Werner Skowron

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Werner H. Skowron (born October 30, 1943 in Rückers , Glatz district ; † March 18, 2016 in Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf , Märkisch-Oderland district ) was a German politician ( CDU ). In 1990 he was the acting Minister of Finance in the GDR .

Life

Skowron trained as a bank clerk at the Sparkasse Gotha . After attending the technical college for economics in Gotha, he passed the examination as an economist and started in 1962 at the Kreissparkasse Lübben. He completed basic military service in the National People's Army and was released as a private. After working in the branch of the German Central Bank in Lübben , he moved to the central bank's head office in Berlin in 1966, where he temporarily worked as an auditor for the industrial and commercial bank. In 1975 he graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin with a degree in economics .

Skowron had been a member of the CDU block party since 1980, a member of the Cottbus district assembly from 1980 to 1985, and a member of the Berlin-Friedrichshain district assembly from 1989 to 1990 . From 1987 to January 1990 he was the district councilor for finances and prices in Berlin-Friedrichshain. From June 1990 he acted as State Secretary and, after Walter Romberg's dismissal on August 15, 1990, until German reunification, he was acting Minister of Finance in the GDR. During the political change , in December 1989, he became a member of the presidium of the CDU and its treasurer . He was then a member of the German Bundestag from December 20, 1990 to 1994 . From 1995 Skowron worked as head of division in the Federal Ministry of Finance and was therefore responsible, among other things, for privatization advice in Eastern Europe. Most recently, until his retirement in 2008, he headed the department responsible for the processing of companies at the Federal Agency for Unification-related Special Tasks .

Skowron died at the age of 72 and was buried in the Strausberg Forest Cemetery.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Stolen money , Der Spiegel 52/2001 of December 22, 2001.
  2. ^ Obituary notice in the Märkische Oderzeitung from April 9, 2016 (accessed April 25, 2016).
  3. ^ Obituary notice in the Märkische Oderzeitung from April 23, 2016 (accessed on April 25, 2016).