Manfred Flegel
Manfred Flegel (born June 3, 1927 in Magdeburg ; † November 10, 2018 ) was a German politician ( NDPD ). He was Minister for Materials Management , Minister for Trade and Supply and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR .
Life
Flegel was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1945 and was taken prisoner by the US . He attended high school until 1947 and then worked as a trainee at the Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1948 to 1952 he studied social sciences and finance in Rostock and Berlin .
Flegel joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) in 1948. From 1950 to March 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber , until 1954 as a member of the Economic Committee and until 1967 as a member and chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee. At the same time he was from 1953 to 1959 department head of the party executive of the NDPD and until 1990 a member of its main committee, also from 1987 to 1989 deputy party chairman.
From November 1967 to 1989 he was deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and from 1971 to 1974 Minister for Materials Management, then until 1989 chairman of the State Contracting Court .
Flegel was a member of the secretariat of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front from 1959 to 1964.
In the Modrow government , Flegel was Minister for Trade and Supply. In 1990 he took early retirement .
After the NDPD joined the League of Free Democrats , Flegel became its member and later a member of the FDP
Flegel received the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1977 and in 1987 the Medal of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.
Manfred Flegel died at the age of 91.
Publications
- The real existing GDR. Participant's views . Berlin 2010.
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Flegel, Manfred . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 2./3. May 1987, p. 4.
- ^ Obituary notice in the Junge Welt from November 24, 2018, p. 11.
Alfred Neumann (SED, 1965–1968) | Erich Haase (SED, 1968–1971) | Manfred Flegel (NDPD, 1971–1974) | Wolfgang Rauchfuß (SED, 1974–1989)
Karl Hamann (LDPD, 1949–1952) | Curt Wach (SED, 1953-1959) | Curt-Heinz Merkel (SED, 1959–1963) | Gerhard Lucht (SED, 1963–1965) | Günter Sieber (SED, 1965–1972) | Gerhard Briksa (SED, 1972–1989) | Manfred Flegel (NDPD, 1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flegel, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NDPD), MdV and Minister for Materials Management, Minister for Trade and Supply |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 2018 |