Bernd Weinberger

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Bernd Weinberger (born August 4, 1904 in Edelény , Hungary ; † March 26, 1957 ) was a major general of the Barracked People's Police (KVP) of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

As the son of a businessman, Weinberger learned the profession of electrical engineer after attending school and studied at the Polytechnic in Friedberg (Hessen) . In 1929 he joined the KPD and did revolutionary work as an agitator, propagandist and editor in the Berlin party organization. During this time Weinberger worked as an electrical engineer until 1933, but then had to leave Germany because of illegal communist party work. He emigrated to the Soviet Union , first worked in Leningrad, later in Sverdlovsk as head of a technical laboratory. He was imprisoned from February 4, 1938 to the summer of 1939, later working again in Sverdlovsk, before returning to Berlin in 1947.

Here he joined the SED in the same year and until 1950 was the main department head of the German economic commission and head of the office of the prime minister and head of the reparations office . In 1950 he joined the armed organs of the GDR as a civilian , at that time the German People's Police . Subsequently, until 1952 he was head of the administration for contract matters in the Ministry of the Interior . In 1952 he became head of the office for economic questions and at the same time until 1953 Deputy Minister of the Interior for economic questions. In this function he was appointed major general of the KVP on October 1, 1952. On February 2, 1953, he was appointed Minister for Transport and Agricultural Machinery. He held this position until his dismissal in July 1953. However, he was reappointed head of the Reparations Office and remained in this office until the end of December 1953. After the government of the USSR had renounced all further reparations deliveries from the GDR by resolution of August 22, 1953, the tasks of the Reparations Office were ended on December 31, 1953. For his behavior on June 17 and 18, 1953 in the Rostock district, he received a severe reprimand on July 14, 1953 from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED "for surrendering to the enemy troublemakers". In October 1953, because of his behavior during the uprising of June 17, Weinberger was dismissed from military service and transferred, with the rank of general being withdrawn. Subsequently, as a civilian, from 1954 until his death, among other things, he was head of the office for scientific-technical cooperation of the State Planning Commission .

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland from March 28, 1957.
  2. ↑ Institute for the History of the Labor Movement (ed.): In the Fangs of the NKVD. Berlin: Dietz Verl., 1991, p. 251
  3. ↑ Torsten Dietrich, Hans Ehlert, Rüdiger Wenzke (ed.): In the service of the party. Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 714. ISBN 978-3861531609
  4. ^ New Germany of February 3, 1953.
  5. ^ New Germany of August 1, 1953.
  6. ^ New Germany of January 8, 1954
  7. ^ New Germany of July 19, 1953.
personal data
SURNAME Weinberger, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Major General of the KVP
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Edelény , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1957