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Fritz Zeuner

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Fritz Zeuner
Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association
In office
1979–1982
Preceded byErnst Wulf
Succeeded byFritz Dallmann
Personal details
Born30 January 1921
Dölzig, Altenburger Land, Thuringia, Weimar Republic
Died20 April 1982 (age 61)
East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Political partySocialist Unity Party of Germany (1946-)
Communist Party of Germany (1945-1946)
Other political
affiliations
Peasants Mutual Aid Association (VdgB)
Alma materUniversity of Leipzig
Parteihochschule Karl Marx
OccupationPolitician
AwardsPatriotic Order of Merit, in Silver (1981)
Patriotic Order of Merit, in Bronze (1975)
Military service
AllegianceNazi Germany
Branch/serviceWehrmacht
Years of service1940-1945
Battles/warsWorld 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]

References

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  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, ISBN 3-598-11177-0, p. 1043.
  3. ^ Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (ed.): Die Parteien und Organisationen der DDR. Ein Handbuch. Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0, p. 1130.
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Peasants Mutual Aid Association
1979–1982
Succeeded by