Ministry of Glass and Ceramics Industry

The Ministry for the Glass and Ceramics Industry of the GDR ( MfGuK ) was founded on January 1, 1972 and took on tasks for the glass and fine ceramics industry that had previously been carried out by the Ministry of Light Industry , the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Ore Mining, among others , Metallurgy and Potash , the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics and the Ministry of Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering . The central school of the Ministry for the Glass and Ceramics Industry of the GDR was located in the small Saxon town of Neusalza-Spremberg / Oberlausitz, district of Neuspremberg , and was headed by Gunther Leupolt as director from 1972 to 1988.

In November 1989 the MfGuK was dissolved and its tasks were transferred to the reorganized Ministry of Light Industry.

Subordinate combines

VEB Flachglaskombinat in Torgau 1974

The following centrally managed combines were subordinate to the MfGuK :

• VEB Flachglaskombinat, Torgau
• VEB Kombinat Feinkeramik , Kahla
• VEB Kombinat Lausitzer Glas, Weißwasser
• VEB Kombinat Technical Glass , Ilmenau
• VEB Kombinat Packaging, Leipzig
• VEB “Thuringia” combine for glass and ceramic machine construction , Sonneberg
• VEB State Porcelain Manufactory , Meißen
• VEB Kombinat container and packaging glass, Bernsdorf
• VEB Kombinat Zellstoff und Papier , Heidenau

minister

• 1972–1983: Werner Greiner-Petter ( SED )
• 1983–1989: Karl Grünheid (SED)

Deputy Minister

• 1972–1984: Heinrich Meier (NDPD)
• 1984–1989: Gunter Halm (NDPD)

literature

• Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): GDR manual . 3rd and exp. Ed. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1984, p. 903.
• Andreas Herbst , Winfried Ranke and Jürgen Winkler (eds.): This is how the GDR worked . Volume 2: Lexicon of Organizations and Institutions . Reinbek near Hamburg, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1994, p. 671f.