature
- 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. 350.
- Andreas Herbst: Unruh, Konrad von . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unruh, Konrad von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German NDPD functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2001 |
| Place of death | Gotha |