Otto Reinhold (economist)
Otto Reinhold (born December 8, 1925 in Altrohlau , Czechoslovakia ; † April 27, 2016 ) was a German economist . In the service of the SED he was decisively responsible for the ideological orientation of the GDR .
Life
Reinhold was born the son of a porcelain painter and completed an apprenticeship as a typewriter mechanic . The family was from Czechoslovakia expelled . Reinhold became a member of the KPD in 1945 and with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 a member of the SED. From 1946 to 1950 he studied economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Berlin University . After graduating with a degree in economics, he was promoted to Dr. rer. oec. doctorate and worked as a senior assistant at the economics faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Reinhold was also editor of the SED magazine Einheit from 1950 to 1953 . In 1954/55 he was head of the chair for political economy at the party college of the SED . In 1956 Reinhold began to work for the central committee of the SED , first as deputy head of the department agitation and propaganda , then as deputy director of the Institute for Social Sciences (IfG) and director from 1962. In 1967 Reinhold became a member of the SED central committee. When the IfG was transformed into an academy, Reinhold's official title changed in 1976. He became rector , an office that he held until the fall of the Berlin Wall . On November 25, 1989, he resigned as rector.
The publication Imperialism Today , co-edited by Reinhold, called for a gradual “constructive transformation” of capitalist societies, which meant a departure from the revolutionary doctrine.
He was head of the SED delegation which, together with representatives of the SPD, prepared the paper The Controversy of Ideologies and Common Security in 1987 .
Reinhold was a permanent guest on the GDR television program Das Professorenkollegium meets .
Awards
- 1959 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1965 National Prize III. class
- 1970 National Prize 1st class (as a collective)
- 1970 Labor banner
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1982 Labor banner
- 1985 Karl Marx Order
literature
- Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Reinhold, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Reinhold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Daniel Friedrich Sturm : When the SPD and SED chatted about reforms. Contemporary history. August 26, 2007, accessed September 10, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR: Revolution on installments - Der Spiegel 36/1966
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinhold, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist, author and SED functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alt Rohlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 2016 |