Werner Lorenz (politician)

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Werner Lorenz (born March 4, 1925 in Dittersdorf , Chemnitz district ) is a former German politician ( SED ). He was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR and for over 30 years State Secretary in the Ministry of Popular Education .

Life

The son of a self-employed master painter completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1939 to 1941 after attending primary school. From 1941 to 1942 he worked as a commercial clerk in a stocking factory in Einsiedel and from November 1942 to February 1943 as a worker in the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in Liebau. He then did military service in the Wehrmacht and in May 1945 was taken prisoner by the British as a corporal in Bergen . During his captivity, which he spent in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England until 1946, he worked as a transport worker and gardener.

In December 1946 he returned to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation , joined the SED in January 1947 and received training as a new teacher . He then worked as a teacher and headmaster in Einsiedel , Eibenberg and Annaberg . In 1947 he joined the FDGB , in 1948 the FDJ , in 1949 the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) and in 1950 the Kulturbund of the GDR . From September 1950 to August 1951 he was the deputy district school councilor of the Annaberg district and from September 1951 to January 1954 the district school councilor of the Marienberg district . From February 1954 to December 1954 he served as the district school council and head of the public education department at the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . In December 1954 he succeeded Josef Zimmering as deputy chairman of the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district and head of the department for popular education and culture. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district assembly and from May 1955 to May 1958 Secretary for Culture of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt.

From June 1, 1958 to November 1989, he was State Secretary and First Deputy Minister for National Education in the GDR under Fritz Lange , Alfred Lemmnitz and Margot Honecker (successor to Hans-Joachim Laabs ) for 31 years . At the same time he was a member of the People's Chamber from November 1958 to December 1989. From 1958 to 1967 he belonged to the parliamentary group of the SED and from 1967 to 1989 to the parliamentary group of the Kulturbund. On December 1, 1989, at the 13th session of the People's Chamber, his mandate was revoked at the request of the parliamentary group of the Kulturbund.

From September 1967 to 1968 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow. In June 1971 he became a candidate and in April 1986 a member of the Central Committee of the SED (until December 1989). Lorenz was President of the "Friendship Committee GDR-Austria" of the League for Friendship between Nations and from 1967 chairman of the "Parliamentary Friendship Group GDR-Austria" in the People's Chamber.

Awards

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 9th electoral period, Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 442.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 492.
  • Mario Niemann, Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 318f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Zeit , December 2, 1989, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Lorenz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Dittersdorf , Chemnitz district