Paul Scholz

Paul Scholz (2 October 1902 – 23 June 1995) was a German journalist and politician. He held various cabinet posts in East Germany.

Paul Scholz
Personal details
Born(1902-10-02)2 October 1902
Braunau, Silesia
Died23 June 1995(1995-06-23) (aged 92)
Zeuthen, Germany
Political party

Early life and education

Scholz was born in Braunau on 2 October 1902, and his father was a farmer.[1] Scholz was a primary school graduate and worked at a factory following his graduation.[2]

Career and activities

Scholz was a member of the Communist Party of Germany and arrested several times after the Nazis came into power.[1] He became a member of the editorial board of the newspaper of the Communist Party in June 1945 and worked for various newspapers until 1950. He was a member of the East German Parliament from 1950, and his tenure lasted until 1981.[2]

Scholz joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in April 1946 and worked as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Der freie Bauer (German: The Free Farmer).[1] Between July 1949 to 1953 he served as the vice chairman of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany which was cofounded by him in June 1948.[1][3]

Scholz was appointed minister of agriculture and forestry in November 1950 succeeding Ernst Goldenbaum in the post and was in office until May 1952.[4] He was succeeded by Wilhelm Schröder in the post.[4] Scholz was the head of the coordination and control center for agriculture, forestry and water management between May 1952 and November 1953.[4] He was the deputy chairman of the East German Council of Ministers between May 1952 and July 1967.[4][5] He was again appointed minister of agriculture and forestry in November 1953, replacing Hans Reichelt in the post.[4] Scholz's tenure ended in March 1955 when Hans Reichelt was reappointed minister of agriculture and forestry.[4] Scholz was a member of the Central Executive the Land and Forestry Union from 1957.[2]

Scholz became the president of the Friendship Association between East Germany and Arab countries in 1963 and visited the United Arab Republic in this capacity in 1967.[2][6] He became the vice president of the Peoples' Friendship League in 1967.[2] He retired from politics and public posts in 1967.[2]

Later life and death

Scholz died in Zeuthen on 23 June 1995.[2][7]

References
  1. "Paul Scholz. Politiker in der DDR". Munzinger-Archiv (in German). Taken from Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1968; 4 March 1968
  2. "Scholz, Paul" (in German). Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  3. Tao Chen (August 2018). "East German pragmatism, China's policy of differentiation, and Soviet miscalculation: Hermann Matern's 1961 trip to China revisited". Cold War History. 19 (1): 91. doi:10.1080/14682745.2018.1483341.
  4. Ursula Hoffmann-Lange (1971). Die Veränderungen in der Sozialstruktur des Ministerrates der DDR: 1949-1969 (in German). Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. pp. 35, 60, 95, 98, 101. ISBN 978-3-7700-0281-8.
  5. Lorenz M. Lüthi (2016). "The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War, 1961–1973". Journal of Cold War Studies. 18 (4): 115. doi:10.1162/JCWS_a_00682. JSTOR 26925642.
  6. Lorena De Vita (September 2017). "Overlapping rivalries: the two Germanys, Israel and the Cold War". Cold War History. 17 (4): 360. doi:10.1080/14682745.2017.1322580.
  7. "Scholz, Paul" (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
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