Stephan Supranowitz

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Stephan Supranowitz (born January 7, 1933 ) is a German lawyer and former politician ( SED ). He was State Secretary , Deputy Minister and Head of the Office for Legal Protection of Property in the GDR .

Life

Supranowitz, son of a worker, joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). After studying law, he became a lawyer and later at the Humboldt University in Berlin as a Dr. jur. PhD. From 1964 he was deputy head of the State Contracting Court in Berlin and from 1966 he was contract superior and head of the Industry Department at the Central State Contracting Court.

From 1967 to 1970 he was Deputy State Secretary and from 1970 to 1972 State Secretary for Constitutional and Commercial Law at the GDR Council of Ministers . In September 1972 the State Secretariat was dissolved and its task was transferred to the Ministry of Justice . From September 1972 to May 1981 served as deputy Supranowitz Minister for Justice and the main departments headed III (legislation) and IV (Business Law) and the East German delegation in the RGW consulting Legal Affairs. From June 1981 he was deputy head and from June 1982 to September 1990 head of the Office for Legal Protection of Property in the GDR (successor to Hermann Kleyer ).

Supranowitz was involved in the negotiation of the two state treaties between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany , initially under the direction of Walter Romberg , and from August 1990 under Günther Krause . After the de Maizière government took office in May 1990, he joined Thomas de Maizière and Günther Krause in the six-person working group at the Prime Minister's Office that drafted the first draft law for a new version of the “Law on the Privatization and Reorganization of Nationally Owned Assets” (Treuhandgesetz) .

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 317.

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Federal Foundation for Work-Up (accessed on June 27, 2017).