Rudolf Murgott

Rudolf Murgott (born August 21, 1922 in Bobrek-Karf , district of Beuthen , † October 2, 1980 ) was a German politician ( SED ) and foreign trade official. From 1968 to 1980 he was President of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR.

Life

Murgott, the son of a mountain secretary, attended elementary school and grammar school in Beuthen and in 1939/40 the commercial college in Opole . In 1940/41 he was a construction trainee and in 1941/42 studied for a semester at the State Building School in Bytom. In 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and in 1944 was taken prisoner by the Soviets . There he attended the Antifa Central School in Riga .

In 1949 he returned to Germany in the Soviet Zone . From 1950 he was group leader in the personnel and training department of the Brandenburg regional management of the trade organization (HO) in Potsdam . In 1950 he became a member of the SED.

Between 1950 and 1952 he studied foreign trade economics at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam. He completed his studies with a degree in economics. From 1952 to 1959 he was an instructor in the Trade and Transport Department of the Central Committee of the SED . In 1959/60 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow to study social sciences. He was then deputy sector manager from 1960 to 1963, and from 1964 to 1968 deputy head of the trade, supply and foreign trade department of the Central Committee of the SED. From October 23, 1968 until his death he was President of the Chamber for Foreign Trade (successor to Hans Bahr ). Since 1976 he has also been a member of the GDR – USA Economic Committee.

Fonts

• Diverse funding for foreign trade relations in the GDR . In: Sozialistische Außenwirtschaft XXII, Heft 10 (1972), pp. 33-36.

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the National People's Army (1965)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1972)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 221.
• 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. 577.
• Elke Reuter:  Murgott, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of October 24, 1968.