Erhard Forgbert

Erhard Forgbert (born September 30, 1898 in Berlin ; † November 10, 1965 ibid) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and deputy head of the Landesbank Mecklenburg.

Life

Forgbert, son of a weaver family, attended elementary school . As an office boy, he attended evening classes and was from 1916 clerk . From the end of 1916 he had to fight as a soldier in the First World War. In April 1918 he was released from military service as a wounded man.

In 1920 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became an organ leader in the Berlin-Lichtenberg district . Forgbert worked at AEG Berlin and was also a member of the employee council there. In 1923 he was dismissed for political reasons and then worked as a freelance sales representative until 1926, and from 1926 for the Soviet trade agency. In 1929 Forgbert attended the International Lenin School in Moscow . After his return he became a full-time secretary and accountant / cashier of the KPD district leadership in Berlin-Brandenburg. From the end of 1932 he acted as secretary of the International Workers Aid (IAH) Berlin-Brandenburg and was a member of the Reich leadership of the IAH.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Forgbert took part in the KPD's resistance struggle. In April 1933 he was arrested together with Ewald Blau and Erich Krautter in Berlin-Lichtenberg and badly mistreated. On February 21, 1934 Forgbert was sentenced to two years and three months in prison by the Reichsgericht in Leipzig . After his release, he continued to work illegally. He had connections to Erich Rutha and to the resistance group around Alfred Kowalke and Wilhelm Knöchel . In February 1943 he was arrested again, but acquitted by the Berlin Higher Regional Court for "lack of evidence" and released in March 1944.

In August 1945 he was ordered to Schwerin by the Central Committee of the KPD to take on leading functions in the development of the banking system. From August 1945 to December 1947 and from March 1949 to 1951 he was deputy head or 2nd director of the Landesbank Mecklenburg and head of the branch of the German Central Bank Schwerin. In 1949 he acted as head of the office for state- owned enterprises in the Mecklenburg Ministry of Economics.

From 1946 to 1952 Forgbert was a member of the Mecklenburg Landtag, from 1946 to 1952 he was also a member of the state executive of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the state executive of the Free German Trade Union Confederation .

Forgbert, who as a candidate had also been a member of the Central Revision Commission of the SED since the summer of 1950, was dismissed from his functions in October 1951. The Central Party Control Commission initiated party proceedings against him because Forgbert had made critical comments on the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939/40. He received a probation assignment as commercial manager, which he carried out until November 1953, among others at VEB Hüttenwerk Halsbrücke .

At the end of 1953 Forgbert became a professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg and from 1958 was a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin with a teaching position and director of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism .

Fonts (selection)

• State-owned companies and private sector . Schwerin 1948.
• Short-term loan on a new basis . In: Deutsche Finanzwirtschaft , Heft 6 (1949), pp. 204ff.
• New working methods, a new working style are necessary in banking . In: Deutsche Finanzwirtschaft , issue 19/20 (1950), p. 348.
• The emergence of a new, democratic financial system . In: Historical Institute of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University (ed.): Liberation and a new beginning . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1966, pp. 231–238.

Awards

• Medal of Merit of the GDR (1963)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1963)
• Labor Banner (1964)

literature

• Office of the Landtag (ed.): Handbook for the Mecklenburg Landtag. 1st electoral term . Mecklenburger Verlag, Schwerin 1947, p. 75.
• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 91.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 74.
• Detlev Brunner : The state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under Soviet occupation from 1945 to 1949 . Volume 1: The appointed state administration, May 1945 to December 1946 . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 3-86108-367-1 , p. 631.
• Forgbert, Erhard . In: Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst (ed.): German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd revised and greatly expanded edition. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 , p. 257.

Web links

• Literature about Erhard Forgbert in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Erhard Forgbert in the state bibliography MV