Otto Arndt

Otto Arndt
Arndt in 1986
Minister for Transport
In office 14 December 1970 – 18 November 1989
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Willi Stoph Horst Sindermann Willi Stoph
First Deputy	Heino Weiprecht Volkmar Winkler Heinz Schmidt
Preceded by	Erwin Kramer
Succeeded by	Heinrich Scholz
General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn
In office 16 December 1970 – November 1989
First Deputy	Günther Knobloch Heinz Schmidt Herbert Keddi
Preceded by	Erwin Kramer
Succeeded by	Herbert Keddi
President of the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin
In office 2 August 1961 – 14 February 1964
Preceded by	Heinz Gebhardt
Succeeded by	Günter Stuhr
Volkskammer Member of the Volkskammer for Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen, Worbis In office 29 October 1976 – 5 April 1990 Preceded by Luise Ermisch Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	(1920-07-19)19 July 1920 Aschersleben, Province of Saxony, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Died	3 February 1992(1992-02-03) (aged 71)
Political party	Socialist Unity Party (1946–1989)
Alma mater	"Karl Marx" Party Academy Zentralinstitut für sozialistische Wirtschaftsführung beim ZK der SED
Occupation	Politician Railwayman
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class Banner of Labor Hero of Labour
Central institution membership 1975–1989: Full member, Central Committee 1971–1975: Candidate member, Central Committee Other offices held 1964–1970: Deputy Minister, Ministry for Transport 1953–1960: Vice President, Reichsbahndirektion Halle 1951–1953: Vice President, Reichsbahndirektion Dresden

Otto Arndt (19 July 1920 – 3 February 1992) was an East German politician who served as minister of transport and General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1970 until 1989.

Biography

The son of a locomotive driver, Arndt was born in Aschersleben in 1920 and was trained as a locksmith. He served in the Luftwaffe during World War II with the rank of Obergefreiter. After the war, he trained to become a railway inspector and began his career in the Reichsbahn. Arndt was also very politically active and was a founding member of the Socialist Unity Party in the newly created German Democratic Republic.

In 1970, Arndt succeeded Erwin Kramer as Minister of Transport and Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and served in those capacities until he resigned alongside other government ministers in November 1989. He was also a member of the Volkskammer until March 1990.

See also

• Council of Ministers of East Germany
• Transport in the German Democratic Republic

External links

• Media related to Otto Arndt at Wikimedia Commons