Werner Schmieder
Werner Schmieder (born November 11, 1926 in Possendorf ) is a former German politician ( SED ). From 1980 to 1981 he was a member of the GDR Council of Ministers (1976–1981) and Minister of Finance of the GDR .
Life
Born as the son of a working-class family in Possendorf, Freital district, he attended elementary school and trained as a financial economist. On April 20, 1944, at the age of 17, he became a member of the NSDAP . In the same year he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and soon after was taken prisoner by the Soviets .
Schmieder returned to the Soviet occupation zone in Germany in 1948 , joined the German People's Police and the SED. From 1949 to 1955 he worked as an auditor at the Deutsche Investitionsbank Dresden. In 1953 he graduated as a financial economist from the college for finance in Gotha . From 1955 to 1962 worked at the Deutsche Investitionsbank Cottbus as district director. From 1954 to 1959 he qualified as a graduate economist in distance learning at the Berlin-Karlshorst School of Economics . From 1962 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the council of the Cottbus district and chairman of the district planning commission . At the same time he was a member of the district assembly as well as a member of the SED district leadership Cottbus and its secretariat. At the Central Institute for Socialist Economic Management he was awarded a Dr. rer. oec. PhD. On February 1, 1967, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance and in 1974 State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance of the GDR (successor to Horst Kaminsky ). In 1969, he successfully completed his studies as an engineering economist at the engineering school for construction and road engineering . After Siegfried Böhm's death , he was Minister of Finance of the GDR from June 1980 to April 1981. As Minister of Finance , he was also a member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers . Because of his criticism of Erich Honecker , he had to resign after a short time in April 1981. In 1990 he was rehabilitated by the PDS Arbitration Commission.
Awards
- 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1969 in silver
- 1976 Order Banner of Labor
literature
- Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 249.
- Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 357.
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
- Andreas Herbst : Schmieder, Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of December 30, 1964
- ^ New Germany of June 5, 1980
- ^ New Times of October 6, 1965
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmieder, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Possendorf |