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
Deputy
  • Horst Roigk
  • Manfred Seidel
Preceded byHorst Roigk
Succeeded byKarl-Heinz Gerstenberger (acting)
Personal details
Born(1932-07-03)3 July 1932
Treptow, Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic
(now Germany)
Died21 June 2015 (2015-06-22) (aged 82)
Rottach-Egern, Bavaria, Germany
Political partySocialist Unity Party
(1955–1989)
Spouses
Margareta Becker
(m. 1955; div. 1975)
    Sigrid Gutmann
    (m. 1976)
    Children2
    Alma materHochschule für Außenhandel
    Juristische Hochschule des MfS
    Occupation
    • Politician
    • Civil Servant
    • Businessman
    • Precision Mechanic
    Awards
    Central institution membership

    Other offices held

    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).