Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Vladimir Vasilyevich Schtscherbitzki (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Щербицкий; born February 17, 1918 in Werchnjednjeprowsk, government Jekaterinoslaw, today Werchnjodniprowsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, † 17 February 1990) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician and from 1961 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1972 Minister of the Ukrainian SSR.
Life
Training and career
Schtscherbitzki was an engineer graduate - how many members of the Soviet nomenklatura - in politics before he made as a member of the CPSU career. In 1948, he was only 30 years under Leonid Brezhnev ( 1947-1950 ) Second Obkomsekretär the party in the Ukrainian Oblast Dnepropetrovsk. Since that time, there was a consensual relationship between these two political variables.
Ukrainian Prime Minister
From 1961 to 1963 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. From this post he rose from 1961 to 1963 on the candidate of the Politburo. As part of a general Erneuerungsbestrebung he lost in 1963 - although young in years - his offices and was demoted by Khrushchev's influence as a member of the Central Committee. Schtscherbitzki 1963 First Obkomsekretär the party town of Dnepropetrovsk, a certainly lower position than before.
From 1965 to 1972 - that is, after Khrushchev's fall, where he worked - he was Brezhnev again Prime Minister of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1965 to 1971 and again candidate for the Politburo.
In the centers of power
1971 rose Schtscherbitzki on to hold the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and, in the period from 9 April 1971 to 20 September 1989. Between 1972 and 1989 he also served as successor of Shelest first Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In Ukraine, the Shelest confidant lost their posts. The beginnings of a Ukrainian autonomy were suppressed.
" He led " - like Gorbachev remembered - " the Republic ( Ukraine) with a sure hand. " For 1978, he was named as General Secretary of the Party as a possible successor to Brezhnev; Yuri Andropov should prevail later. In 1987, he supported nor the first attempts at reform Gorbachev; However, he followed this increasing path of change from 1989 no more and resigned from the Politburo and its offices in Ukraine.
Honors
- Hero of Socialist Labour ( twice)
- Lenin Prize
- Order of Lenin ( seven times )
- Order of the October Revolution (twice)
- Order of the Great Patriotic War