Richard Kunisch

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Richard Kunisch (also Georg Kunisch) (born May 16, 1907 in Neisse , Upper Silesia , † after 1970) was a German politician ( CDU ) and diplomat . He was finance minister of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , a member of the regional chamber of the GDR and consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bombay .

Life

Kunisch studied law at the universities of Jena, Breslau and Berlin from 1927 to 1931 and passed the major state examination in 1934 . In 1936 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He worked as a magistrate and consistorial councilor of the consistory of the Evangelical Church of Silesia in Wroclaw . During the Second World War he had to do military service and was taken prisoner of war.

After his release he found a new home in Halle (Saale) and became a member of the CDU. On April 1, 1946, he was hired as presidential councilor and head of the church department at the then provincial administration of Saxony. After the reorganization of the provincial administration into the state administration, he was appointed ministerial director on January 1, 1947 and appointed head of the presidential chancellery of the state government of Saxony-Anhalt.

On October 10, 1949, Kunisch was elected by the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt as a member of the newly formed GDR regional chamber and chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the regional chamber. When the government of Saxony-Anhalt was reorganized on October 28, 1949, Kunisch was nominated as finance minister by the CDU state executive and elected by the state parliament on the proposal of the new prime minister and previous finance minister Werner Bruschke .

Kunisch was treasurer in the CDU state executive committee for Saxony-Anhalt. From November 14, 1949 he was a member of the newly created revision commission of the CDU with Josef Rambo , Wilhelm Bachem and Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans .

On February 9, 1950, the Information Office announced Kunisch's flight to West Berlin on February 4, 1950, and referred to him as an American agent and accomplice of Leo Herwegen and Willi Brundert . Thereupon, on February 10, 1950, the 8th session of the regional chamber agreed to the request of the CDU parliamentary group to delete the regional chamber mandates of MPs Gerhard Rohner and Kunisch. After a week in West Berlin, he was flown to Frankfurt am Main with his wife and three daughters and sent to the Gießen emergency reception center.

In the Federal Republic of Germany he soon became a member of the West German CDU and head of division in the Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (BMG) under Jakob Kaiser with the rank of senior government councilor . Later he was Ministerialrat in the BMG. He moved to the Foreign Office, where he was Legation Councilor First Class and until 1965 head of Section 602 “Church Relations with Foreign Countries, Charitable Cultural Tasks and Medical Matters.” From 1965 to 1969 he was head of the General Consulate of the FRG in Bombay . Shortly after the change of government in Bonn in 1969, Federal Foreign Minister Walter Scheel sent him into early retirement with 24 other senior citizens of the diplomatic service.

Awards

literature

  • Who is who? The German Who is Who, published by Walter Habel, arani Verlags-GmbH, Berlin 1970, p. 716.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 449 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet reshuffle in Saxony-Anhalt . In: Neue Zeit , October 29, 1949, p. 1.
  2. ^ New ministers in Saxony-Anhalt . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 29, 1949, p. 2.
  3. 4th annual meeting of the CDU . In: Neue Zeit, November 15, 1949, p. 4.
  4. ^ American agent recalled . In: Berliner Zeitung, February 10, 1950, p. 2.
  5. Yesterday a minister, today a refugee . In: Neue Zeit, February 18, 1950, p. 2.
  6. The Königsteiner Kreis in the 1950s and 1960s . In: Federal Center for Political Education.
  7. See Friedrich book .