Ernst Quaschning

Ernst Quaschning (born April 11, 1898 in Schönwalde near Bernau ; † January 23, 1973 in Schwerin ) was a German SED functionary and functionary of the Association of Mutual Peasant Aid (VdgB).

Life

Quaschning, son of a master distiller, learned the trade of machinist. During the First World War he worked in the aircraft factory in Mecklenburg. Later he worked as an agricultural and forest worker . In 1919 he joined the SPD and the Mecklenburg Agricultural Workers' Association. Quaschning was temporarily chairman of the trade union in Wandrum . Here he was also a community representative in 1920 and then mayor for a short time until he was incorporated into the Schwerin office in April 1921. He then worked as a fitter at the North German timber industry in Schwerin and later was an employee of the Schwerin employment office. In 1933 Quaschning was removed from office by the National Socialists. He found work as a construction worker. During the Second World War Quaschning was drafted into military service in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the British.

In 1945 Quaschning returned to Schwerin. In 1945 he became a member of the SPD and the VdgB. From April 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the SED state executive committee and head of the agriculture department in the SED state secretariat. From September 1948 to October 1950 he was a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament . After attending the party college "Karl Marx" he worked from 1949 to 1951 as the second state chairman of the VdgB Mecklenburg. From 1951 to August 1952 he was the first chairman or secretary of the state board of the VdgB in Saxony-Anhalt . From December 1951 he was also a member of the central board of the VdgB.

Subsequently, until 1963 he was head of the trading office and main consultant for breeding and farm animals in the Halle district and member of the Halle district board of the Land and Forestry Union . In 1963 Quaschning returned to Schwerin, worked for a short time at VEB Klement-Gottwald-Werke Schwerin and then retired.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 999.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 674.
• Berit Olschewski: "Friends" in enemy territory. Red Army and German post-war society in the former Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1945–1953 . ISBN 978-3-830-51690-3 , BWV Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 517.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7867 .

Web links

• Literature about Ernst Quaschning in the state bibliography MV
• Entry in MV data. The biographical database .