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Peter Moreth (28 July 1941 – 4 February 2014) was a German politician of the East Germansatellite partyLDPD. He was a member of theVolkskammer from 1986 to March 1990 and member of theState Council of East Germany from 1986 to November 1989. During thePeaceful Revolution he was a Deputy Chairman of theEast GermanCouncil of Ministers from November 1989 to March 1990, overseeing local government.^[2] During thetransition towardsGerman reunification he was briefly the first president of theTreuhand, the organisation entrusted with the privatisation of East Germany's nationally-owned enterprises.^[3][4]

Moreth was born in Chemnitz on 28 July 1941,^[5] during theSecond World War. His father was shopkeeper. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship as a bricklayer between 1955 and 1957, followed by another apprenticeship in retailing from 1957 till 1959. He then worked in the retail sector from 1959 to 1968. He completed a correspondence course of business administration at theUniversity of Leipzig from 1968 to 1973 and received his doctorate in economy from the same university in 1977.^[2]

In 1962 Moreth joined the East GermanLiberal Democratic Party (LDPD), one of the country's so-calledbloc parties controlled through theNational Front organisation and subordinate to the rulingSocialist Unity Party (SED). In 1964 he became chairman of the National Front's local branch in the central Saxon town ofMittweida. In 1968 he became a full-time employee of the regional party organisation of the LDPD in thedistrict of Karl-Marx-Stadt (as Chemnitz was called at that time). In 1970 he became a deputy chairman of the city council ofKarl-Marx-Stadt with responsibility for trade and supply. Then from 1971 till 1983 he was the LDPD district chairman and a member of the district council ofCottbus. He became a candidate for thecentral committee of the LDPD in 1967, a full member of the central committee in 1972 and a member of the party'spolitical bureau in 1977.^[2] From 1983 till 20 November 1989 he served as chairman of the LDPD's regional association in thedistrict of Magdeburg. In 1986 he was selected to theVolkskammer, the parliament of East Germany. Between 16 June 1986 and 17 November 1989 he served as a member of the East GermanState Council, thecollective head of state.

Under the short-lived premiership ofHans Modrow during the Peaceful Revolution, Moreth was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of ministers and minister of local administration on 19 November 1989, serving until the first and only freeEast German parliament election on 18 March 1990. Shortly before the election, on 1 March 1990, prime ministerHans Modrow appointed him as the first president of theTreuhand agency that was tasked with privatisation of theVolkseigene Betriebe (publicly owned enterprises).^[2] After proposingvoucher privatisation by handing out shares to the citizens of East Germany, he fell out of favour with the new democratic government ofLothar de Maizière that planned to sell the enterprises to investors. The prime minister believed Moreth's thinking was "firmly within a socialist economic system" and dismissed him on 15 June 1990.^[6]

After this Peter Moreth lived as a business consultant in Berlin where, in February 2014, he died.

• 1981Patriotic Order of Merit Silver

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• Politicians from Chemnitz
• People from Mittweida
• Liberal Democratic Party of Germany politicians
• Government ministers of East Germany
• Members of the State Council of East Germany
• Members of the 9th Volkskammer
• Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

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