Wolfgang Rauchfuß

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Wolfgang Rauchfuß (4th from left), the head of state of Angola, accompanied Jose Eduardo dos Santos (5th from left) at the Brandenburg Gate , where Lieutenant General Karl-Heinz Drews (2nd from right) the greetings of all members of the East German border troops brought

Wolfgang Rauchfuß (born November 27, 1931 in Grüna ; † August 15, 2005 there ) was Minister for Materials Management in the GDR . He was a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

The son of a working-class family completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic from 1946 to 1949 after attending primary school. He joined the FDJ in 1946 and was a full-time instructor of the FDJ regional association in Berlin in 1949/50 , after which he was a foreign trade official. In 1951 he became a member of the SED. In 1952 he attended the technical college for foreign trade and was then sales manager at the German domestic and foreign trade precision mechanics / optics. From 1957 to 1959 he was Deputy General Director of Polygraph Export and 1960 General Director of Office Machinery Export. From 1958 to 1961 he completed a distance learning course at the Berlin School of Economics.

From 1961 to 1965 he was Deputy Minister for Foreign and Internal German Trade. In March 1965 he was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade and a member of the GDR Council of Ministers . Since December 1965 he was deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, since 1967 a member of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the People's Chamber and since 1974 Minister for Materials Management and head of the Central Energy Commission at the Council of Ministers. With the resignation of the Stoph government on November 7, 1989, he resigned from government offices and was then State Secretary in the Modrow government until March 1990 . From November 8 to December 3, 1989 he was a member of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED. From March 1990 he was an employee of the Treuhandanstalt .

He was married and had two children.

Awards

Publications

  • Speech at the international press conference for the Leipzig Autumn Fair 1964 , Berlin 1964
  • Speech at the opening of the Leipzig Spring Fair on March 2, 1968 , Berlin 1968
  • The tasks of the ladder to ensure a high material economy and economical use of energy , Berlin 1976

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Rauchfuß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Times of March 26, 1965
  2. ^ New Times of December 23, 1965
  3. ^ New Germany from December 4, 1989
personal data
SURNAME Rauchfuß, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Grüna
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 2005
Place of death Chemnitz-Grüna