Anton Plenikowski

Anton Plenikowski (born November 19, 1899 in Sopot near Danzig , † March 3, 1971 in East Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ).

Life

Plenikowski, son of a working-class family, attended the seminar for preparation teachers in Langfuhr near Danzig. From 1916 to 1918 he did military service and in 1918 was a member of the soldiers' council in Breslau . He completed his teacher training in 1919. He worked as a teacher from 1920 .

From 1925 to 1928 he was community representative in Ließau . In 1926 he joined the SPD and a year later the KPD. From 1926 to 1930 he was a member of the Great Werder District Council ( Free City of Danzig ) and from 1928 to 1937 a member of the Danzig People's Day and chairman of the KPD parliamentary group. From 1929 he acted as organizational leader of the KPD sub-district of Danzig and full-time party functionary.

In 1937 he emigrated to Sweden . After differences with other members of the emigration leadership, initially isolated from party politics, Plenikowski headed the KPD party leadership in Stockholm in the last months of his exile .

In March 1946 Plenikowski returned to Germany in the Soviet Zone and became a member of the SED. From April to October 1946 he headed the State Politics and Home Affairs department of the Central Secretariat and the Central Committee of the SED , then from 1946 to 1954 the State Administration Department of the SED Central Committee. From 1954 he was deputy head, then from May 1956 to November 1963 head of the office of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers and State Secretary in the Council of Ministers of the GDR .

From 1950 to 1967 he was a member of the People's Chamber and from 1963 to 1967 chairman of its constitutional and legal committee. From 1963 to 1967 he was also chairman of the Interparliamentary Group . From 1954 to 1967 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED. In 1967 he left all functions at his own request.

Works

• The tasks of the party organizations in the judiciary . Dietz, Berlin 1952.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in silver (May 6, 1955) and in gold (1964)
• Labor Banner (1959)
• Medal of Merit of the GDR
• Karl Marx Order

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 996.
• Heike Amos: Administration of Justice in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Personnel policy from 1945 to the beginning of the 50s . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1996, p. 118 and passim.
• 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. 653.
• Michael F. Scholz : Would you like some Scandinavian experience? Post-exile and remigration. The former KPD emigrants in Scandinavia and their further fate in the Soviet Zone / GDR . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, p. 366 and passim., Online in the Google book search
• Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, p. 952.
• Michael Schwartz : Displaced Persons and “Resettlement Policy”. Integration conflicts in post-war German societies and assimilation strategies in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1961 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2004, p. 289f. and passim
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Plenikowski, Anton . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst : German communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 680.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 24, 1964, p. 3.