Peter Moreth
| Peter Moreth | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 July 1941 Chemnitz, Germany |
| Died |
4 February 2014 (aged 72) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Political party | LDPD |
Peter Moreth (28 July 1941 – 4 February 2014) was a German politician and party official of the East German LDPD (party). In 1989/90 he was Local Government Deputy Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers.
During the transition towards German reunification he was briefly the first president of the Treuhand, the organisation entrusted with the privatisation of East German enterprises.
Moreth was born in central Saxony on 28 July 1941, during the war. His father was shopkeeper. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship as a bricklayer between 1955 and 1957, followed by another apprenticeship in retailing from 1957 till 1959. He then worked in the retail sector from 1959 to 1968.
He joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party (LDPD / Liberal-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands), one of the country's so-called bloc parties controlled through the East German National Front organisation by the ruling SED (party). Having joined the party he became, between 1962 and 1968 a local politician in Mittweida (between Chemnitz and Dresden).
In 1968 he became a full-time employee of the regional party organisation of the LDPD in the Karl-Marx-Stadt region. (Karl-Marx-Stadt has subsequently reverted to its former name of Chemnitz.) In 1970 he became a Deputy Mayor of the city with responsibility for trade and supply. Then from 1971 till 1983 he became the LDPD (Party) District Chairman and city councillor in Cottbus approximately 160 km (100 miles) to the north-east. He was placed on the list of succession candidates for the central committee of the LDPD in 1967, becoming a member in 1972. In 1977 he became a member of the party's central committee, and in May of that same year he received his doctorate.
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