Rudi Rubbel

Rudi Rubbel (born January 23, 1920 in Königsberg ; † December 2, 1971 ) was a co-founder of the innovator movement in the GDR industry, a trade unionist ( FDGB ), economic politician ( SED ) and director of the combine .

Life

Scratch, son of a working class family, attended from 1926 to 1936, the folk and middle school and then worked as a machine operator to 1941st He made from 1941 military service in the Navy and became 1944 as a lance corporal in French captivity . In 1946 he returned to Germany.

From 1946 to 1948 he was a track construction worker at the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden and then from 1948 to 1952 department head in the transformer and x-ray works in Dresden . Rubbel gave the impetus for the innovator movement in the GDR industry with the "Plan of Rationalisers and Inventors" that he and Siegfried Naumann had developed. In 1951 he became a member of the SED.

From 1953 to 1960 he acted as a sector manager in the FDGB federal executive board, as department head of economics and chairman of the Neuereraktivs. He also studied from 1956 to 1959 at the engineering school in Berlin-Lichtenberg and then from 1959 to 1961 at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a degree in economics. From 1960 to 1963 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB. From 1961 to 1963 he was labor director and works director of VEB Elektrokohle Berlin-Lichtenberg and then 1963/1964 Secretary for Economics of the SED district management in Berlin. From 1963 to 1967 he was also a member of the Berlin city council .

From 1964 to 1968 he was operations director in the VEB Berliner Glühlampenwerk, from 1969 to 1970 director of the VEB NARVA Berlin and from 1970 director of the VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin.

Rubbel died on December 2, 1971 at the age of 51 as a result of a traffic accident.

Works

• The importance of the rationalizer and inventor movement . Grandstand, Berlin 1953.
• Socialist Reconstruction and Seven Year Plan Fund . Deutscher Zentralverlag, Berlin 1960.
• (together with Horst Lehmann): Trade unions and the socialist transformation of agriculture. How can the trade unions participate in the socialist development of agriculture? Grandstand, Berlin 1960.
• Experience in stabilizing and developing large economic entities . Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management at the Central Committee of the SED, Berlin 1971.

Important articles

• The brigades have greater rights . In: Tribüne , April 27, 1960, p. 3.
• The socialist leader - representative of the working class . In: Einheit , Vol. 26 (1971), Heft 12, pp. 1359-1365.

Awards

• National Prize III. Class (together with Siegfried Naumann, 1952)
• Hero of work

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 739.
• Hagen Schwärzel:  Rubbel, Rudi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. 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. 210 f .