Peter Pollack

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Peter Pollack (born August 30, 1930 in Dresden ; † October 20, 2017 ) was Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry in the GDR from April to August 1990 .

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Pollack graduated from high school in 1949 and worked as an agricultural assistant until 1952. From 1952 to 1955 he studied agriculture at the University of Halle-Wittenberg , which he completed in 1955 as a qualified farmer. From 1956 to 1963 Pollack was a research assistant at the University of Halle at the Institute for Forage Production and Cultivation Technology. In 1963 he was at the university resounds with the work "Studies on the yield, about the ingredients of Aufwuchs and on the development of the plant stand on specific areas of grassland in the Altmark Wipe depending on various nutrient gifts" Dr. agr. PhD.

Pollack worked as a research assistant at the Altmärkische Wische research center in Falkenberg from 1963 to 1968, and from 1969 to 1990 as director of the scientific center for the agricultural preparation of amelioration for the Magdeburg district .

On April 12, 1990, the non-party Peter Pollack became Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR in the de Maizière government at the suggestion of the SPD . On August 16, 1990, he left the government together with the SPD ministers. From 1991 to 1993 he worked as a department head in the Office for Agriculture and Land Management in Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1993 he became the special representative of the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry in Saxony-Anhalt. He held this position until 1996, when he retired.

Since 1998 Peter Pollack has been the community representative of the Havelland community Paulinenaue for the SPD.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Peter Pollack: Obituary notice . ( maztrauer.de [accessed October 29, 2017]).
  2. Current chronicle of the community Paulinenaue since 1999 ( Memento from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )