Arthur Ploog
Arthur Ploog (born June 17, 1904 in Lübeck , † July 26, 1993 in Berlin ) was the main director of Volk und Wissen Verlag, a publisher of school books in the GDR .
Life
youth
Arthur Ploog was born as the son of the tailor Wilhelm Ploog and his wife Luise. Coiners born. He grew up with two siblings in a social-democratic and union- oriented family. In 1906 the family moved to Leipzig because the father became the union manager of the Association of Tailors, Dressmakers and Laundry Workers (VSSW). From 1912 he was Gauleiter of the Association for Saxony, Thuringia and Anhalt. In connection with the election of the father to the main board of the VSSW, the family moved to Berlin in 1919 .
First years of employment
Ploog learned the profession of typesetter , was “ on the roll ” for three years and from 1927 worked as a manufacturer, businessman, buyer, designer and business applicant. In 1931 he married Ilse Schuster in Berlin, who came from a Jewish family in Dillingen . Through this " privileged marriage " he was able to protect her to a large extent from persecution by the Nuremberg Race Laws . After the war, the marriage ended in divorce.
Resistance and war
In connection with investigations by the Gestapo against the organization “ Neu Beginnen ”, Arthur and Ilse Ploog were arrested by the Gestapo on March 10, 1936 at their workplaces for preparation for high treason and taken to the Gestapo's house prison on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse (today Niederkirchnerstrasse ), later spent the Columbiahaus concentration camp . After 10 days, both were released on March 20 because they could not have proven that they had committed a crime.
In 1939 Ploog was drawn into the Wehrmacht and used as a radio operator. In January 1945 he was dismissed due to his Jewish wife for so-called “ unworthiness for military service” and drafted into the “ Volkssturm ” at the end of the war .
After the war
After the war, Ploog co-founded, under the direction of Karl Hagemann, the Volk und Wissen Verlag , an educational publisher that produced almost exclusively all school books from the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . He was production manager, technical director and, after the previous chief director Karl Hagemann had been appointed deputy minister for culture in 1956, he assumed responsibility for the publishing house as chief director, which he held until his retirement on June 29, 1973. He married Hannelore Sieber geb. Willbrandt and had a son with her in 1952.
In 1956 he was appointed a member of the Artistic-Scientific Council at the Ministry of Culture , and later also of the College of the Ministry of Popular Education .
Honors
- 1951 National Prize 2nd class for science and technology (as a collective)
- 1960 Dr. Theodor Neubauer Medal in gold
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1969 Wilhelm Bracke Medal
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1979 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
- 1984 Silver Star of Friendship of Nations
- 1989 Gold Star of Friendship between Nations
literature
- Gert Hagelweide: Literature for the German-language press. (Dortmund contributions to newspaper research) KG Saur Munich 2007.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Jan Wielgohs, Dieter Hoffmann, Andreas Herbst, Ingrid Kirschey-Feix (eds.): Who was who in the GDR? A Lexicon of East German Biographies , Ch. Links, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b [1] Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship
- ↑ a b Neues Deutschland, Sat. June 30, 1973, Volume 28 / Issue 178 / Page 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ploog, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German schoolbook publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1993 |
| Place of death | Berlin |