Alois Melz

Alois Melz (born July 23, 1923 in Deutsch Breile , Province of Silesia , † January 22, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party DBD .

Life

Melz did military service , was taken prisoner by the Soviets and, like Hans Rietz, attended the Antifa Central School in Ogre near Riga in 2040 . Melz later worked as an assistant at various Antifa schools. In 1949 he returned to Germany and in 1950 joined the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD). Melz was a member of the DBD party executive committee from 1951 to 1977 and a member of its presidium between 1953 and 1963.

Melz studied social sciences and was a graduate teacher for Marxism-Leninism . In 1951 he was appointed as Rietz's successor to head the central DBD party school " Thomas Müntzer " in Borkheide near Potsdam , of which he remained director until 1968. Then he worked there as deputy director. From 1979 he headed the DBD educational institution in Leipzig .

He died on January 22, 2012 at the age of 88 in Berlin.

literature

• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 533.
• Hans Reichelt : recorder or what? The history of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) 1948 to 1990 . Edition Ost , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-929-16183-4 , passim.
• Theresia Bauer: Block Party and Agrarian Revolution from Above. The Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, 1948–1963. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56703-9 , passim.