Alois groom
Alois Bräutigam (born April 28, 1916 in Grünlas , Böhmen , † January 10, 2007 ) was a German politician ( KPTsch / SED ) and a functionary of the people's solidarity .
Life
Bridegroom, son of a miner , trained as a bricklayer from 1929 to 1932 after attending primary school in Neusattl , after which he worked both in this profession and as a miner . In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association, in 1932 a member of the Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit and in 1934 a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPTsch) and the League of Friends of the Soviet Union . From 1937 to 1938 he was in the Czechoslovak Army . After a short period of unemployment, he served in the Wehrmacht from January to April 1939. At the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 he was drafted again into the Wehrmacht and did military service in an artillery regiment . He took part in the French campaign in May / June 1940 . After falling ill, he was released from the front in February 1942 and last had the rank of corporal . Until 1945 he worked again as a miner in a clay pit and in 1944/45 he participated in the illegal political work against the Nazi regime as a member of the local resistance movement in Neusattl.
After the end of the war he was head of the Antifa office in Neusattl and in 1945/1946 in the Czechoslovak police service. In 1946 he moved to Schmalkalden in the Soviet zone of occupation . In February 1946 he joined the KPD , in April 1946 he became a member of the SED. From July 1946 to January 1947 he was a police officer (sergeant) at the VP district office in Schmalkalden and from 1946 to 1949 a city councilor in Schmalkalden. In 1947 he worked full-time in the SED, initially as a political employee and chairman of the SED district committee in Schmalkalden. From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia . From July 1949 to November 1950 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Arnstadt , from November 1950 to 1951 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Weimar . 1951/52 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" . From January to May 1953 he was then head of the state organs department of the SED district leadership in Erfurt . From June 1953 to 1954 he was first secretary of the SED city administration in Erfurt and city councilor there. From December 1954 to June 1958 he acted as first secretary of the SED area leadership in Wismut and from June 1958 to April 1980 as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Erfurt (successor to Hermann Fischer ). From 1958 to 1981 he was a member of the SED district leadership in Erfurt and from 1963 to 1981 a member of the Erfurt district assembly . From July 1958 to December 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1958 to 1981 he was a member of the SED parliamentary group in the People's Chamber and from 1963 to September 1971 a member of the National Defense Council of the GDR .
In 1981/82 he was deputy chairman and from June 1982 to December 1989 - as successor to Robert Lehmann - chairman of the Central Committee of People's Solidarity.
After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , Bräutigam withdrew from public life. He died in early 2007 and was buried in the Erfurt main cemetery.
Honors
- National Front Badge of Honor (1957)
- Gold badge of honor of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (1957)
- Medal of Merit of the GDR (1960)
- Labor Banner (1964)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver and Gold (1966)
- Karl Marx Order (1976)
- Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1981)
- Friendship of Nations (1986)
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 45.
- 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. 32.
- Jan Foitzik: Management transfer. The organized deployment of Sudeten German communists in the Soviet occupation zone 1945/46. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 31 (1983), pp. 308–334 (on Bräutigam: especially p. 326).
- 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. 82.
- Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 905.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Bridegroom, Alois . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Armin Wagner : Walter Ulbricht and the secret security policy of the SED. The National Defense Council of the GDR and its history (1953–1971). Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-280-8 , p. 226ff.
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 126.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alois Bräutigam in the catalog of the German National Library
Kurt Böhme (1947–1951) | Horst Dohlus (1951) | Günther Röder (1951–1954) | Alois Groom (1954–1958) | Rolf Weihs (1958–1960) | Kurt Kieß (1960–1970) | Alfred Rohde (1971–1989) | Heinz Friday (1989)
Erich Mückenberger (1952–1953) | Hans Kiefer (1953–1957) | Hermann Fischer (1957–1958) | Alois Groom (1958–1980) | Gerhard Müller (1980–1989) | Herbert Kroker (1989–1990)
Helmut Lehmann (1946–1959) | Jenny Matern (1959–1960) | Walter Buchheim (1961–1972) | Robert Lehmann (1972–1982) | Alois Groom (1982–1989) | Jost Biedermann (1990-2002) | Gunnar Winkler (2002–2014) | Wolfram Friedersdorff (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bridegroom, Alois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdV |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünlas (Loučky), Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2007 |