Erich Knorr

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Erich Knorr (born October 24, 1912 in Claußnitz ; † September 23, 2012 in Chemnitz ) was a German politician ( KPD , SED , Die Linke ) and a functionary of the GDR farmers' organization, Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB).

Life

Knorr, the son of a worker, grew up in the Ore Mountains and completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1927. In 1927 he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ), in 1931 the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and in 1932 the KPD and became a member of the Red Front Fighters League . After the National Socialists came to power , he continued his work as political director of the illegal KPD sub-district Burgstädt and was involved in building up a KPD group in Chemnitz. He was arrested in July 1935 and sentenced on September 30, 1936 to five years and three months in prison. He spent his time in prison in Zwickau and in Waldheim . After his release in 1940, he continued to work illegally. During the Second World War he was drafted into the Penal Battalion 999 in February 1943 . Here, too, he did anti-fascist work and joined the resistance group of Karl König . During a stay in a hospital he managed to escape and return to Saxony at the end of April 1945.

After the end of the war, Knorr founded the Antifa committee in his hometown Claussnitz and became the first post-war mayor. In September 1945 he became head of the Department Agriculture in the district office and Rochlitz was from 1 February 1946 to 1948 District Administrator of the district Rochlitz . In this role he was committed to the care and integration of the numerous refugees and resettlers and suggested the construction of the village of Neurochlitz in the Uckermark. From 1949 to 1950 he was also the cultural director of the MAS state administration in Saxony and then took over the management of the Quedlinburg seed breeding operations .

In July 1950, Erich Knorr became deputy general secretary of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB) and, as head of the Western Department, worked on the constitution and work of the German working group for agriculture and forestry. Three years later, he took over the post of General Secretary of the Central Board of VdgB as the successor to Kurt Vieweg . He was also a member of the National Council of the National Front from 1954 to 1958 . Due to " revisionist views ", however, Knorr was given leave of absence at the end of 1957 and removed from office in July 1958.

In 1958, Knorr began studying at the LPG University of Meissen . From 1959 to 1962 he was chairman of the council of the Güstrow district , but also lost this position because of “liberalism in management”. Then he worked until his early retirement as a teacher at the SED district party schools in Güstrow and Mittweida and devoted himself to journalistic tasks.

In December 1989 Knorr was a delegate at the extraordinary party congress of the SED / PDS and became a member of the council of the elderly in the party executive of the PDS. In 2010 his party elected him as the elector of the 14th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President. At the age of 97 he was the oldest delegate of the Federal Assembly.

Honors

  • 1958 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

Fonts

  • The Moscow Conference and the next tasks of the VdgB (BHG): Resolutions of the 5th meeting of the Central Board of the Association of Mutual Peasant Aid (1955)
  • Big days of the small farmers: diary sheets from the democratic land reform (1956)
  • Sachsenburg. Documents and Memories (1994)
  • Penal soldier in war and post-war: 29 months Penalty Battalion 999 (2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in Protocol No. 39/58 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.
  2. ↑ Ronny Schilder: A long journey into nowhere. Resettlers from Saxony stamped the village of Neurochlitz in the Uckermark out of the ground in 1949 , in: Sächsische Zeitung of January 7, 2015, p. 3
  3. ^ Eva Prase: Chemnitzer is the oldest elector , in: Freie Presse, edition of June 30, 2010 online
  4. ^ New Times of October 7, 1958, see. 5
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (KPD, SED, Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Claussnitz
DATE OF DEATH 23rd September 2012
Place of death Chemnitz