Lothar Moritz

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Lothar Moritz (born May 24, 1943 in Zschochau ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). He was chairman of the CDU district association Schwerin and state secretary in the office of the prime minister of the GDR .

Life

Moritz, son of a farmer, completed an apprenticeship with Abitur at the VE Hauptgestüt Graditz and studied agricultural sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . The studies he finished 1967 as agricultural engineer and was then scientific aspirant at the Institute of Agronomy of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR in Müncheberg . In 1970 he became a member of the CDU and in 1972 local group chairman of the party in Müncheberg. After his military service in the NVA , he worked as a research assistant at the Research Center for Soil Fertility in Müncheberg, where he became a specialist engineer for socialist business administration in 1973 and a Dr. agr. PhD.

From 1971 to 1982 he was a member of the Frankfurt (Oder) District Assembly and a member of the Standing Commission for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management. Moritz was elected a member of the Frankfurt (Oder) CDU district board in 1975 and was appointed a member of the district secretariat and head of the economics department of the CDU district board in 1976. From April 27, 1982 to March 1990, he acted as chairman of the Schwerin district association of the CDU. In October 1982 he was elected a member of the main board at the 15th party congress of the CDU.

In December 1989 Moritz was the coordinator for the preparation of the special party congress of the CDU, at which new structures and governing bodies were created. At the founding party convention of the CDU state association Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania on March 3, 1990, he was only just defeated in the election of the state chairman to Günther Krause and was elected managing director of the state association. In March 1990 he stood as a candidate for the CDU for the Volkskammer election , but was not able to win a mandate with the 10th place on the list in the Schwerin constituency. In April 1990, Lothar de Maizière appointed him State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office. He held this office until German reunification in early October 1990.

Moritz later served on the board of the German Committee for European Security and Cooperation.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 218.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 558. From Google Books (accessed on May 24, 2016).

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesverband Mecklenburg und Vorpommern : In: Neue Zeit , March 5, 1990, p. 2.
  2. ^ CDU candidates for the Volkskammer elections on March 18 . In: Neue Zeit, March 8, 1990, p. 5.
  3. ↑ No resting place for old comrades and recorders . In: Neue Zeit, May 27, 1991, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Moritz, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschochau