Emil Frost

Emil Frost (born October 23, 1920 in Heiligenstein , East Prussia ; † March 25, 2003 ) was Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund .

He attended a grammar school in Leipzig until 1936 and, after serving in the Reich Labor Service in 1936/1937, was trained as an airplane pilot at Lufthansa in Berlin from 1937 to 1939 . In military service he was deployed in Poland , France , Norway and the Soviet Union , where he was taken prisoner of war on September 1, 1941 , he attended anti-fascist training courses while prisoner of war and from February 1944 worked on the front with the Soviet Army .

Emil Frost had worked as mayor in the new city administration under Lord Mayor Otto Kortüm since May 1945 by order of the front staff of the Second Belarusian Front after the capture of Stralsund . He was a member of the Communist Party (KPD) and later the Socialist Unity Party (SED). On May 6, 1945, Frost was appointed mayor by the Soviet city ​​commandant, replacing Otto Kortüm; on May 17, 1945 Otto Kortüm was reappointed Mayor and Emil Frost Mayor. After Otto Kortüm was finally dismissed from the office of Lord Mayor on August 27, 1945, the Soviet city command appointed Emil Frost as Lord Mayor.

On May 5, 1950, his successor, Hermann Salinger, was elected Lord Mayor by the city council.

Emil Frost moved from the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1961 and worked there until he retired in 1978. He was married and last lived in Neuhofen .

literature

• Herbert Ewe : History of the City of Stralsund , H. Böhlau, Weimar 1984
• M. Niemeyer: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , 1971 ( excerpt )