Paul Kraszon

Paul Kraszon (born March 3, 1918 in Ruda, Ratibor district , Upper Silesia ) is a former functionary of the SED in the GDR .

Life

Kraszon, son of a miner , also worked as a miner and later as a steiger in Upper Silesia after attending primary school and vocational school . During the Second World War he did his military service in the Wehrmacht as a fireworker .

After the end of the war, he joined the SED as a member in 1946 and worked as a plant manager at the VEB Braunkohlenwerk Pfännerhall in Braunsbedra , before he was Secretary for Agriculture of the SED district management in Chemnitz between August 1952 and February 1953 .

In February 1953, Kraszon succeeded Eberhard Arlt as head of the basic industry department of the Central Committee of the SED . In June 1953 he was punished by a party, and in April 1954 he handed over this office to Berthold Handwerker . He himself then became plant manager at VEB Steinkohlenwerk Martin Hoop in Zwickau and was also a member of the SED city management in Zwickau.

Awards

1958 Honorary title " Honored Miner of the German Democratic Republic "

Web links

Andreas Herbst , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Kraszon, Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 287 .

Individual evidence

^ District management Karl-Marx-Stadt of the SED (1952 - 1990)
↑ Minutes No. 37/53 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on June 11, 1953 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/3/388.
^ Department of Basic Industry in the Central Committee of the SED (accessed on August 5, 2017).
↑ Honor roll of the Merited Miners . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 6, 1958, p. 5.

personal data
SURNAME	Kraszon, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ruda, Ratibor district , Upper Silesia

[1] District management Karl-Marx-Stadt of the SED (1952 - 1990)

[2] Minutes No. 37/53 of the meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED on June 11, 1953 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/3/388.

[3] Department of Basic Industry in the Central Committee of the SED (accessed on August 5, 2017).

[4] Honor roll of the Merited Miners . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 6, 1958, p. 5.