Werner Heynisch

Werner Heynisch (born February 27, 1924 in Plauen , Vogtland , † April 5, 1977 ) was President of the GDR Building Academy .

Life

Second World War, degree in engineering and water polo player

Heynisch, son of a milk merchant and locksmith, completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith between 1938 and 1940 after attending elementary school and thus acquired the secondary school leaving certificate in a distance learning course . After attending the engineering school in Zwickau from 1941 to 1942, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1942 during the Second World War and in 1943 for military service in the Wehrmacht , where he was last promoted to sergeant . After his capture, he was a US prisoner of war between April and May 1945 .

He then worked from 1945 to 1946 as a technician in the waterway construction office in Plauen and also earned his Abitur at the local high school for economics. In 1946 he first joined the SPD and, after the union of the SPD and KPD, the SED as a member. In 1946 he began studying structural engineering at the Technical University of Dresden , which he graduated in 1951 with a degree in engineering.

In addition to his studies and career Heynisch was an active water polo player who for the club Börde Magdeburg (later BSG building Börde Magdeburg or SC Magdeburg construction ) six times East German water polo champion was. At the same time he became a member of the executive committee of the German Swimming Association in 1953 .

Engineer and President of the Building Academy of the GDR

After completing his studies, he first became an engineer and, in 1957, technical director of the VEB Bau-Union Magdeburg. After he was also honorary city councilor for construction in Magdeburg from 1957 to 1960 , he acted as technical director in civil engineering in Brandenburg from 1960 to 1963 and during this time was largely responsible for construction measures such as the Elbe swimming hall in Magdeburg, the Rheinsberg nuclear power plant (KKR), the Cement works in Bernburg (Saale) , the concrete sleeper works in Güsen and the Hans-Renner-Schanze in Oberhof .

In 1961 Heynisch became a member of the College of the Ministry of Construction and a member of the Presidium of the Building Academy of the GDR, of which he became Vice President and Head of the Institute for Industrial and Civil Engineering in 1962. He then acted between 1963 and 1965 as deputy chairman for investments and construction of the State Planning Commission (SPK). on the VI. At the SED party congress from January 15 to 21, 1963, he was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee.

He then became president of the GDR Building Academy in 1965 and held this position until his death in 1977. He became the successor to Gerhard Kosel , who lost this office after a conflict with the SED leadership. He was also elected a board member of the Research Council of the GDR in 1966 and a member of the Central Committee at the Seventh Party Congress of the SED from April 17 to 22, 1967 . He belonged to the Central Committee of the SED until the IX. Congress from May 18-22, 1976.

Heynisch, who was awarded the National Prize of the GDR 2nd class for science and technology in 1968 "for his extraordinary achievements in the theoretical and structural further development of reinforced concrete as well as in the development and comprehensive implementation of rational construction methods and building technologies" , was also head of the permanent forecast group in 1969 Building at the Council of Ministers of the GDR . In 1974 he was also awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Web links

• Elke Reuter :  Heynisch, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .