Günther Kleiber

Günther Kleiber ( born September 16, 1931 in Eula, † March 29, 2013 in Berlin) was a member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee and Minister of general machinery, agricultural machinery and vehicle in the GDR.

Life

Kleiber graduated 1946-1949 training as an electrician in the VEB lignite power plant Großzössen - Witznitz, 1950-1952 attended the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty of Dresden and studied 1952-1958 at the Department of Aerospace Studies at the University of Rostock, in 1953 in the course of establishing East German aircraft industry was moved to the Technical University of Dresden. There, he was a research assistant until 1962.

Kleiber appeared in 1947, the FDJ, visited 1949, the country's youth activists School and in 1950 was a member of the SED. 1962-1963 he was a full-time secretary of the faculty party organization of the SED at the TU Dresden, then employee or director of the Electronics Department of the SED district leadership Dresden, 1966-1971 Secretary for the coordination and use of the computer to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR. Since 1967 he was a member of the People's Chamber, member of the Central Committee and candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. He was also deputy 1971-1988 or 1988-1989 First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In 1984 he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and 1988 Member of the National Defence Council.

1973-1986 Kleiber was minister for general machinery, agricultural machinery and vehicle, then permanent representative of the GDR in the RGW.

November 7, 1989 Kleiber resigned from his government post and on November 8, 1989 back as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and was expelled from the SED on December 3. An investigation for abuse of office and corruption was set in May 1990, Kleiber was unemployed after release from custody.

In August 1995 began a process against him because of " manslaughter and responsibility for the border regime of the GDR" in front of the Berlin Landgericht. Kleiber was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The Federal Court upheld the verdict in November 1999 and Kleiber came on 18 January 2000, the detention in an open prison in the prison hook field in Berlin. On 6 September 2000, he was pardoned along with Schabowski, through Berlin's Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen ( CDU).