Rudolf Rost
Rudolf Rost (born January 2, 1921 in Schmölln ; † February 24, 1981 ) was a German politician ( SED ).
Life
Rost was the son of a worker and did military service as a private in a pioneer unit of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets and attended an antifa school there .
He first joined the KPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED a year later. He was initially district administrator in Altenburg and Sonneberg . From 1950 he was an employee and later deputy head of the state and legal affairs department of the Central Committee of the SED , most recently as deputy to Klaus Sorgenicht . From 1962 to 1963 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly "Sozialistische Demokratie" (Socialist Democracy). In November 1963 he succeeded Anton Plenikowski as State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Council of Ministers of the GDR . He held this office until 1975. After successfully completing a doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. In 1975 he was appointed professor and director of the Institute for State and Legal Theory at ASR Potsdam .
Rost died at the age of 60 and was buried in the municipal cemetery III in Berlin-Pankow .
Awards
- 1964 and 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1980 Order Banner of Labor Level I
literature
- Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 236.
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo handbook. Volume 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , pp. 281-282.
- Andreas Herbst: Rost, Rudolf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thanks to tried and tested state officials. In: New Germany . November 17, 1963, p. 2.
- ↑ New Germany. Obituary notice. March 3, 1981, p. 8.
Sonneberg district: Rudolf von Ziller (1863–1874) | Gustav Julius Berlet (1874–1878) | Karl Baumbach (1878–1890) | Hermann Götting (1890–1901) | Karl Marr (1901–1912) | Arnold Creutzburg (1913–1922) | Karl Knauer (1922–1924) | Max Hartung (1925–1945) | Hans Weinland (1945–1948) | Theo Gundermann (1948–1950) | Rudolf Rost (1950–1951) | Olga Brückner (1951–1952)
Sonneberg district: Olga Brückner (1952–1960) | Otto Sollmann (1960–1969) | Karl Greiner (1969–1979) | Harry Müller (1979–1983) | Gerhard Stier (1983–1989) | Gunter Scheler (1989–1990) | Detlef Weise (1990–1994)
District of Sonneberg: Reiner Stuhlmann (1994–2006) | Christine Zitzmann (2006–2018) | Hans-Peter Schmitz (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rust, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), head of the office of the Council of Ministers of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmoelln |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1981 |