Arthur Killat
Arthur Killat , from 1970: Killat-von Coreth , (born November 20, 1912 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 11, 1999 in Düsseldorf ) was a German trade unionist and politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
After attending primary and secondary school, Killat completed a commercial apprenticeship with a connected traineeship in the hotel industry. He joined the Reichswehr in 1931 , worked as a sports trainer from 1936 to 1939, and in this role he worked at the Reichsakademie für physical exercises . From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was wounded several times, first promoted to sergeant-major and finally appointed lieutenant in the reserve.
After the end of the war, Killat, as a displaced person from East Prussia, moved to West Germany and settled in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1945/46 he was a founding member of the German Employees' Union (DAG) for the West-Holstein district, took up a position as secretary on the main board of the DAG Hamburg in 1946 and was state secretary of the DAG for Lower Saxony in 1947/48 . From 1949 to 1955 he acted as head of the salaried secretariat in the DGB federal executive committee in Düsseldorf. He was then deputy chairman of the Trade, Banks and Insurance Union (HBV) until 1961 .
politics
Killat joined the SPD and was 1946/47 chairman of the Young Socialists in the district association of the SPD Pinneberg / Elmshorn . He was later elected chairman of the SPD sub-district of Solingen . He belonged to the German Bundestag from March 19, 1959, when he replaced the late MP Fritz Heinrich , until 1972. From 1965 to 1972 he represented the constituency of Solingen in parliament.
Accused of being involved in the Stasi
The weekly newspaper Die Zeit accused Killat in its February 8, 2007 issue of spying for the HVA of the Ministry of State Security , the GDR's foreign intelligence service , in the 1960s and 1970s . Under the code name "Arthur Kaufmann" and the file number 18784/60, he reported to the Stasi reports on conferences and from areas in which he specialized. The Stasi-managed source "Arthur Kaufmann" had the same birthday as Killat and was classified as "reliable" in the Stasi files. After Killat's departure from the Bundestag, this source has largely dried up.
Helmut Müller-Enbergs has in rosewood . A source review (2007) named Killat as a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1972 under “at least ten” who had direct contact with the Stasi intelligence headquarters .
The BStU stated in 2013: "Killat [may] have been aware of the intelligence character of his GDR contacts."
Honors
Killat was awarded the First Class Cross of Merit and in 1972 the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Publications
- Employee tariff policy. A contribution to the discussion , Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1949.
- The employee insurance. A contemporary study , Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1952.
- Problem of a reform of the German social security , in: trade union monthly magazines , year 1953, pages 85-90.
- The employees , in: trade union monthly books , year 1954, pages 298-302.
- Action program on employee policy of the DGB , Düsseldorf 1954.
- 100 years of the SPD in Solingen , Solingen 1963.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit No. 24, June 4, 2009, p. 44 Spitzenquellen West , and Helmut Müller-Enbergs: "Rosenholz" A source criticism. (PDF) bstu.de, 2007, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
- ^ BStU : The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR. Report to the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, Berlin 2013, p. 228 ( PDF ( Memento of November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Killat, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Killat-by Coreth, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German trade unionists and politicians (SPD), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1999 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |