Max Scholz (economist)

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Max Scholz (born September 30, 1906 in Breslau ; † June 19, 1977 ) was a German economic functionary . He was head of the Central Statistical Office at the State Planning Commission of the GDR .

Life

Scholz, the son of a working-class family, attended elementary school and learned the trade of tool fitter from a blacksmith from 1920 to 1924 . He then went on a journey through Germany , Austria and Switzerland for a year and a half, working in this profession and as a blacksmith. In 1921 Scholz joined the German Metalworkers Association and the Communist Youth Association of Germany . In 1927 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). From 1928 to 1933 he was political director of a district in Wroclaw for the KPD and from 1930 a functionary in the Marxist workers' school (MASCH) . From 1923 he was a member of the German Freethinkers Association , in 1926 he became a member of the Red Aid . Scholz was also a member of the state leadership of the Red Sports Movement in Silesia . He worked as a technical draftsman in a private company, from which he was dismissed after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 for "public hostility".

Scholz participated in the resistance against the Nazi regime . In early 1934 he was arrested for "preparing for high treason". He was unemployed until he was arrested and after he was released. It was not until 1935 that he found employment in a private company as a worker. In 1938 he was hired by the Junkers factories and worked there in costing and work preparation. In 1940, Scholz completed a three-year course of study at the State Engineering School for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Wroclaw. At the end of the war he was briefly called up for the Volkssturm .

After the war ended in 1945, Scholz moved to Weimar . In 1946 he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and attended a course at the German Administration Academy. He was assistant clerk for price checking at the State Office for Economics of Thuringia , head of the contingent office and later head of the material supply department at the Ministry of Economics of Thuringia. From January 1, 1950 he was head of the Thuringian State Statistical Office. From March 1, 1951 to May 1955, Scholz acted as head of the Central Statistical Office at the State Planning Commission. He studied economics and graduated in 1955 with a degree in economics. Later he was department head in the council of the city district Berlin-Pankow and head of the industrial administration of mechanical engineering at the magistrate of Berlin .

From 1958 Scholz was plant manager at VEB Pipes and Tanks in Berlin-Lichtenberg and then from 1959 to 1971 division manager at VEB Niles Berlin. Scholz tragically died at the age of 70.

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 306.
  • 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. 805.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV of April 10, 1951 in BArch - DC 20-I / 3/50.
  2. ↑ Obituaries in New Germany , July 7, 1977, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1977