He was first Secretary of the Central Council of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and a member of the Volkskammer of the East Germany.

Born in Demmin as son of a baker, Namokel attended elementary school and was then trained as a shipbuilder in Szczecin from 1942 to 1944.

[1] Namokel then served in the Reich Labor Service and from September 1944 to May 1945 was a Wehrmacht soldier with the final rank of sailor.

After that, from April to July 1952 he was Secretary for Economics of the SED State Leadership in Mecklenburg and then Secretary for Economics of the SED District Leadership in Rostock until May 1955, and from 1954 to 1955 he was a member of the Rostock District Assembly.

[4] At the 6th Parliament of the FDJ he was replaced due to "weaknesses and his lack of experience in youth work".