Rudolph Schulze
Rudolph Schulze (* 18th November 1918 in Chemnitz , † 26. November 1996 in Zepernick ) was a politician of the GDR - block party CDU . He was Minister of Post and Telecommunications .
Life
As the son of a pharmacist, Schulze completed an apprenticeship as a druggist after attending grammar school from 1934 to 1937 and worked as a druggist in Chemnitz until 1939. Drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service in 1939, he was a non-commissioned officer in a medical company until 1945 and a Soviet prisoner of war until 1948 .
In 1948 he joined the (Eastern) CDU , initially as an administrative employee and briefly in 1950 as mayor in Schwarzenberg . From 1950 to 1951 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 1950 to 1952 Minister for Trade and Supply of the State of Saxony , then until 1955 Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Leipzig District and until 1958 President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the GDR.
In 1954 Schulze became a member of the Political Committee and then a member of the Presidium of the CDU main board. From 1958 to 1990 he was a member of the People's Chamber . From 1958 to 1963 he worked as general director of intercontrol Berlin and was then until 1989 as the successor to Friedrich Burmeister Minister for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR. From 1969 to 1989 he was President of the GDR-Africa Friendship Society and a member of the Presidium of the League for Friendship of Nations . From December 1971 to November 1989 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers .
Schulze was buried on December 3, 1996 in Zepernick .
Awards in the GDR
- 1956 and 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1963 Gold Otto Nuschke Decoration
- 1965 Order Banner of Labor
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1978 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1983 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1988 Honorary Title Hero of Labor
- In November 1978 he was also awarded the GDR television prize in gold.
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Schulze, Rudolph . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 310.
Web links
- Rudolph Schulze in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
Friedrich Burmeister (CDU, 1949–1963) | Rudolph Schulze (CDU, 1963–1989) | Klaus Wolf (CDU, 1989–1990) | Emil Schnell (SPD, 1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schulze, Rudolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MdV, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Minister for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1996 |
| Place of death | Zepernick |