Alfred Lemmnitz

Alfred Lemmnitz (* June 27, 1905 in diving, † September 23, 1994 in Berlin- Pankow ) was Minister of Education of the GDR.

Life

Lemmnitz trained as a typesetter and a degree in economics at the University of Leipzig. From 1927 to 1931 he was a member of the SPD and youth leaders of the Socialist Workers' Youth in Moers. In 1931, he stepped over to the KPD and was head of the district of the Communist Youth League of Germany in Duisburg- Hamborn. He worked illegally in 1933 for the KPD and was several times in "protective custody". From October 1933 to 1936 he sat in the concentration camps Börgermoor and esters due to 1937 and in custody in Duisburg. He was sentenced by the People's Court to one year and nine months in prison, released from prison and expelled from the Ruhr. In April, he emigrated to the Netherlands, where he was a member of the Communist Party leadership in Amsterdam. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, he was arrested again and sentenced in 1941 by the People's Court to ten years in prison. Until 1945 he was a prisoner in the penitentiary Brandenburg -Gorden.

After 1945

1946 joined the SED in Lemmnitz, took up his studies again and received his doctorate in 1948 at the University of Leipzig. From 1948 to 1953 he was Head of Department of Political Economy at the Party School, then to 1955, Professor of Political Economy and Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rostock, until 1956 Director of the College of Public Finance in Potsdam- Babelsberg and until 1958 the University of Economics in Berlin. In 1958 he, succeeding Fritz Lange Minister of Education, member of the Council of Ministers and of the Ideological Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED was. From 1963 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences until 1971, deputy director of the German Economic Institute and then employees of the Institute of International Politics and Economics.

Honors

Lemmnitz received in 1958 the medal for fighters against fascism, the 1959 National Award, 1959 and 1970, the Patriotic Order of Merit, in 1975 the honor Clasp to the Patriotic Order of Merit, in 1980 the Karl -Marx- Orden and 1985 the Star of People's Friendship. The final resting he found on a Pankow Cemetery.