Arnold Zimmermann

Arnold Zimmermann (born October 2, 1922 in Altendambach ; † April 21, 2015 in Suhl ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the Suhl district council and a candidate for the central committee of the SED .

Life

Zimmermann, the son of a shoemaker and a housewife, attended elementary and vocational school . He completed an apprenticeship as an administrative clerk from 1937 to 1939. 1940/41 he worked in the Suhl district administration . On September 1, 1940, Zimmermann joined the NSDAP . In February 1941 he was drafted first for the Reich Labor Service and in December 1941 for military service in the Wehrmacht . As a non-commissioned officer he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in April 1945 , from which he was released in October 1945.

From October 1945 to 1951 he worked as an employee and head of the personnel department in the Suhl district council. In December 1945 Zimmermann joined the SPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. From November 1950 to February 1951 he attended a management course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR) and was then from October 1951 to July 1952 management leader at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Thuringia in Erfurt . From August 1952 to April 1956 he worked as secretary, from April 1956 to September 1961 as chairman of the Suhl district council. Between 1953 and 1958 Zimmermann completed a distance learning course at the DASR in Potsdam-Babelsberg with a degree in law.

From October 1961 to August 1963 he was secretary of the Suhl District Council and a member of the Suhl District Assembly. From September 1963 to August 1965 he studied at the industrial institute of the TH Ilmenau with a degree in engineering and economics . In September 1965 Zimmermann became first deputy chairman and from July 1967 to May 1990 he was chairman of the Suhl district council. At the same time he was a member of the office or the secretariat of the SED district leadership. From September 1965 to May 1990 he was again a member of the Suhl district assembly. Zimmermann was also a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED from June 1971 to December 1989 .

He was a member of the PDS or a member of the Die Linke party . Zimmermann retired in May 1990 and died in April 2015 at the age of 92.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1969) and in silver (1972)
• Gold Star of Friendship of Nations (1982)
• Karl Marx Order (1987)

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. 369.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . Reichmann, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-923137-00-1 , p. 415.
• 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. 385.
• 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. 1047.
• Andreas Herbst:  Zimmermann, Arnold . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann, Andreas Herbst (ed.): SED-Kader: 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 , p. 542.
• Norbert Moczarski : Arnold Zimmermann Chairman of the Suhl District Council from 1967–1990. An administrative specialist in the service of the SED. In: Thuringian and Rhenish research. Bonn-Koblenz-Weimar-Meiningen. Festschrift for Johannes Mötsch on his 65th birthday. Edited by Norbert Moczarski and Katharina Witter. Salier Verlag Leipzig and Hildburghausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943539-23-3 , pp. 463-480.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice .
2. ^ New Germany , October 6, 1982, p. 2.