Wolfgang Beyreuther

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Wolfgang Beyreuther in the group photo of the Council of Ministers in 1981 (3rd row, 6th from left)

Wolfgang Beyreuther (born June 16, 1928 in Böhlitz-Ehrenberg , † February 1, 2012 in Betzenstein ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was State Secretary for Labor and Wages in the Council of Ministers of the GDR and deputy chairman of the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB), member of the People's Chamber and member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED.

Life

Coming from a working-class family, Beyreuther completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter after attending elementary school from 1942 to 1944 and after completing his national labor service he did his military service from 1944 to 1945 in the Wehrmacht .

After his release from prisoner-of-war in 1945, he first worked as a demolition worker for a construction company in Rendsburg and then from 1945 to 1948 as a machine fitter at VEB Polygraph Leipzig . After joining the FDGB, he was also a youth shop steward in a metal works in Leipzig. In 1946 he first joined the SPD and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, became a member of the SED. From 1947 to 1951 he was a member of the local executive committee of IG Metall in Leipzig and at the same time between 1948 and 1951 he was youth secretary of the local and regional executive committee.

Between 1951 and 1952 he graduated from the trade union college "Fritz Heckert" and after its completion and the move to Berlin from 1953 to 1956 worked as an instructor, department head and finally as a member of the secretariat and secretary of the central board of IG Metall. He then studied from 1956 to 1959 at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and completed this course with the academic degree of a social scientist.

After his return to the GDR he became a full-time functionary of the FDGB and was a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the FDGB between 1959 and 1989 and from 1959 to 1977 also a member of the Presidium and the Secretariat of the Federal Executive Committee of the FDGB. In this capacity, he was also the editor of the book Das uns Gemiges in 1970 . Lyric anthology of writing workers . From October 1959 to December 1961 he was secretary of the federal executive for agitation and propaganda, from October 1959 to 1964 for culture, from October 1959 to December 1963 for the central library and for the union college, from October 1959 to July 1968 for the publishing house of the union newspaper Tribune , from November 1959 to November 1960 for the press, from November 1963 to 1965 for international relations, December 1963 to 1966 for agitation and propaganda and again from April to May 1968 responsible for culture.

Between 1964 and 1971 he was a deputy member in the office of the General Council of the World Trade Union Federation (WGB) and from 1966 to 1971 Vice President of the League for the United Nations of the GDR. In July 1971, he succeeded Rolf Berger, alongside Johanna Töpfer, as deputy chairman of the FDGB and thus representative of Harry Tisch . He held this position until April 1977 and was also a member of the office of the General Council of the WGB.

At the same time he was elected member of the People's Chamber in 1971 and was a member of the parliamentary group of the FDGB after the elections to the People's Chamber in 1976 , 1981 and 1986 to 1990 and was also Deputy Chairman of the Committee on National Defense between 1976 and 1981. He also became a candidate in 1971 and then from 1973 to 1989 a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED.

In April 1977 he succeeded Horst Rademacher as State Secretary for Labor and Wages and as such was a member of the GDR Council of Ministers from July 1977 to November 1989. In November 1989 the State Secretariat was upgraded to a ministry, and Hannelore Mensch became Minister for Labor and Wages . At the same time he was head of the GDR delegations at the international labor conferences of the International Labor Organization (ILO) between 1977 and 1989 .

Most recently, from 1982 to 1990 he was also chairman of the GDR- Afghanistan friendship committee of the League for Friendship between Nations .

Since 1992 he lived in Betzenstein in Bavaria and headed the men's choir there.

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice
  2. ^ Peter Huebner, Christa Huebner: Socialism as a social question: Social policy in the GDR and Poland, 1968-1976 . In: Contemporary History Studies . tape 45 . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20203-3 , pp. 81 (520 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Paul Cooke: Speaking the Taboo: A Study of the Work of Wolfgang Hilbig . In: Amsterdam publications on language and literature . tape 141 . Rodopi, 2000, ISBN 90-420-1542-X , ISSN  0169-0221 , pp. 22 (English, 247 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Secretaries of the federal executive committee of the FDGB according to areas of responsibility
  5. ^ Tribune (newspaper) from April 29, 1977
  6. ^ Article State Secretariat for Work and Wages in the FDGB Lexicon 2009
  7. ^ New Germany of June 17, 1977
  8. ↑ Axel Salheiser, Dietmar Remy, Ronald Gebauer: The data storage device "Societal working capacity ": Process-produced data as a source for quantitative historical social research and a sociology of GDR socialism ( Memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 226 kB)
  9. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of November 18, 1989
  10. ↑ Choral society once saved. on www.nordbayern.de
  11. ↑ Congratulations to Comrade Wolfgang Beyreuther , In: Neues Deutschland, June 16, 1988, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Beyreuther, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (SED, FDGB), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2012
Place of death Betzenstein