Rudolf Eichhorn (politician, 1921)

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Rudolf Eichhorn (born April 23, 1921 in Dresden ) is a former German politician ( CDU ) and member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Rudolf Eichhorn was the son of a builder. After attending primary and secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1938. In 1939 he switched to the state school for civil engineering in his hometown and graduated in 1944 as an engineer for structural engineering. He was then called up for military service and was also taken prisoner. Eichhorn returned to Dresden in 1946 and worked as a civil engineer until 1956. He then moved to the Dresden District Council .

politics

In 1939 Eichhorn became a member of the NSDAP . After his return from captivity, he became a member of the CDU in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 . He later represented this as a member of the Dresden District Assembly. This went hand in hand with his function as deputy chairman of the Dresden District Council, which he held from 1956 to 1964. From 1958 to 1964 Eichhorn was also district building director. At the same time he represented his party as a member of the People's Chamber from 1958 to 1963. At the 10th party congress of the CDU in June 1960, he and Erich Wächter were elected to the CDU's central revision commission. From 1965 to 1970 he was Deputy Minister for Construction of the GDR. He was then director of the German Building Exhibition in Dresden and 1st deputy director of the Institute for Building Information. From 1968 he was a member of the main board of the CDU.

Eichhorn's NSDAP membership was not mentioned in official reports during GDR times.

Honors

literature

  • Presidium of the People's Chamber. Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic: 3rd electoral period , Berlin 1959, pp. 265f.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , pp. 177f.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , p. 57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Investigative Committee of Freedom Jurists (ed.): Former National Socialists in Pankow's Services , Berlin-Zehlendorf, [1960], p. 18.
  2. ^ Main board constituted . In: Neue Zeit , Sun. June 26, 1960, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Union friends awarded , In: Neue Zeit , October 10, 1959, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1981, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Eichhorn, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU) and member of the People's Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden