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East German politician
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Hannelore Mensch
BornHannelore Bosch
16 June 1937
Neu Zachun (Hagenow), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
OccupationPolitician
Political partySED

Hannelore Mensch (born Hannelore Bosch; 16 June 1937 in Neu Zachun) is a former East German politician. She served as the German Democratic Republic's Minister for Work and Wages in 1989/90.

Life

Hannelore Bosch was born in the north of what was then the central part of Germany. Her father was a farmer and she had a rural upbringing. The Second World War started when she was 2 and ended when she was not quite 8, after which her childhood was spent growing up in the Soviet occupation zone in what remained of Germany. While she was 12 the occupation zone became the German Democratic Republic, formally founded in October 1949. Between 1953 and 1956 Hannelore attended an agricultural college in Ludwigslust, emerging with a qualification in Agriculture. In 1958 she took a job as a Planner with MTS Brüsewitz, a state-administered agricultural machinery depot serving the district. From 1958 till 1962 she served as FDJ secretary and as divisional leader with the Schwerin rural district council. In 1959 she joined East Germany's ruling SED (party).

She worked in the Agriculture Department with the Berlin city council from 1962 till 1963, moving on to become a department head with the Party Regional Leadership between 1963 and 1973. Meanwhile, she undertook a correspondence course with the "Karl Marx" Party Academy which led her to a degree in Social Sciences. Promotion followed, and from 1973 till 1978 she was a Berlin city councilor and senior secretary with the council. From 1979 till 1989 she served as first deputy mayor of Berlin. During the final months of one-party government in the German Democratic Republic, from November 1989 till March 1990, she entered national politics, serving in the Modrow government as Minister for Work and Wages.

In 1993 Hannelore Mensch was convicted of local government election fraud by the Berlin district Court and sentenced to one year of supervised liberty ("probation").

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs. "Mensch, Hannelore geb. Bosch * 16.6.1937 Ministerin für Arbeit u. Löhne". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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