Kurt good

Kurt Guter (born September 1, 1921 in Berlin ; † October 27, 2001 ) was a German politician ( SED ) and lawyer . He was chairman of the council of the district of Neubrandenburg .

Life

Guter, son of the director of Universum Film AG (UFA) Johannes Guter and an actress, attended elementary school and high school in Potsdam , where he graduated from high school. He studied economics for three semesters at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , but then became a camera assistant at the UFA in Potsdam. In 1941 he was called up for military service in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war he stayed in West Germany until December 1945 and then came to Zingst on a transport .

In 1946 he joined the SED and was initially active in local politics. From 1946 to 1948 he was community secretary and councilor in Zingst . 1948/1949 he served as mayor in Franzburg , then 1949/1950 as a district council of the Interior in Stralsund operates. From 1950 to 1953 he was chairman of the Malchin district council and from 1954 to 1956 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Malchin. In 1955 he completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law as a qualified lawyer. From 1956 to April 1958 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg . On April 2nd and 3rd, 1958, he took part in the Political and Legal Conference in Babelsberg and became a member of the Politburo Commission for Political and Legal Studies.

1958/1959 he was first deputy of the chairman, from June 1959 to July 1962 then chairman of the council of the district of Neubrandenburg, from 1962 to 1966 then again its deputy chairman. From 1966 to December 10, 1988 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Prenzlau . At the last SED district delegate conference in Prenzlau, he was replaced by Wolfgang Herrmann . Good was 1959 to 1962 also a member of the office of the SED district leadership Neubrandenburg and 1958-1974 Member of the District Day .

In 1981 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and in 1986 the Bar of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 104.
• 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. 262.
• Heinz Mohnhaupt (Ed.): Norm enforcement in Eastern European post-war societies . Volume 5.1: German Democratic Republic (1958–1989). Law and jurists in the mirror of the decisions of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 94 and 155.
• Andreas Herbst :  Good, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ SED district secretaries in the DS Sunday conversation . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 12, 1966, p. 2.
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 2, 1986, p. 4.