Wolfgang Lungershausen

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Wolfgang Lungershausen (born November 27, 1925 in Weida ; † January 15, 2001 ) was general director of several major large companies in the GDR . He was also a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1963 to 1981 .

Life

Lungershausen was born in 1925 in Weida, Thuringia, as the son of an employee. He attended elementary school and high school. After graduating from high school, he was drafted into military service in 1943, and at the same time he joined the NSDAP . He became a prisoner of war .

After his release, Lungershausen became a member of the FDGB in 1945 and initially worked as a construction worker and weaver. In 1947 he was given the opportunity to study economics at the University of Jena , which he graduated from Leipzig University in 1950 with a degree in economics. Associated with this was joining the SED . Following his studies, Lungershausen was delegated to the renowned typewriter manufacturer VEB Optima Erfurt , where he was initially employed as the assistant to the plant manager. Some time later he was already working as the company's chief accountant. After the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953 , during which a strike also took place in the Optima plant, Lungershausen was appointed plant manager of the large company at the age of just 28. This also led to his being co-opted as a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt in 1954, to which he was a member until 1969.

On April 1, 1960, Lungershausen rose another rung on the career ladder. He was appointed general director of VVB Büromaschinen, which from 1964 called itself VVB Datenverarbeitung und Büromaschinen Erfurt. In this VVB more than 10 important companies in the field of office machines and data processing were united. By promoting cybernetics under the aegis of Walter Ulbricht , these companies were of central importance in the massive use of computer technology in the GDR economy. In order to better anchor Lungershausen politically, he was first put up by the SED as a candidate for the Volkskammer elections in 1963. Subsequently, he was a member of the GDR parliament until 1981. From 1967 he was a member of the Committee for Industry, Construction and Transport.

Inside the party, however, Lungershausen never advanced to the highest party bodies; he was neither a candidate nor a member of the Central Committee of the SED. Nevertheless, in the 1960s he belonged to a group of young executives in the GDR economy who had great responsibility in the NÖSPL , which was mainly driven by Erich Apel . In April 1969, VVB data processing and office machines became the combined Robotron (computing technology) and Zentronik Sömmerda (office machines, data acquisition and medium-sized data technology). Coming from office machine technology, Lungershausen consequently moved in 1970 as director for plan implementation in the Zentronik combine, which initially amounted to a descent for the former general director, but was not an unusual occurrence after he left the NÖSPL. After the change of power from Ulbricht to Honecker in 1971, the SED found a new task for Lungershausen. In 1972 he replaced Rudolf Heinze as General Director of VVB Bauelemente und Vakuumtechnik Berlin. This VVB was an association of microelectronics and television and radio technology companies. After the VVB was split up in 1978 into the Microelectronics Combines Erfurt and Electronic Components Teltow , Lungershausen headed the Teltow Combine as General Director until his retirement in 1990. The combine played a central role in the manufacture of components for Robotron computers.

Most recently, he was head of the "Professional Training" division at the Academy for Executive Training in Business (AFW). Lungershausen was married and had one son. He died at the age of 75.

Honors

literature

  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 4th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1964, p. 401.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR. Elisabeth Reichmann Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , pp. 288f.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 7th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1977, p. 421.
  • Hagen Schwärzel:  Wolfgang Lungershausen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The new principles have proven their worth . In: Neues Deutschland , February 4, 1964, p. 3.
  2. ^ New Germany, October 23, 1971, p. 3
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 23 August 1979, p. 3
  4. ^ Obituary by AFW in the Berliner Zeitung of January 27, 2001.
  5. ↑ Obituary notice at www.ancestry.de (accessed on December 29, 2017).
  6. ↑ New Germany. October 7, 1963, p. 2.
  7. ↑ New Germany. October 3, 1984, p. 4.
  8. ↑ New Germany. May 7, 1987, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Lungershausen, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graduate economist, General Director of the Combine Electronic Components Teltow
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Weida
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2001