Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (politicians)

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Egbert von Frankenberg (2nd from right) between the alleged Bundeswehr deserter Bruno Winzer (right) and Adolf Deter (left) on July 8, 1960 at a press conference in East Berlin . The event, controlled by the Ministry for State Security and moderated by Frankenberg, was intended to draw the world's attention to the “aggression plans of the Bonn General Staff”

Egbert Wilhelm Erwin von Frankenberg and Proschlitz (born March 20, 1909 in Strasbourg , † March 15, 2000 in Berlin ) was a major in the Wehrmacht and later a party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD .

Life

Egbert von Frankenberg came from a noble Silesian officer family and was the second eldest son of the later major general Werner von Frankenberg and Proschlitz . After graduating from high school and studying meteorology , he completed a pilot training course in 1935 . He was then taken over by the Air Force . In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP and in 1932 the SS .

As a member of the Condor Legion , he fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the putschists against the Republican troops. In 1941 he was group leader of the III. Group of the Kampfgeschwader 77 . During the war against the Soviet Union , he became a major and commodore of Kampfgeschwader 51 in 1943 and was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He belonged to the National Committee for Free Germany and was a founding member of the Association of German Officers . He was a co-signer of the founding documents and the “Appeal to the German Generals and Officers! An Volk und Wehrmacht! ”Of September 12, 1943. In 1948 he was released into the Soviet occupation zone .

In 1949 Frankenberg became a member of the NDPD , from 1951 to 1990 he was a member of the party's main committee. He exercised various full-time party functions, was from 1949 to 1951 political managing director (2nd chairman) of the NDPD in Thuringia and 1951/52 regional chairman in Berlin. After the districts were formed in the GDR, he was chairman of the NDPD district association in Berlin in 1952/53. From 1951 he was also deputy chairman of the committee of the National Front of East Berlin, from 1954 he was a lecturer at the NDPD university in Waldsieversdorf .

In the state elections in 1950 he was elected a member of the Thuringian state parliament and had been vice-president there since November 3, 1950. On October 31, 1951, he replaced Heinz Neukirchen as a member of the NDPD parliamentary group and Berlin representative in the People's Chamber , but resigned his mandate on April 21, 1954. He was a member of the Berlin City Council (SIA) and, since February 1953, chairman of the Permanent Commission for Health Care of the SIA.

In 1957 he received his doctorate on Weapons of Mass Destruction: Some Military-Political and International Law Considerations , in 1989 he completed his habilitation with the thesis In the interest of world peace and international security on the armed forces under the UN flag. Since 1957 he was also the military-political commentator of the radio of the GDR .

Frankenberg was president of the motor racing section of the GDR from December 1952 , and from 1957 to 1978 first president of the ADMV of the GDR. In 1979 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in gold and in 1984 with the VVO in gold.

Fonts

  • At your command . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1951.
  • The weapons of mass destruction. Some military-political and international law considerations . Publishing house of the Ministry for National Defense, Berlin 1958.
  • My decision . German military publisher, Berlin 1963.
  • Tradition in cross-examination. My family in history . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1980.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Luftwaffe officers 1939–1945.
  2. ^ DRAFD-Wiki: Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , July 21, 1951, p. 1.
  4. ^ Neue Zeit , November 4, 1950, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 22, 1954, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland , February 14, 1953, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Frankenberg and Proschlitz, Egbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankenberg and Proschlitz, Egbert Wilhelm Erwin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2000
Place of death Berlin