Otto Arndt

Otto Arndt
Arndt in 1986
Minister for Transport
In office
14 December 1970 – 18 November 1989
Chairman of the
Council of Ministers
First Deputy
  • Heino Weiprecht
  • Volkmar Winkler
  • Heinz Schmidt
Preceded byErwin Kramer
Succeeded byHeinrich Scholz
General Director of the
Deutsche Reichsbahn
In office
16 December 1970 – November 1989
First Deputy
  • Günther Knobloch
  • Heinz Schmidt
  • Herbert Keddi
Preceded byErwin Kramer
Succeeded byHerbert Keddi
President of the
Reichsbahndirektion Berlin
In office
2 August 1961 – 14 February 1964
Preceded byHeinz Gebhardt
Succeeded byGünter Stuhr
Volkskammer
Member of the Volkskammer
for Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen, Worbis
In office
29 October 1976 – 5 April 1990
Preceded byLuise Ermisch
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born(1920-07-19)19 July 1920
Aschersleben, Province of Saxony, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died3 February 1992(1992-02-03) (aged 71)
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1946–1989)
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Railwayman
Awards
Central institution membership
Other offices held
  • 1964–1970: Deputy Minister,
    Ministry for Transport
  • 1953–1960: Vice President,
    Reichsbahndirektion Halle
  • 1951–1953: Vice President,
    Reichsbahndirektion Dresden

Otto Arndt (19 July 1920 – 3 February 1992) was an East German politician who served as minister of transport and General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1970 until 1989.

Biography

The son of a locomotive driver, Arndt was born in Aschersleben in 1920 and was trained as a locksmith. He served in the Luftwaffe during World War II with the rank of Obergefreiter. After the war, he trained to become a railway inspector and began his career in the Reichsbahn. Arndt was also very politically active and was a founding member of the Socialist Unity Party in the newly created German Democratic Republic.

In 1970, Arndt succeeded Erwin Kramer as Minister of Transport and Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and served in those capacities until he resigned alongside other government ministers in November 1989. He was also a member of the Volkskammer until March 1990.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Reuter, Elke; Müller-Enbergs, Helmut (2010). Wer war wer in der DDR? [Who was Who in the GDR?] (in German). Berlin: Ch. Links. ISBN 9783861535614.
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