Werner Polze

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Werner Polze (born March 26, 1931 in Altenburg ; † February 18, 2019 ) was a German banker . From 1978 to 1990 he was President of the German Foreign Trade Bank of the GDR .

Life

Polze passed his Abitur at Altenburger Gymnasium in 1949, passed the interpreting test for English at the Volkshochschule Altenburg in the same year and completed a bank apprenticeship in the Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Altenburg from 1949 to 1951 with a qualification as a banker. He became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), was employed in the banking system of the GDR , received his doctorate and in 1989 he was appointed professor.

In August 1969, Polze succeeded Erich Renneisen as Vice President of the German Foreign Trade Bank (DABA). In December 1977 the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED decided to appoint him as President of DABA (successor to Helmut Dietrich ).

On July 1, 1983, in Munich , he signed with the President of the Bayerische Landesbank Ludwig Huber the loan agreement negotiated by Franz Josef Strauss , Günter Mittag and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski for one billion DM to the GDR.

Polze died at the age of 87 and was buried in the Liesenstrasse 7 cemetery in Berlin .

Awards

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR . 4th edition, Dietz Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 245.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11130-4 , p. 660 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of March 30, 2019, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Polze, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and President of the German Foreign Trade Bank
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2019