Josef Duchac
Josef Duchac ( born February 19, 1938 in Bad beat, Czechoslovakia ) is a German politician of the CDU. From 1990 to 1992 he was the first President of the Region after the German reunification.
Life
Josef Duchac was born the son of a Sudeten German working class family. At the end of the Second World War his family was expelled from Czechoslovakia and found a new home in Gotha. After graduation in 1957, Josef Duchac began studying chemistry and mathematics at the Pedagogical Institute Mühlhausen (now part of the University of Erfurt ). After a year, he broke off his studies, first worked in the Post newspaper distribution, then from 1959 to 1961 as a worker in the VEB rubber works in Walter Hausen ( KOWALIT = Combine Walterhausen In Thuringia, now part of ContiTech AG, Hannover). In 1961 he attended the School of Engineering for rubber and plastics technology in Fürstenwalde / Spree, Brandenburg again studies on which he completed in 1964 with the examination as a chemical engineer.
In 1964 he became shift engineer in the VEB rubber works in Walter Hausen. Ducháč went through here until 1986 a career to operation leader.
On the side he laid for a correspondence course at the Dresden University of Technology and the Technical University of Leuna- Merseburg in 1973 his degree as an engineer - economist from.
1957 Ducháč joined the CDU in the GDR. From 1986 to 1989 he was deputy county chairman of the CDU in Gotha, changed from the VEB rubber works in Walter Hausen ( KOWALIT ) in the council of the district of Gotha, where he was responsible for the department housing industry until 1989.
After 1989, had been replaced in the turbulence of the turning point, the management appointed by the SED of VEB rubber works in Walter Hausen, Duchac returned to his old job and took over for half a year, the management of the plant.
He became increasingly involved in politics, increased in October 1989 to the district chairman of the CDU in Gotha and was in December 1989, member of the board of the CDU in the GDR.
On June 11, 1990, he took over as a government representative ( de Maizière government ), the district administrative authority Erfurt. As with the Länder Act of 22 July 1990, the state of Thuringia rebuilt was (see History of Thuringia and history of administrative divisions of Thuringia ), Duchac was the beginning of August 1990 appointed by the last East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière Country Representative for this newly formed country. From 1 October 1990, he served as the national representative of the Land of Thuringia, the newly constituted on 3 October 1990.
One of the first free and democratic parliamentary elections on 14 October 1990, the CDU came with Josef Duchac as the leading candidate, and went forth out of choice with 45.5 percent as by far the strongest party (44 of the 89 seats ), followed by SPD: 22, 8 percent ( 21 seats ), the PDS: 9.7 percent (9 seats), the FDP: 9.3 percent (9 seats), alliance 90/The Greens: 6.5 percent (6 seats). On 8 November 1990 Josef Duchac was elected Prime Minister of a CDU - FDP coalition government (see Cabinet Ducháč ).
On January 23, 1992, he resigned from his post after he trust his group could not be sure. This was preceded by allegations Ducháč have worked during the time of the GDR for the Ministry of State Security. A first motion of censure of the SPD he had survived in mid-December 1991.
The coalition elected as successor Bernhard Vogel, the former Minister President of Rhineland -Palatinate, as the new head of government.
Josef Duchac then took over the management of various foreign representatives of the CDU - affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation, first in Lisbon ( Portugal), and later in St. Petersburg ( Russia) and Budapest ( Hungary).