Arthur Pieck
Arthur Heinrich Walter Pieck (born December 28, 1899 in Bremen , † January 13, 1970 in Berlin-Biesdorf ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED ) and general director of Interflug .
Life
The trained typesetter was a son of the politician and later GDR President Wilhelm Pieck . As a youth in 1916 he became a member of the Spartakusbund and the opposition workers' youth . After being charged with high treason and treason in 1917, he emigrated to the Netherlands for several months. He took part in the founding party congress of the KPD. From 1922 to 1923 Pieck worked as an employee of the Soviet trade agency in Berlin . In 1923 he was a member of the federal management of the workers' hiking association " Friends of Nature ". In 1925/26 he headed the Berlin agitprop group “Red Blouses”.
After he took over the management of the Workers 'Theater Association of Germany (ATBD) in 1927 , he co-founded the International Workers' Theater Association (IATB) in 1929 (from 1932: International Revolutionary Theater Association IRTB). Together with Erwin Piscator , he was to set up a Western European office of the IRTB in Paris from 1936. He was close friends with Piscator and Gustav von Wangenheim and was also well known to Hanns Eisler , Alfred Kurella , John Heartfield , Erwin Geschonneck and other writers and actors.
From 1938 Pieck worked in the Moscow press department of the Communist International , and from 1941 he served as an officer in the Political Headquarters of the Red Army ; Among other things, he carried out educational work at the front and in prisoner-of-war camps.
As an interpreter for the later Berlin city commandant Nikolai Erastowitsch Bersarin , he returned to Germany with his 5th shock army, where he quickly made a career in the administration of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Pieck joined the Ulbricht group and was responsible for personnel issues and administration in the Magistrate of Greater Berlin established by the Soviet military administration on May 19, 1945 , to which he belonged until 1946. In November 1945 he married Margarete Lohbeck (1902–1952) in Berlin. Subsequently, he was, among other things, head of the administration and human resources department in the German Economic Commission and from 1949 head of the main office for human resources and training at the government.
In 1955 he advanced to the position of General Director of the airline Deutsche Lufthansa (Ost) and later Interflug , although he was more politically than technically qualified for this task . From 1961 to 1965 he was Deputy Minister of Transport and Head of the Central Administration for Civil Aviation.
On May 6, 1955, Pieck was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Pieck retired in May 1965; he died in January 1970 in Berlin-Biesdorf. His urn was buried in the "Pergolenweg" grave complex of the Socialist Memorial at the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenberg . In his second marriage he was born with Johanna Pieck. Rattey (1905–1979) married.
literature
- Lutz Heuer: Arthur Pieck (1899–1970). A life in the shadow of the father . trafo verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-539-3
- Oliver Kersten: The Friends of Nature movement in the Berlin-Brandenburg region 1908–1989 / 90. Continuities and breaks. Naturfreunde-Verlag Leisure and Hiking, Berlin 2007 (additional dissertation Freie Universität Berlin 2004), pp. 115 f., 123, 215 f., 309 ISBN 978-3-925311-31-4
- Peter Erler : Pieck, Arthur . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Pieck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Breunig: Constitution in Berlin 1945–1950 (= contributions to political science , volume 58). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06965-X , pp. 53, 58.
- ^ Bundesarchiv Berlin , Findbuch NY 4130 : Pieck, Arthur . Inventory signature NY 4130/87: Materials by and about Margarete Pieck geb. Lohbeck .
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↑ condolences Walter Ulbricht and Willi Stoph to comrade Johanna Pieck. In: Neues Deutschland , January 16, 1970, p. 6;
Bundesarchiv Berlin, Findbuch NY 4130: Pieck, Arthur . Inventory signature NY 4130/88: Materials by and about Johanna Pieck geb. Raty .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pieck, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pieck, Arthur Heinrich Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SED), General Director of Interflug |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1970 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Biesdorf |