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Helmut Koziolek

(Beuthen, 5/7/1927 - Berlin, 19/5/1997)

Director - Zentralinsitut für Sozialistische Wirtschaftsführung (1965-1990)
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As director of the Zentralinstitut für sozialistische Wirtschaftsführung, Helmut Koziolek was an appreciated expert in the reform era of the late Ulbricht years. Under Erich Honecker’s leadership he supposedly lost his influence. Nevertheless, at times his name still appeared in the economic debates. In the mid-1970s, he, the President of the Academy of Social Sciences, Otto Reinhold, and others provided Honecker with an analysis warning of the potential consequences of his economic policy. Their advice fell on deaf ears.

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Erich Honecker

As Secretary General of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker shaped the East German economic and foreign policy most. It was him who took the final decisions. By introducing and pursuing the concept of “Unity of Economic a...

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