Wolfgang Heyl

Wolfgang Heyl (21 August 1921 in Borna – 14 May 2014) was a German politician.

Life

In 1939, at the age of 18, Heyl joined the NSDAP and became a lieutenant in the army.

After the Second World War, he was from 1947 CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Borna, an office he held until 1952.

In 1949, he became a member of the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) (CDU) in which he was the Organization Secretary from 1952 to 1954 and Deputy Chairman of the District Association of Leipzig. From 1958 to 1966, Heyl was Deputy Secretary-General of the CDU, 1966 to 1971 Member of the Bureau and the Secretariat of the CDU Main Board, then to 1989 deputy CDU chairman in November 1989 and briefly acting CDU chairman.

From 1953 to 1958, he was a member of the CDU in Leipzig County Council. From 1958 to 1990 he was member of the parliament of the German Democratic Republic, 1963-1989 Chairman of the CDU faction, since 1971, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 1976 to November 1989 Member of the Bureau the People's Chamber. In 1986, he was awarded the GDR decoration Hero of Work. In 1977, he was awarded an honorary Clasp to the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. In 1981, he was awarded the Star of People's Friendship in gold. In late 1989, due to a heart attack, Heyl resigned from his offices.[1]

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gollark: It is possible to make GIFs with better colours via methods.
gollark: - things are, on average, generally improving- any economic system which operates at scale, i.e. any able to maintain our modern standard of living, has to wrestle with this complexity too- none of this implies that supply and demand "is made up"
gollark: I don't think this is actually true though. Prices of technology in terms of hours of work have gone down a lot, and the power of it has gone up.
gollark: Presumably because making complex and bureaucracy-driven institutions actually work sanely is an unsolved problem.

References
  1. Kurzbiografie zu: "Heyl, Wolfgang". In: Wer war wer in der DDR? 5. Ausgabe. Band 1 Ch. Links, Berlin 2010 p.282 ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4
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