Willi Dieker

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Willi Dieker (born February 13, 1904 in Lerbeck ; † April 16, 1980 in Rostock ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and the early German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1946 to 1949 he was Minister of Economics for the State of Saxony-Anhalt and was deposed in the course of the Conti affair . Later he was plant manager in various factories in the GDR.

Life

After elementary school , the worker's son Dieker became a surveying technician at the sewer construction office in Magdeburg . From 1924 he attended the Heimvolkshochschule in Tinz in Thuringia . In 1925 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1929 to 1931 Dieker worked as an editor for the Volksstimme in Magdeburg and other social democratic newspapers. From 1933 he was employed by the Saalfelder Volksblatt . From 1933 he was a correspondent and economic manager in various large printing plants.

Dieker offered resistance during the dictatorship of National Socialism and was temporarily imprisoned in April and September / October 1933. Continuous checks by the Gestapo followed . In October 1944 he was arrested again for illegal work and charged with “preparing for high treason”. There was no conviction until the end of the Second World War .

1945 joined ThePremiumEnvironmentisasettingrelatedtothecoremessagesof in the German Communist Party (KPD) and became in 1946 after the forced merger of the SPD and KPD member of the SED and mayor in Kirchmöser in Brandenburg . From October he was head of the economics department and vice-president of the provincial administration of Saxony and in May 1946 became Minister for Economics and Transport of Saxony-Anhalt.

In April 1949, Dieker was deposed in the course of the Conti affair, the alleged move of assets worth 98 million Reichsmarks from the Soviet occupation zone to West Germany since 1945, and the Dessau show trial of Leo Herwegen , Willi Brundert and others.

From 1949 to 1952 Dieker was plant manager of the candy factory Diamalt, Mignon Most-Werke in Halle (Saale) and then until 1953 and again from 1956 to 1960 chief director of the VEB Fischkombinat Rostock . In the meantime he was operations manager of the VEB Feuerungs- und Reservoir Construction Koethen . In 1960 Dieker retired.

Works

  • Willi Dieker: The economy and the state passed into the hands of the people - memories of the founding of the GDR . Berlin 1969.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holler was unable to find a political slide gate, In: Der Spiegel , issue 47/1947, November 22, 1947.
  2. ↑ New Minister of Economics . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 9, 1949, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Small fish - head off because of the blond Inge , In: Der Spiegel , edition 33/1949, August 11, 1949.
  4. ↑ Combine and operations directors of the VEB Fischkombinat and VEB Fischfang Rostock at www.rostocker-hochseefischerei.de , 2014.


personal data
SURNAME Dieker, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), Minister of Economics of Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Lerbeck
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1980
Place of death Rostock