Willi-Peter Konzok

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Willi-Peter Konzok (1969)

Willi-Peter Konzok (born June 29, 1902 in Breslau ; † July 26, 1984 ) was a German politician and for several decades deputy chairman of the LDPD and member of the People's Chamber of the GDR. At times he was a member of the People's Chamber Presidium.

Life

Konzok was born on September 26, 1902 as the son of a sculptor in Breslau. He attended elementary school in Berlin and grammar school in his hometown, where he graduated from high school in 1920. By 1922, Konzok trained as a bookseller in Leipzig , where he also attended evening semesters in literature and art studies until 1924. Through this evening course he was able to successfully pass the librarian's examination in 1924 . He then found employment as a typesetter and printer, but only remained loyal to this activity until 1926. At the same time he began to get involved politically. Konzok became a member of the DDP in 1924 , which he left again in 1932 after the reorganization into the German State Party, and a member of the union federation of employees . At the end of the 1920s, Konzok returned to his homeland in Lower Silesia. He represented the DDP as a member of the Silesian Provincial Parliament from 1930 to 1932. From 1931 to 1937 he earned his living as a bookseller in Bunzlau . Then he worked again in Saxony until 1939, as a commercial clerk at the “Greve & Täschner” factory in Dresden. Initially classified as unworthy of defense , Konzok was nevertheless drafted and served in the Wehrmacht until the end of the war . He was taken prisoner by the Americans in Bavaria in May 1945, but was released again in June 1945.

Konzok returned to Dresden and joined a group of former DDP politicians around Hermann Kastner who had founded a Democratic Party of Germany on July 6, 1945 in Dresden . Konzok rose quickly in the local Saxon hierarchy of the Liberal Democratic Party, which was founded a short time later, and represented it from 1948 to 1950 in the Saxon state parliament and in the Dresden city council. In 1949 and 1950, Konzok held the office of deputy chairman of the LDPD regional association of Saxony. When the National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany was constituted on February 3, 1950, he became a member of the National Council.

In November 1950 he moved to Berlin politically and professionally. He became a member of the GDR government and was State Secretary until 1955 and Deputy Minister for Light Industry from 1955 to 1958. He then moved to the State Planning Commission of the GDR and became head of the glass-ceramics sector in the construction department. After a brief interlude in the Economics Council , Konzok became General Secretary of the Association of Member Cities of the GDR in the World Federation of Twin Cities in 1962. From 1963 he was also Vice President of the GDR-Africa Friendship Society. From 1950, Konzok represented the LDPD as a member of the People's Chamber. There he was a member of the Legal and Constitutional Committee from 1961 to 1971, after which he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. After the death of his party friend Johannes Dieckmann , Konzok represented the LDPD in the Presidium of the People's Chamber from 1969 to 1983, until he resigned from this office for health reasons. Within the party, he was elected deputy chairman at the IV LDPD party congress in Eisenach in 1951 and remained so until his death in 1984.

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Individual evidence

  1. Other sources only speak of a short episode from July 7th to October 15th, 1950.
  2. ^ The members of the National Council . In: Neues Deutschland , February 4, 1950, p. 2.
  3. ^ LDPD information. 26.Jg., 1972, Issue 10, p. 12.
  4. ^ LDPD information. 36th year, 1982, issue 11, p. 29.