Wolfgang Pohl (politician, 1940)

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Wolfgang Pohl (born February 10, 1940 in Königsberg ) is a former German SED functionary and later PDS politician. He was deputy party chairman in 1989/90.

Life

From 1946 to 1954, Pohl attended an elementary school in the Wismar district . Afterwards he was trained as a steel shipbuilder in the "Mathias-Thesen-Werft" Wismar . In 1956 he joined the FDJ. From 1957 to 1960 he did his military service with the People's Police . In 1960 Pohl joined the SED and from 1961 to 1962 he attended the administration school in Staßfurt . After completing secondary school in 1964, he studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1965 to 1970 . He completed his studies with a degree in law. He then worked from 1970 to 1974 as Deputy Mayor in Magdeburg . This was followed by three years of study at the party college "Karl Marx" , which he graduated with a degree in social science. From 1978 to 1989 Pohl was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg-North.

In November 1989 he replaced Werner Eberlein as 1st Secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg. Pohl was a member of the working committee for the preparation of the extraordinary party congress of the SED in December 1989 and was elected there as deputy chairman of the SED-PDS (later PDS), head of the commission organization and party life and the statutes commission.

After the Volkskammer election in 1990 , he was a member of the GDR parliament for the PDS from March to October 1990.

In connection with financial manipulation of the PDS (“ Putnik Deal ”) Pohl resigned from all offices in October 1990. In this context, several trials were brought against him on suspicion of infidelity, which ended on June 20, 1995 with an acquittal by the Berlin Regional Court .

He later worked in a law firm in Leipzig .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pohl's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : The members of the 10th People's Chamber of the GDR (Volkparl) .
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, PDS), member of the Volkskammer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)