Bruno Brockhoff

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Bruno Brockhoff (born October 13, 1903 in Bielefeld ; † September 1, 1949 in Neuruppin ) was a German SED functionary and a member of the Brandenburg state parliament.

Life

After attending elementary and advanced training school, Brockhoff worked as a construction worker and driver. In 1921 he joined the USPD . In 1924 he joined the SPD , which he left in 1932. Since 1933 he was a member of the KPD .

After the National Socialists seized power , he took part in the resistance and was arrested in November 1933 and sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in prison in 1934. After serving his sentence, he was sent to a concentration camp until 1936 . During the Second World War he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In August 1942 he and 35 others defected to the Red Army . During the Soviet captivity from 1943 to 1944 he attended several anti-fascist courses in the USSR and graduated from school No. 12 in Schodna .

In 1945 he returned to the Soviet occupation zone and became a member of the KPD state committee in Brandenburg and there secretary for agitation and propaganda . He was instrumental in setting up the state party school in Schmerwitz . Brockhoff took part in the joint party convention of the Brandenburg SPD and KPD on April 7, 1946 in Potsdam and was elected to the executive committee and, together with Karl Gadow, secretary for advertising and training as well as for youth issues. On 21/22 In April 1946 he took part as a delegate in Berlin at the unification congress of the SPD and KPD to the SED .

From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Brandenburg State Parliament and from 1946 to 1947 a member of the Legal and Constitutional Committee, from June 1949 chairman of the Committee for Culture and Popular Education there.

Brockhoff was most recently a member of the Brandenburg State Board of the SED and head of the party training, culture and education department. He died of a heart attack at the age of 45 on September 1, 1949, during a rally in Neuruppin.

Honors

  • A street in Neuruppin is named after him.

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber [eds.]: SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, pp. 340, 374 and 878.
  • Werner Bethge, Kurt Finker, Kurt Libera: Union of SPD and KPD in the province of Brandenburg in 1946 . PDS regional association, Potsdam 1996, pp. 26 and 34.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . Lit, Münster 2002, p. 921.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comrade Bruno Brockhoff has passed away . In: Neues Deutschland , September 4, 1949, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Brockhoff, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1949
Place of death Neuruppin