Pyotr Fadeevich Lomako

Pyotr Fadejewitsch Lomako ( Russian Пётр Фадеевич Ломако * June 29 ^jul. / 12. July  1904 ^greg. In Temryuk , Kuban Oblast , Russian Empire , † 27 May 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet economists and politicians of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), who was, among other things, People's Commissar from 1940 to 1948 and from 1950 to 1953, 1954 to 1957 and between 1965 and 1986 Minister of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy. In the meantime he acted from 1962 to 1965 as chairman of the State Planning Commission ( Gosplan ) and deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR . Lomako was responsible for coordinating a reformist economic policy and, according to western analysts, was dismissed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1965 in order to weaken the power of Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin and reintroduce economic conservatism.

Life

Degree, engineer and people's commissar

Pyotr Fadejewitsch Lomako, the son of small farmers, became a member of the communist youth organization Komsomol in 1923 and attended the workers' faculty in Krasnodar between 1924 and 1927 . During his studies, he also became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1925 and initially studied at the Plekhanov Institute for National Economy between 1927 and 1932 . He then began further studies in 1930 at the Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold in Moscow , which he completed in 1932. After completing his studies, he was successively foreman, master, workshop manager and finally assistant to the chief engineer of a factory in Leningrad between 1932 and 1937 , before he was director of a non-ferrous metallurgy factory in Ivanovo Oblast from 1937 to 1939 .

In 1939 Lomako became Deputy People's Commissar for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and, on July 9, 1941, succeeded Alexander Samokhvalov as People's Commissar for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy in the Council of People's Commissars , which was then headed by Vyacheslav Molotov , and retained this position under the chairmanship of Josef Stalin . until the dissolution of this People's Commissariat on June 29, 1948. During the Second World War he was responsible for overseeing the evacuation of Soviet industry to the mountainous region of the Urals and played an important role in maintaining it after the outbreak of the German-Soviet War in 1941 of the Soviet industry. In 1946 he became a deputy for the first time in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , to which he initially belonged until 1950.

Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Gosplan

After Pyotr Fadejewitsch Lomako was only Deputy Minister for the Iron and Steel Industry between 1948 and 1950, he was again Minister for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy in the Council of Ministers of the USSR on December 28, 1950 in the second Stalin government and held this ministerial office until March 6, 1953. He was on the XIX. CPSU party congress (October 5 to 14, 1952) candidate of the Central Committee (ZK) and held this party function until the XXI. Congress (January 27 to February 5, 1959). Between 1953 and 1954 he served again as Vice Minister for the Iron and Steel Industry. On February 8, 1954, he again took over the post of Minister for Non-Ferrous Metallurgy in the Malenkov I government and retained this position in the Malenkov II government and the Bulganin government until May 10, 1957. In 1954, he was again deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and belonged to it until 1989.

After Lomako left the Council of Ministers of the USSR on May 10, 1957, he served as chairman of the National Economic Council (Sownarchos) in Krasnoyarsk between 1957 and 1961 . On the XXII. At the party congress (October 17 to 31, 1961) he became a member of the CPSU Central Committee for the first time and belonged to this body until the XXV. CPSU party conference (February 24 to March 5, 1976). In addition, between 1961 and 1962 he was Vice President of the Office of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

On November 10, 1962 Pyotr Fadejewitsch Lomako became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the Khrushchev II government and, two weeks later, on November 24, 1962, replaced Wenjamin Emanuilowitsch Dymschitz as Chairman of the State Planning Commission ( Gosplan ) . He also held these two offices in the Council of Ministers in the subsequent Kosygin I government until October 2, 1965. At the time Nikita Khrushchev switched to Leonid Brezhnev, he was largely responsible for coordinating the Soviet economy in times of economic uncertainty. As Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, he was under the direct influence of Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin , whose reformist course he supported. On October 2, 1965, he was dismissed from the perspective of Western analysts from Brezhnev as chairman of the State Planning Commission and deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in order to weaken the power of Prime Minister Kosygin and reintroduce economic conservatism. He then took over on October 2, 1965 again the function as Minister of Nonferrous Metallurgy of Ministers of the USSR and has held this ministerial office more than twenty years in the government Kosygin II , government Kosygin III , Government Kosygin IV , government Kosygin V , government Tikhonov I , Tikhonov II government and the Ryschkow I government until November 2, 1986, whereupon Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Durasow succeeded him.

honors and awards

Lomako has received several awards for his work and has won both the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1974) and seven times the Order of Lenin , the Order of the October Revolution , twice the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , the Order of Red Star , the jubilee medal "In Memory on the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ” , the medal“ For the Defense of Moscow ” , the medal“ 20. Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 ” , the medal“ 30. Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 ” , the medal“ For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 ” and the medal“ 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ” .

Web links

• Entry in Prabook
• Entry in Rulers

Individual evidence

1. ^ Council of People's Commissars under Molotov
2. ^ Council of People's Commissars under Stalin
3. ^ Council of People's Commissars under Stalin II
4. ^ Government of Malenkov I
5. ^ Government of Malenkov II
6. ^ Government of Bulganin
7. ^ Government of Khrushchev II
8. ^ Soviet Union: State Planning Committee (Gosplan): Chairmen (Rulers)
9. ^ Government of Kosygin I
10. ^ Government of Kosygin II
11. ^ Government of Kosygin III
12. ^ Government of Kosygin IV
13. ^ Government of Kosygin V
14. ^ Government of Tikhonov I
15. ^ Government of Tikhonov II
16. ^ Government of Ryzhkov I