Leschau, Siegbert

After graduating from a public school, the turner’s son Siegbert Leschau trained as a carpenter. In 1946 he joined the SED. In 1948 he received a matriculation certificate and until 1952 he studied at the Dresden Higher Technical School , received a diploma in chemistry. He worked as an assistant at a higher technical school, then received the post of employee of the Chemistry sector in the Central Committee of the SED. In 1954 he was appointed head of the research group, chief technologist and in 1960 director of the metallurgical national enterprise in Lutherstadt-Aisleben . He defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1961-1962, Löschau served as deputy head of production and technology in the main department of chemistry at the Council of the National Economy of the GDR. In 1962-1965, he was a member of the district committee of the SED in Halle and in January 1963 replaced Professor Wolfgang Schirmer as director of the plant in Loyne . He held this position until 1965. At the VI SED Congress, in January 1963, Leschau was admitted as a candidate member of the SED Central Committee, and at the VII Plenum of the Central Committee in December 1964, he was admitted to the SED Central Committee. From December 1965 to May 1966, Siegbert Löschau served as Minister of the Chemical Industry and member of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the GDR. In May 1966, he lost all his posts, was sent to work in the chemical industry with a probationary period, and led the research department in Schwarzheide . At the XIII Plenum of the SED Central Committee in September 1966, Leschau was removed from the SED Central Committee with the wording "for inappropriate behavior."

In September 1987, Leschau was elected Chairman of the District Board of the Technical Chamber in Cottbus. He died at 84 and was buried in the New Cemetery in Senftenberg .

• Andreas Herbst et al. (Hrsg.): So funktionierte die DDR. Band 3: Lexikon der Funktionäre. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , S. 210

• Biography (German)