Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
	Schalck-Golodkowski in 1988
Head of the KoKo; State Secretary in the; Ministry for Foreign Trade
	In office; 7 December 1966 – 6 December 1989
Minister	Horst Sölle; Gerhard Beil;
Deputy	Horst Roigk; Manfred Seidel;
Preceded by	Horst Roigk
Succeeded by	Karl-Heinz Gerstenberger (acting)
Personal details
Born	3 July 1932; Treptow, Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic; (now Germany)
Died	21 June 2015 (aged 82); Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany
Political party	Socialist Unity Party; (1955–1989)
Spouses	; Margareta Becker (m. 1955; div. 1975) Sigrid Gutmann (m. 1976)
Children	2
Alma mater	Hochschule für Außenhandel; Juristische Hochschule des MfS
Occupation	Politician; Civil Servant; Businessman; Precision Mechanic;
Awards	Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class; Order of Karl Marx; Medal Brotherhood in Arms; Star of People's Friendship;
	Central institution membership 1986–1989: Full member,; Central Committee ; Other offices held 1962–1966: First Secretary, Socialist Unity Party in the Ministry for Foreign Trade ;

Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski (3 July 1932 – 21 June 2015) was a politician and trader in the German Democratic Republic. He was director of a main department ('Hauptverwaltungsleiter') in the Ministry for Foreign Trade and German Domestic Trade (1956–62), the Deputy Minister for External Trade (1967–75), and head of the GDR's Kommerzielle Koordinierung (KoKo, 1966–86).

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