Alfred Dahl
Alfred Dahl (born March 5, 1916 in Erfurt ; † November 7, 2011 ) was a German police officer. He was chief of the district authorities of the German People's Police (BDVP) in Magdeburg and Leipzig .
Life
Dahl, the son of a working-class family, learned to be a roofer by 1933 after attending an elementary school in Erfurt and then worked in the profession. In the same year when his mother joined the KPD , he became a member of the Jungspartakusbund.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted into a railway construction column of the Wehrmacht and had to lay rails, build bridges and repair destroyed stations in Poland, France, Spain, the Soviet Union and Italy. The war finally brought him back to the Rhineland via Belgium and Holland. Since December 1944 he was in a hospital in Hanau and left in April 1945. He made his way to Weißensee in Thuringia , where his fiancée Uschi lived, whom he had met in 1942 by post . Two days later, Weißensee was occupied by American troops. He became a US prisoner of war , which he spent in Bad Kreuznach until June 1945 .
After returning to Erfurt, he first worked as a roofer. He was recruited to the police by Erfurt's mayor, Hermann Jahn , and on November 1, 1945 began his service as a member of the German People's Police. After four weeks of training at the Thuringian State Police School, he was assigned to the 3rd Erfurt police station and initially performed patrol duty. On January 1, 1946, he took over the group post in Gispersleben as sergeant . In April 1946 he became a member of the SED . In October 1946 he was appointed lieutenant and deputy police director of Langensalza and in June 1947 head of the VP district headquarters in Langensalza. After four months of attending the higher police school in Berlin, he was promoted to the police council and appointed head of the VP district directorate in Gotha . Just a month later, he was promoted to the senior police officer and appointed head of the VP district office in Saalfeld . After the founding of the GDR , he went to Arnstadt in October 1949 and in 1950 to Jena . With the formation of districts in the GDR and the creation of district authorities of the DVP in mid-1952, he finally became the first head of the BDVP Suhl with the rank of VP inspector. From August 1953 to 1960 he was head of the BDVP Magdeburg (successor to the deposed chief inspector Herbert Paulsen ). When the police ranks were changed on July 15, 1957, he received the rank of colonel of the VP. In 1960 he again attended the Higher Police School in Berlin and then the Friedrich Engels Military Academy in Dresden . From 1962 to 1972 he was head of the BDVP Leipzig (successor to Colonel Fritz Hoppe ). At the same time he was a member of the Leipzig District Assembly, a member of the SED district leadership, chairman of the district organization of the Dynamo sports association and a member of the council at the Ministry of the Interior . On the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the German People's Police on July 1, 1964, by resolution of the GDR Council of Ministers , he was appointed major general in recognition of his services.
His service time ended in 1972, he initially lived as a veteran in Leipzig and finally in Wildau near Königs Wusterhausen . Dahl was a member of the initiative community for the protection of social rights .
Awards
- June 30, 1955 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1976 in gold
- 1964 Artur Becker Medal in gold
- 1968 Honorary title Honored People's Police of the German Democratic Republic
literature
- Publication of the Ministry of the Interior, Life and Struggle in the Service of the People, Literary Portraits, Berlin 1986, Vol. 2
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany from July 1, 1964
- ^ New Germany of June 26, 1976
- ↑ Congratulations from ISOR.Retrieved October 11, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahl, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general of the VP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2011 |