Kurt Fenske

Kurt Fenske (born May 3, 1930 in Berlin ) is a former economic functionary and politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1967 to 1985 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade of the GDR and from 1967 to 1990 a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Fenske, son of politician Elsa Fenske and a worker, became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the SED after graduating from high school in 1946 . Until 1949 he was a member of the state executive committee of the FDJ in Saxony . Until 1954 he studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Economics "Bruno Leuschner" in Berlin and became a graduate economist .

From 1954 to 1956 Fenske was the deputy general director of the nationally owned enterprise (VEB) foreign trade company (AHU) food . By 1964 he completed a distance learning course at the Technical University of Dresden and became a qualified engineering economist . From 1956 to 1959 Fenske was an employee of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED , from 1960 to 1962 deputy and then until 1967 general director of VEB AHU Elektronik .

In 1967 Fenske was elected to the People's Chamber and until 1985 was Deputy Minister for Foreign Economics and Foreign Trade. From 1985 until the turning point and the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989, he was State Secretary for Foreign Trade and Foreign Trade.

literature

• Andreas Herbst :  Kurt Fenske . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957.
• 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 .