Horst Heintze

Horst Heintze
Born(1927-08-15)15 August 1927
Halle, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany
Died14 December 1997(1997-12-14) (aged 70)
Occupation(s)Trades Union official
Politician
Political partyNSDAP
SED

Horst Heintze (15 August 1927 – 14 December 1997) was a German trades union official and politician. Through the union movement he rose to become a member of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer) in the German Democratic Republic and, from 1963, a member of the powerful Party Central Committee.[1] He was unusual in rising this far through the power structure of the country despite having been a Nazi Party member in his youth.[2]

  1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs; Andreas Herbst. "Heintze, Horst * 15.8.1927, † 14.12.1997 FDGB-Funktionär" (in German). Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  2. ^ Andreas Herbst. "Heintze, Horst (*15.8.1927 - †14.12.1997)". fdgb-lexikon. Forschungsverbund SED-Staat an der Freien Universität Berlin, Abt. Lankwitz and others. ISBN 978-3-86872-240-6. Retrieved 13 June 2015.