Ernst Marterer
Ernst Marterer (born January 12, 1921 in Münchhof , Czechoslovakia , † May 2004 in Berlin ) was a German police officer. From 1970 to 1983 he was Deputy Minister of the Interior of the GDR .
Life
Marterer, son of a worker, attended elementary and trade school. From 1933 to 1938 he was active in the workers' youth movement in Czechoslovakia . After the annexation of the Sudetenland, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1939 , then into the Wehrmacht . From 1945 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war , was a course teacher and assistant at the Antifa central school in the village of Talizy.
In March 1949 Marterer came to the Soviet zone of occupation . He became a member of the SED and an organizational instructor at the SED district committee in Dresden . In the same year he joined the German People's Police (DVP) and became a political employee in the forest VP Revier and political teacher at the State Police School in Forst. In 1950 he went to the political department of the DVP state authority in Brandenburg and completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" until 1953 . From 1952 to 1954 he was deputy for political work of the head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) Potsdam . Subsequently, in 1955/56 he was political deputy head of the Higher Police School in Berlin and from 1956 to 1960 deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine “Die Volkspolizei” . From 1960 to 1970 he worked as a political employee in the department for security issues of the SED Central Committee and was at times editor-in-chief of the Kampfgruppen newspaper “Der Kämper” . He completed his studies in 1966/67 at the DVP University in Berlin-Kaulsdorf with a degree in political science.
1970 named him Walter Ulbricht to Major General . From 1970 to 1983 he was Deputy Minister of the Interior of the GDR and responsible for civil matters.
Marterer died in Berlin at the age of 83.
Awards
- 1969 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1975 in silver and 1981 in gold
- 1986 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Andreas Herbst : Ernst Marterer . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , June 30, 1970, p. 1.
- ↑ Obituary notice in ISOR-aktuell No. 6 - June 2004 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marterer, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German police officer and major general of the VP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Münchhof |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2004 |
| Place of death | Berlin |