Kurt Gregor

Kurt Gregor (born August 21, 1907 in Dresden ; † May 5, 1990 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade in the GDR .

Life

The son of a worker completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer after attending primary school from 1923 to 1926 and worked in Dresden until 1927. From 1926 to 1931 he took evening courses to become a mechanical engineer. From 1927 to 1932 he worked as a technician and engineer in Dresden machine works. He joined the KPD and the Red Aid in 1931 and worked from 1932 to 1938 as a technician and technical director in various machine factories in the Soviet Union . He then returned to Germany, where he worked as a technical manager in machine factories, especially in Dresden, until 1945, and did illegal political work.

In 1946 Gregor joined the SED and the FDGB . From 1946 to 1950 he was head of the main economic planning department of the state government of Saxony , then in 1950/1951 State Secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industry and 1951/1952 State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade. From 1952 to 1954 he was Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade. On November 9, 1954, he was severely reprimanded by the party for failing to implement a resolution by the Council of Ministers and allowing state property to be squandered. He became State Secretary again, but remained head of the ministry until April 1955. From October 1956 he was deputy chairman of the State Planning Commission (SPK) and head of the main department for perspective planning. On August 1, 1958, he was appointed First Deputy of the SPK and on December 8, 1958, a member of the GDR's Council of Ministers .

Gregor was from 1958 to 1963 deputy of the People's Chamber , from July 1961 Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council and deputy from June 1963 to February 1967 Secretary of the CMEA -Sekretariats in Moscow .

His grave is in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the burial complex for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime .

Awards

1957 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1970 in gold
1982 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

Andreas Herbst , Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, p. 111.
Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Gregor, Kurt . 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 term. Kongress-Verlag Berlin, 1959, p. 284.

Individual evidence

↑ Minutes No. 32/54 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on November 9, 1954 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/2/388.
↑ Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans buried . In: Neue Zeit , January 27, 1955, p. 1.
↑ Minutes No. 10/67 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on February 7, 1967 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/1276.

personal data
SURNAME	Gregor, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED), MdV, Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	May 5th 1990
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Minutes No. 32/54 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on November 9, 1954 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/2/388.

[2] Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans buried . In: Neue Zeit , January 27, 1955, p. 1.

[3] Minutes No. 10/67 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on February 7, 1967 - Federal Archives DY 30 / J IV 2/3/1276.