Erich Mückenberger
Erich Mückenberger (born June 8, 1910 in Chemnitz , † February 10, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and, as chairman, headed the Central Party Control Commission of the SED in the GDR .
Life
After attending elementary and middle school from 1924 to 1927, Mückenberger trained as a locksmith. In 1924 he joined the socialist workers' youth and was active as a youth leader, district and district youth leader in Chemnitz. In 1927 he became a member of the SPD .
From 1927 to 1928 he attended the higher technical college for the textile industry and worked as a locksmith and weaver until 1930. He was unemployed until 1933, after which he worked as a locksmith and machine setter.
From 1933 he worked illegally in Chemnitz. He was arrested in August 1935 and was in Sachsenburg concentration camp from November 1935 to August 1936 . After several trials, he was sentenced to ten months in prison for high treason in 1938 . In 1942 he was arrested again and was placed in a punitive battalion of the Wehrmacht , where he was wounded in January 1945. From April to August he was a British prisoner of war .
After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED, Mückenberger was a member of the SED. In 1946 he attended the SED state party school and was in the leadership of the SED city district of Chemnitz. In 1948 he attended the party college "Karl Marx" , but was recalled after three months and became first secretary of the SED state executive committee in Saxony . From 1949 to 1953 he was first secretary of the SED regional leadership in Thuringia and the SED district leadership in Erfurt .
Mückenberger was a member of the People's Chamber from 1950 to 1989, from 1958 to 1963 as a member of the Committee for Agriculture, Forestry and Food and from 1971 as a member of the Presidium and Chairman of the SED parliamentary group. Also from 1950 to 1989 he was a member of the Central Committee and a candidate, from 1958 a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. He was also a member of the Erfurt District Assembly from 1952 to 1954 and secretary of the Central Committee of the SED from 1953 to 1961.
In the 1960s, as Secretary for Agriculture, he was exposed to severe criticism, which he survived unscathed. From 1960 to 1961 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and was then first secretary of the SED district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) and from 1963 a member of the district parliament . From 1971 to 1989 he was the successor to Hermann Matern as chairman of the Central Party Control Commission at the Central Committee of the SED. As the successor to Lothar Bolz , he was President of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF) from 1978 until his resignation in November 1989 , and since 1963 he has been on the Presidium of the Friendship Society.
On November 8, 1989, Mückenberger resigned with the entire Politburo of the Central Committee, on 20/21. January 1990 he was expelled from the SED- PDS . A trial for manslaughter and joint responsibility at the border regime of the GDR was discontinued in August 1996 due to the inability to stand trial.
Mückenberger was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit (VVO) in gold in 1957, the VVO in gold in 1969 and the Karl Marx Order in 1970 and 1985 .
The cultural politician Joachim Mückenberger was his younger brother.
Fonts
- The political mass work in the village and the next tasks in agriculture. Berlin 1954.
- Communists are trained to fight. Berlin 1980.
- A life of peace for mankind. Selected speeches and essays, Berlin 1985.
literature
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Mückenberger, Erich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Mückenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Exclusion. The Politburo in front of the party court
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1969, p. 5
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, June 9, 1970, p. 1
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, June 8, 1985, p. 1
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Matern |
Chairman of the Central Party Control Commission of the SED 1972 - 1989 |
Werner Eberlein |
Jürgen Kuczynski (1947–1950) | Friedrich Ebert junior (1950–1958) | Georg Ulrich Handke (1958–1963) | Johannes Dieckmann (1963–1968) | Lothar Bolz (1968–1978) | Erich Mückenberger (1978–1989) | Cyrill Pech (1990)
Heinrich Hoffmann (1946–1949, formerly SPD) | Werner Eggerath (1946–1947, former KPD) | Erich Kops (1947–1949, former KPD) | Erich Mückenberger (1949–1952, formerly SPD)
Erich Mückenberger (1952–1953) | Hans Kiefer (1953–1957) | Hermann Fischer (1957–1958) | Alois Groom (1958–1980) | Gerhard Müller (1980–1989) | Herbert Kroker (1989–1990)
Gerhard Grüneberg (1952–1958) | Eduard Götzl (1958–1961) | Erich Mückenberger (1961–1971) | Hans-Joachim Hertwig (1971–1988) | Christa Zellmer (1988–1989) | Bernd Meier (1989–1990)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mückenberger, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD, SED), MdV, member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Party Control Commission in the GDR (1972–1989) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1998 |
| Place of death | Berlin |