Bernhard Grünert

Bernhard Grünert 1952

Bernhard Grünert (born August 3, 1906 in Bergen , Schweidnitz district , Lower Silesia ; † October 21, 1997 ) was a SED politician who , among other things, was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg between 1950 and 1952 and chairman of the agricultural production cooperative from 1952 to 1975 ( LPG) Thomas Müntzer in What was in.

Life

Vocational training, KPD functionary and World War II

Grünert, the son of a farm worker, first worked as a farm worker after completing the one-class village school and then completed vocational training as a bricklayer between 1922 and 1925 . During this time he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) in 1923 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1925 , where he was the organizational leader of a local group and later a member of the KPD district leadership of Wroclaw . He worked from 1925 to 1933 as a bricklayer and casual workers, and after a temporary detention after the seizure of power by the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1933 in the years 1934 to 1940 mainly as construction workers on construction sites.

It was during the Second World War in 1940 for military service in the army drafted and finally the sergeant promotion. After his capture, he was a US prisoner of war before he managed to escape to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) in December 1945 .

Member of the state parliament in Brandenburg and LPG chairman

Afterwards Grünert first worked as a construction worker again and in March 1946 he became a new farmer in Worin in the Lebus district . After joining the SED in 1946, he began his political career there as chairman of the local committee of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) and as mayor of Gusow in 1946 and 1948. At the same time, in 1947 he was chairman of the district committee of the VdgB in the district Lebus and in 1949 as a member of the SED district executive in the Lebus district, which became the Seelow district in 1950 , as well as the SED state executive of Brandenburg . After graduating from the Edwin Hoernle Farmer's College in Paretz between September and December 1950 , he became a member of the Brandenburg state parliament in the elections on October 15, 1950, and was a member of it until it was dissolved in 1952.

On June 27, 1952, Grünert was one of the founders of the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) Thomas Müntzer in Worin, one of the first LPGs in the GDR. As the author of its statute, which later became the basis of the model statute for the LPG Type I, he was a participant in the First Conference of Chairmen and Activists of Agricultural Production Cooperatives in December 1952. He was commissioned by the conference to represent the model statutes adopted there before the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic . In the following period he was chairman of LPG Thomas Müntzer until 1975 , which developed into a large LPG in 1969 after the cooperation between the individual smaller LPGs was promoted with the aim of achieving greater concentration and specialization in production.

Central Committee member and awards

In addition to his role as LPG chairman, he was also the deputy chairman of the central board of the VdgB from 1954 to 1957 and was elected a member of the Central Committee at the 4th  party congress of the SED from March 30 to April 6, 1954 , to which he was elected until the IX. Belonged to the party congress from May 18 to 22, 1976, at which he was not re-elected . At the same time, Grünert, who took part in numerous delegation trips to Comecon member countries , was a member of the SED district leadership of the Frankfurt (Oder) district between 1956 and 1981 . In 1952 he was awarded the title of state-certified farmer. At the same time, he acted as chairman of the district agricultural council in the Frankfurt (Oder) district between 1963 and 1965 and from 1963 to 1972 as a member of the GDR's agricultural council and the GDR's resulting council for agricultural production and food industry.

For his longstanding services, he was awarded the Bronze Patriotic Order of Merit on August 29, 1956, the Gold Patriotic Order of Merit on September 14, 1966, and the Karl Marx Order in 1968 , the most important and highly endowed Order of Merit in the GDR. In 1981 he received the honor bar for the Patriotic Order of Merit. Most recently, Grünert, who was chairman of the VdgB district board in the Frankfurt (Oder) district in 1982, was awarded the Star of Friendship of Nations in 1986 .

literature

• Klaus Schlehufer: Bernhard Grünert: a pioneer of socialist agriculture in the GDR , Berlin 1983.
• Siegfried Kuntsche :  Grünert, Bernhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

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