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Hans Reichelt - Wikipedia

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Hans Reichelt

Reichelt at the 1961 Farmers' Forum

Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management

In office
9 March 1972 – 11 January 1990

Chairman of the
Council of Ministers

Preceded by

Werner Titel

Succeeded by

Peter Diederich

Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food

In office
20 May 1955 – 7 February 1963

Chairman of the
Council of Ministers

Otto Grotewohl

Preceded by

Paul Scholz

Succeeded by

Karl-Heinz Bartsch (as Chairman of the Agricultural Council)

In office
May 1953 – October 1953

Chairman of the
Council of Ministers

Otto Grotewohl

Preceded by

Wilhelm Schröder

Succeeded by

Paul Scholz

Parliamentary constituencies

Member of the Volkskammer for Hohenmölsen, Naumburg, Weißenfels, Zeitz
In office 8 November 1950 – 5 April 1990
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished

Personal details

Born

30 March 1925 (age 99)
Proskau, Province of Upper Silesia, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Prószków, Poland)

Political party

Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany
(1949–1990)

Other political
affiliations

Nazi Party
(1943–1945)

Alma mater

Berlin School of Economics and Law

Military service

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Hans Reichelt (born 30 March 1925) is a former German politician of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD), a GDR-Bloc party. He was Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in 1953 and from 1955 to 1963, and from 1972 to January 1990, Minister of Environmental Protection and Water Management, as well as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR.

Life

Hans Reichelt was born on March 30, 1925, in Proskau. He attended secondary school in Opole. He was a member of the Hitler Youth and the Reich Labour Service. On 20 April 1943 (Hitler's birthday), he joined the NSDAP (Membership Number 9,454,165). He served as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht (ultimately holding the rank of Lieutenant) and was in Soviet POW camps until 1949, during which he attended an Antifa school.^[1]

Upon returning to Germany, he became a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany (DBD) and held various positions (president since 1955) in the party leadership. He was a member of the People's Chamber from 1950. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, succeeding Wilhelm Schröder. After attending the Central School for Agricultural Policy of the Central Committee of the SED in Schwerin, on 29 October 1953, he was appointed Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry by Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl.^[2] From 1955 to 1963, he again served as Minister of Agriculture, Procurement, and Forestry, succeeding Paul Scholz.^{[citation needed]}

From 1963 to 1964, he pursued higher education studies, and in 1971, he earned his doctorate at the Berlin School of Economics and Law with the thesis The Role and Position of Land Improvement in the Intensification of Agricultural Production and the Social Development of Socialist Agriculture and Some Fundamental Problems of the Further Application of the Economic System of Socialism in the Period up to 1980. From 1963 to 1972, he was Deputy Chairman of the Agriculture Council, and in 1971/1972, he was Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food. In this capacity, he was involved in what environmental activist Carlo Jordan called "environmentally disastrous decisions" in the areas of forced collectivization, agricultural industrialization, and land improvement.^[3]

References

^ Olaf Kappelt: Braunbuch DDR. Nazis in der DDR Berlin historica, 2009, pp. 482–483, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3.
^ Protocol of the 142nd Meeting of the Government of the GDR on 29 October 1953 - Bundesarchiv DC 20-I/3/204.
^ Carlo Jordan: Environmental Destruction and Environmental Policy in the GDR, Enquete Commission on the reappraisal of the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany, published by the German Bundestag, 12th legislative period, Vol. II/3, p. 1785.

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