Kurt Kleinert

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Kurt Kleinert (born June 1, 1927 in Breslau ; † April 21, 2016 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was State Secretary and for many years head of the secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the GDR .

Life

As the son of a shoemaker, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service immediately after attending elementary and secondary school in 1943 and the Wehrmacht in 1944. In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States, from which he was released in May 1946.

In 1946 he became a member of the KPD in Lower Saxony, in 1947 went to the Soviet zone of occupation and became a member of the SED. He first worked as a car mechanic in Dresden and graduated from the Workers and Farmers Faculty (ABF). From 1949 to 1953 he studied economics at the Technical University of Dresden with a degree in economics. He then worked as an assistant at the TH Dresden until 1954. From 1954 to 1955 he was the main consultant in the Ministry of Heavy Industry in the GDR and from 1955 to 1960 he was Vice-Rector for Student Affairs at the Technical University of Chemistry in Leuna-Merseburg. In 1960 he was promoted to Dr. rer. oec. PhD. He then worked as secretary of the standing commission for economic and scientific-technical cooperation in the field of the chemical industry in the council for mutual economic aid (Comecon). From 1964 to 1965 he worked as head of the chemistry department in the National Economic Council (VWR). 1966/67 he was deputy head of the office of the Council of Ministers and from 1967 to 1972 deputy state secretary and deputy head of the working group on state and economic management at the Council of Ministers. From 1972 to 1974 he worked as Deputy State Secretary and Deputy Head of the Office of the Council of Ministers, from 1974 to November 1989 as State Secretary and Head of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the GDR (successor to Rudolf Rost ).

On January 4, 1990, he was questioned by the investigative committee of the People's Chamber to investigate abuse of office and corruption, chaired by Heinrich Toeplitz . In particular, it was about the construction or expansion of houses for "nomenclature cadres" and personal privileges. He, Kleinert, relied on “that the funds were always used properly”. The committee stated that “in this survey, too, those responsible could not identify those responsible”. On January 21, 1990, the Public Prosecutor's Office announced that arrest warrants had been issued in connection with the ongoing investigations against Horst Sindermann for criminal infidelity and abuse of trust and against Wolfgang Junker , Kurt Kleinert and Günter Schilling for criminal breach of trust . At the end of 1991 he was sentenced by the Berlin Regional Court to 15 months imprisonment with probation and a fine of 8,000 marks for infidelity. According to the Berlin judiciary, he withdrew his appeal against the judgment.

Kleinert died in April 2016 at the age of 88.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigative Committee of the People's Chamber questioned Hager, Sindermann and Kleinert . In: Neue Zeit , January 5, 1990, p. 2
  2. ↑ More Exfunktionäre in custody . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 22, 1990, p. 1.
  3. ↑ The judgment was correct . In: Berliner Zeitung, March 14, 1992, p. 4.
  4. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung, April 30, 2016, p. 18.
personal data
SURNAME Kleinert, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2016