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Horst Dohlus (Horst Paul Dohlus) was born on 30 May, 1925 in Plauen, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Germany), is a German politician. Discover Horst Dohlus's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Horst Paul Dohlus
Occupation Politician · Party Functionary · Barber
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 30 May, 1925
Birthday 30 May
Birthplace Plauen, Free State of Saxony, Weimar Republic (now Germany)
Date of death 28 April, 2007
Died Place Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1925

Horst Dohlus (30 May 1925 – 28 April 2007) was a high ranking SED party functionary in the German Democratic Republic and a member of the country's National Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer).

1939

He attended lower and middle schools locally before moving on in 1939 to a three-year apprenticeship as a Hairdresser.

1943

He continued to work in hairdressing till 1943.

In 1943, now aged 18, he was conscripted for Labour service, but because of the pressures of World War II, this very quickly became service in the army.

1945

He spent a year, between March 1945 and March 1946, as an American prisoner of war.

On his release he joined the Communist Party.

1946

However, in April 1946 the Communist Party was replaced as part of a strategy for returning the entire region (which in 1949 would be re-founded as a new standalone state called the German Democratic Republic) to one-party rule.

The Communist Party within the zone was merged, in theory on a basis of parity, with the more moderate left wing SPD (party) to form the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED / Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands).

Dohlus now signed his membership across to the SED.

Between 1946 and 1949 he worked as a miner near Annaberg.

He was now employed the Saxony's strategically important uranium mines.

1950

In 1950 he took a job as a party official with the SDAG, (known after 1954 as "SDAG Wismut"), the locally based uranium mining conglomerate which was tightly controlled by the Soviets, who had by now requisitioned a large part of his hometown as a strategically located military garrison.

Horst Dohlus now made his transfer to national politics, between 1950 and 1954 sitting as a member of the young country's National Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer), and at the same time gaining promotion with regard to his party responsibilities in the Saxon mining business.

The 1950s was a nervous time for the leaders of East Germany: directly after the rather more brutal downfall of Paul Merker, at the 23rd Central Committee Plenum in April 1955 Horst Dohlus received a reprimand from The Party for "behaviour damaging to the party and repeated violations of Party Morals" ("parteischädigenden Verhaltens u. fortgesetzter Verstöße gegen die Parteimoral").

1951

Between 1951 and 1952 he served as First Secretary of the Wismut section Party leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt (as Chemnitz was then known).

1954

Between September 1954 and August 1955 most of his time was spent in Moscow attending a course ("Lehrgang C" / "Course C") at the Communist Party Academy there.

1955

Whatever his violations of party morals may have involved, they did not terminate his party career, and on returning in 1955 he became the SED Central Committee's party organiser at the vast and prestigious new "Schwarze Pumpe" lignite based energy, heat and power combine.

1958

He stayed with Schwarze Pumpe till 1958 when he relocated to Cottbus: here, till 1960 he held a position as Second Secretary of the party's regional leadership team.

1960

From 1960 right through till 1986 Dohlus headed up the "Press Department" ("Abteilung Parteiorgane") for the Party Central Committee.

1971

In 1971, after an absence of 17 years, again became a member of the National Legislative Assembly (Volkskammer).

1976

In 1976 he was placed on the candidate list for membership of the Central Committee Politburo, membership of which followed in 1980.

1986

In 1986 he became a member of the Central Committee's powerful "Cadre Commission".

1989

At the end of 1989 Horst Dohlus's political career fell victim to the rolling demise of the German Democratic Republic.

On 9 November 1989 the Berlin Wall was breached.

The German Democratic Republic was still hosting approximately 300,000 Soviet troops at this time, but after it became clear that the fraternal troops had no instructions to repress the demonstrations violently, the gate to reunification was seen to have been left open.

Less than a month after the wall was breached the East German Politburo had resigned.

1990

On 20 January 1990, as part of a wider purge of East Germany's ruling SED (party) during the run up to reunification later that year, Horst Dohler was thrown out of the party which was already in the process of re-inventing itself as the Party of Democratic Socialism ("SED/PDS").

1995

In 1995, following reunification, Dohlus was one of those who stood trial on serious criminal charges resulting from some of the policies which East Germany's ruling party had enforced.

1997

As a result of that trial, in 1997, the country's last head of state, Egon Krenz, found himself given a six-year prison sentence by the court.

However, due their personal health issues, the trial of four of the accused, including Dohlus, was not able to proceed to a conclusion.

Dohlus was born into a working-class family in what was then a large town near the southern frontier of central Germany.