Kurt Blecha

He was a Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) official and head of the press office, and the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR.

Blecha joined the Nazi Party in 1941[1] and was drafted into military service.

He came in 1943 in Soviet captivity and was active in the National Committee for a Free Germany.

[2] From 1953 to 1958 he was deputy director and then as successor to Fritz Beyling until 1989 in the Head of the Press Office to the Chairman of the Ministers of the GDR.

His daughter, Sigrid, was the second wife of East German foreign buyer Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski.