Renate Credo

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Renate Credo (born October 14, 1920 in Berlin-Spandau ; † August 28, 1986 ) was a German chemist and economic functionary in the GDR . From 1963 to 1971 she was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Renate Credo became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 and of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in 1946 . After studying chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a degree in chemistry , she worked as a consultant in the state government of Thuringia and in 1952 as a lecturer at the workers and farmers faculty in Jena . She was then employed as plant manager at the Grünau chemical works . From 1959 to 1965 she was director of VEB Kali-Chemie Berlin. On February 27, 1962, she was appointed to the 23-member women's commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, of which she was a member until June 1971. From January 1963 (6th Party Congress) to June 1971 (8th Party Congress) she was a member of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1965 to 1971 she was director of the VEB Fotochemische Werke Berlin-Köpenick . Then she was department head in the Central Office for the Chemical Industry and in the Central Information Institute of the Chemical Industry in East Berlin.

Renate Credo died at the age of 65 and was buried in the Berlin-Adlershof cemetery.

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR . 2nd edition, Dietz Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 44.
  • Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED. History organization politics. A manual . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 927.
  • Gunilla Budde : women of intelligence. Academics in the GDR from 1945 to 1975 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-535-35143-7 , pp. 82 and 366 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minutes of the Politburo meeting of February 27, 1962, p. 349 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/2/817 (accessed on October 18, 2018).
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of September 11, 1986, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Credo, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and economic functionary in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1986