Dietrich Besler

Dietrich Besler (born November 22, 1919 in Posen ) was a German LPG chairman, party functionary of the SED and the DBD block party . He was state minister in Brandenburg , a member of the Brandenburg state parliament , the state chamber and the people 's chamber of the GDR .

Life

Besler was born as the son of a farmer in Poznan, then part of Poland. After elementary school and an agricultural apprenticeship from 1933 to 1936, he worked in his parents' farm until 1937. He was then drafted into the Wehrmacht and remained in it until 1941, when he was dismissed for being unfit for war. Besler worked as a farmer again until he fled the Red Army. He first ended up in the community of Fröhden in the Jüterbog district, where he became a new farmer due to the land reform and was later also the local mayor.

In 1946 he first joined the SED. With the admission of the peasant party DBD in the spring of 1948, this party needed enough functionaries to be effective in the territory of the Soviet occupation zone. It was not uncommon for SED members to take on functions in the DBD like the first party chairman Ernst Goldenbaum or Dietrich Besler. He co-founded and chaired the DBD district association in the Jüterbog district and also led the Jüterbog VdgB district association . In 1949 he took over the post of managing director of the DBD regional association Brandenburg. As a result of this post, Besler became one of two members of the Brandenburg state parliament in the spring of 1950, although initially only with an advisory vote. The parties NDP and DBD, newly founded in 1948, allowed MPs with an advisory vote in all GDR state parliaments in 1950. The DBD state chairman Rudolf Albrecht had already been a member of the state parliament since 1946 with the mandate of the VdgB.

After the state elections in October 1950, in which Besler ran for the DBD, he was one of six DBD members of the Brandenburg state parliament until it was dissolved in July 1952. In addition, the state parliament sent him to the state chamber as one of ten representatives of the state the GDR, in which he was elected one of four deputies to the President of the Länderkammer. On November 29, 1950, Besler was also presented as State Minister for Agriculture and Forestry under Prime Minister Rudolf Jahn . In order to meet the technical requirements, especially in the ministerial office, Besler took up distance learning at the newly founded German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR) "Walter Ulbricht" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, which he finished in 1956. After the dissolution of the states of the GDR in the summer of 1952, Besler initially only retained his mandate in the regional chamber and, as a result of his state parliament mandate, membership in the Potsdam district assembly until 1954 .

In 1953 he got a full-time position on the party board of the DBD, where he headed the organization department until 1956. In 1954 Besler ran for the DBD for the first time in the Volkskammer election. Subsequently he was a member of the GDR parliament until 1976, from 1958 as a Berlin representative.

After completing his studies, Besler took over as chairman of the LPG “1. May ”in Berlin-Wartenberg . This was founded in April 1953 as one of the first agricultural production cooperatives as an amalgamation of gardeners and farmers on the site of a Berlin city estate and subsequently developed into one of the best-known and most powerful LPGs in the country. In 1962 it was honored as one of the five most powerful LPGs in the GDR. This was also expressed in October of the same year when the National Prize for Science and Technology III was awarded. Great to the leadership collective of the LPG, which Besler also belonged to. Above all, the industrial cultivation of vegetables of all kinds in large greenhouse complexes made the LPG a model company.

As a result of this prominent position, Besler, who switched back to the SED in 1958, became a member of the SED district leadership in Berlin in 1963, to which he was a member until 1979. In 1975 he gave up the LPG chairmanship.

Honors

• 1959 Honorary Title Hero of Labor
• 1962 National Prize for Technology and Science III. Class (in the collective)
• 1975 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

literature

• The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 4th electoral period. Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1972, p. 197.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 22.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 15, 1962, p. 1.
2. ^ New Germany of October 7, 1962, p. 5.
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 18, 1978, p. 3.
4. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 4, 1959, p. 5.
5. ^ New Germany of October 1, 1975, p. 5.