Fritz Zeuner Explained

Fritz Zeuner
Office1:Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association
Term Start1:1979
Term End1:1982
Predecessor1:Ernst Wulf
Successor1:Fritz Dallmann
Birth Date:30 January 1921
Birth Place:Dölzig, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Weimar Republic
Death Date:20 April 1982 (age 61)
Death Place:East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Occupation:Politician
Party:Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1946-)
Communist Party of Germany (1945-1946)
Otherparty:Peasants Mutual Aid Association (VdgB)
Alma Mater:University of Leipzig
Parteihochschule Karl Marx
Awards:Patriotic Order of Merit, in Silver (1981)
Patriotic Order of Merit, in Bronze (1975)
Allegiance:Nazi Germany
Branch:Wehrmacht
Serviceyears:1940-1945
Battles:World War Two

Fritz Zeuner (1921-1982) was an East German politician, who was Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association from 1979 to 1982.

He served in the Wehrmacht in World War II, and joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1945. He attended the University of Leipzig, where he studied economics. Zeuner was active in the VdgB from its founding in the late 1940s, and was director of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin from 1953 to 1961. In 1979, he became Chairman of the VdgB, and remained at that post until his death in 1982.[1] [2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Die Volkskammer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 4. Wahlperiode, Staatsverlag der DDR Berlin, 1964, p. 682
  2. Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ/DDR. 1945–1990. vol. 2. K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich 1997,, p. 1043.
  3. Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (ed.): Die Parteien und Organisationen der DDR. Ein Handbuch. Dietz, Berlin 2002,, p. 1130.