Carl Garz

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Carl Garz (* 1890 in Schwerin ; † December 29, 1955 in Cottbus ) was a German politician ( CDU ). From 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the German People's Council of the Soviet occupation zone and the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Garz, an optician and businessman by profession, was a photo dealer in Schwerin and in 1945 was one of the founders of the CDU state association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The CDU's first regional office was located in his residential and commercial building at 5 Lübecker Strasse. Garz was heavily involved in the organizational development of the CDU, represented its interests in the regional bloc committee of the anti-fascist parties and in the Soviet military administration of Mecklenburg. Due to his adaptability, he was soon considered a Soviet liaison. At the side of Reinhold Lobedanz , he brought the regional association on a pro-Soviet course after Jakob Kaiser was deposed .

From July 1945 to 1950 he was an assessor or member of the CDU state executive committee for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 1947 he was a member of the state denazification commission. From March 1948 to October 1949 he was a member of the German People's Council and from 1949 to October 1950 a member of the Provisional People's Chamber . In December 1948 he was elected to the plenary session of the German Economic Commission (DWK) by the Mecklenburg state parliament . In 1950 he retired from party work. The Ministry of State Security began monitoring Garz. In December 1952 he was arrested with his wife and children and sentenced to eight years in prison for alleged economic sabotage. The CDU district executive in Schwerin excluded Garz from the party, he was initially imprisoned in Bützow-Dreibergen and died in December 1955 in the Cottbus penal institution .

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 906.
  • Letter, Günter (ed.): Persecuted and disenfranchised. The elimination of Christian Democrats under Soviet occupation. A biographical documentation , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 127.
  • Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory: Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945-1953 , Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8305-2795-4 , p. 500.
  • Schwießelmann, Christian: The CDU in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 1945 to 1952. From the founding to the dissolution of the regional association: a representation of the history of the party , Düsseldorf 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Further country representatives for the DWK . In: Neue Zeit, December 15, 1948, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Garz, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1955
Place of death cottbus