Erich Hönisch

Erich Hönisch (born January 26, 1921 in Röllingshain near Chemnitz , † May 6, 1973 ) was a German politician ( SED ). Among other things, he was a member of the city ​​council of Berlin and second secretary of the SED district leadership for Greater Berlin.

Life

Hönisch came from a social democratic family. His father was a carpenter , his mother worked in a factory. His father was imprisoned after 1933 for illegal activity.

Hönisch attended elementary school . Between 1935 and 1938 he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in a construction business in Taura and attended vocational school . From 1938 to 1940 he worked as a carpenter in Magdeburg . In 1940 he was drafted as a worker for the Reich Labor Service , and in 1941 for the Wehrmacht . Hönisch came as a private in 1942 in Soviet captivity . He was imprisoned in several POW camps, most recently in camps 165 and 27/40, where he also attended the Antifa school .

In 1946 Hönisch returned to Germany, became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in September 1946. In 1947 he acted as youth secretary in the Rochlitz district executive, in 1948/49 he was youth secretary in the state executive committee of Saxony in Dresden and then in 1949/50 youth secretary in the party executive committee in Berlin. At times he headed the youth department of the central secretariat of the party executive committee. 1949/50 he was a member of the office of the Central Council of the FDJ.

1950/51 he was a political officer and commander in the main administration for training of the barracked people's police in Berlin. 1951/52 he studied at the party college of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow . From 1952 to 1959, Hönisch was a member of the secretariat of the Berlin District Committee of the National Front , and from April to June 1952 Secretary for Propaganda of the Berlin State Management. From June 29, 1952 to August 1953 he acted as second secretary, from August 1953 to February 1959 as secretary for agitation and propaganda of the Berlin district leadership of the SED. From 1956 to 1958 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front. Hönisch was appointed city councilor on February 13, 1953 when the East Berlin parliament met for its constituent meeting. In the elections in October 1954 and November 1958 he was elected to the Berlin city council. After his dismissal as secretary of the SED district leadership, he also gave up his mandate as a city councilor in 1959.

From 1959 to 1961 Hönisch acted as first secretary of the city district management IV in Karl-Marx-Stadt . Released from this position for "party-related reasons", he worked as a carpenter in the VEB Bau Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961/62 . From 1963 he headed the labor economics department in VE Housing Combine Karl-Marx-Stadt. After attending the adult education center (1963–1965), Hönisch studied at the engineering school for construction in Leipzig . He completed his studies in 1970 as an engineering economist.

literature

• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 144.
• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan et al. (Ed.): The parties and organizations of the GDR. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , p. 978.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 243 f .
• Mario Niemann:  Hönisch, Erich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Forward to the Second Party Conference of the SED . In: Neues Deutschland , July 1, 1952, p. 1.
2. ↑ People's representative elected magistrate . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 14, 1953, p. 1.