Adolf Garling

Adolf Garling (born January 11, 1925 in Teterow ) is a former German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the council of the district of Neubrandenburg .

Life

Garling, the son of a housemaid, attended elementary school until 1940 . From April 1940 to March 1943 he completed an apprenticeship in the Teterow city ​​administration and attended a commercial vocational school. In April 1943 he became a member of the NSDAP . From April 1943 to May 1945 Garling did military service with the Wehrmacht , as a non-commissioned officer he was taken prisoner by the US in 1945 . From January 1946 to June 1947 he was then a Belgian prisoner of war and had to work in a mine in Charleroi .

After returning to his hometown in July 1947 he became an employee in the finance department of the Teterow city administration (until 1952). In October 1948 Garling joined the SED. From 1952 to 1954 he was head of the finance department at the Malchin County Council . From 1954 to 1960 he was then chairman of the Malchin County Council.

Garling first completed direct studies (1956/57), then from 1958 to 1960 distance learning to become a graduate political scientist at the German Academy for Political and Legal Science in Potsdam-Babelsberg . In 1960/61 he took part in a special course of the Central Committee for leading state officials in Schmöckwitz . From 1961 to 1964 Garling was chairman of the council of the Pasewalk district , from 1964 to 1966 first secretary of the Pasewalk district leadership of the SED. From September 1966 to February 1967 he acted as first deputy, then from March 1967 to February 1972 as chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district.

At the meeting of the secretariat of the SED district leadership on February 17, 1972, Garling was given leave of absence. After an investigation by the Central Party Control Commission , on April 4, 1972, the Politburo agreed to the submission of the Central Committee's Secretariat of February 27, 1972, to release Garling from all functions because of “impartial behavior”: Garling had “concealed his membership of the former NSDAP, was insincere and has abused the trust placed in him. Its further application is carried out in an operation in the district of Rostock, which reports to the Economic Council. "Then Garling was to 1989 director of the company Grimmen of clothes works Greifswald or work clothes director of works complaints , he was pensioned.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1968)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 82.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 98.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 210.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 324.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED squad: the middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , pp. 194f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany of March 30, 1967
2. ↑ New Germany of April 4, 1968.