Ernst Wolf (politician, 1907)

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Ernst Wolf (born June 1, 1907 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; † March 2, 1989 there ) was a State Secretary in the GDR . In addition, he was temporarily Deputy Mayor of East Berlin and a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Ernst Wolf was born in 1907 into a working class family in Berlin. Wolf's father was a member of the SPD. After attending elementary school and the municipal trade school between 1914 and 1921, he completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in the telephone factory in Berlin by 1926 and at the same time attended the Beuth engineering school for eight semesters . During this time he also became a member of the German Metalworkers Association. After completing his studies, Wolf worked as a toolmaker in various Berlin companies until 1931, including as a master craftsman at Zippverschluß GmbH Berlin. In 1929, the year of the great economic crisis, Wolf joined the KPD. In 1931 he was fired by his employer. During the period of unemployment, which lasted for Wolf until 1933, he completed a course at the Marxist Workers' School (MASCH) in Berlin in the winter of 1931/32 . In 1933 Wolf found a job again, until 1941 he worked as a toolmaker and production engineer at Krone & Co. Berlin, which manufactured electronic devices. He then worked as operations manager in the Krone press shop until the end of the war. During his time at Krone, Wolf was involved in illegal political activities in Berlin from 1936 to 1943, but details are not yet known.

After the end of the war in 1945, Wolf found a job in the German Central Administration for Industry, initially as a consultant, later as a department head. As a KPD member, he became a member of the SED after the unification congress in April 1946. In 1948 he moved to the German Economic Commission, where he worked until 1949 as the main department head and deputy head of the main administration for mechanical engineering and the electrical industry. In the subsequent Provisional Government of the GDR, the main administration was initially part of the Ministry of Industry under Minister Fritz Selbmann .

After the constitution of the first Council of Ministers of the GDR in November 1950, a Ministry for Heavy Industry under Fritz Selbmann and a Ministry for Mechanical Engineering under Gerhart Ziller were set up, in which Wolf temporarily headed the Heavy Engineering Headquarters with the rank of State Secretary. After a course at the German Administration Academy "Walter Ulbricht", to which Wolf was delegated in the spring of 1951, he returned to the Ministry of Mechanical Engineering at the end of 1952. This was divided into three ministries at the end of 1952, where Wolf worked under Minister Major General Bernd Weinberger as State Secretary in the so-called Ministry of Transport and Agricultural Machinery. The rank of his superior already showed that this ministry actually had to do with the establishment of the barracked people's police.

While the corresponding department of the Ministry of the Interior under Lieutenant General Heinz Hoffmann took care of the personnel security for the establishment of the CIP, the Ministry under Weinberger was responsible for the material security. After Weinberger was dismissed in July 1953, also under the impression of June 17 and a general change in the line of government in establishing the CIP, Wolf was also dismissed from the ministry in August 1953, which was officially dissolved again in November 1953.

For a short time he took over the post of economic secretary in the SED district leadership in Berlin until August 1954. The SED then delegated him to Moscow to study for a year at the party college of the CPSU Central Committee. Then Wolf changed back to his old position, now officially and under a new name. With effect from September 1, 1955, the Office for Technology was initially formed in the Ministry of the Interior, which from March 1, 1956 was subordinate to the newly established Ministry of National Defense under Defense Minister Willi Stoph. Wolf took over the management of the Office for Technology in the rank of State Secretary. The office was responsible for the management of military production in the GDR. In addition, he was also responsible for research for military purposes as well as the emerging nuclear physics and aeronautical research in the GDR. Wolf was thus at times one of the central figures in the military armament of the newly created NVA and in the development of the GDR aviation industry.

Furthermore, the integration of returning German specialists from the Soviet Union, who had been brought there as part of Operation Ossawakim in 1946, was his responsibility. By resolution of the Council of Ministers of February 13, 1958, the Office for Technology was dissolved in March of that year and VVB UNIMAK was founded. Wolf was then released from his position in the Ministry of National Defense. As a result, he moved to the Berlin magistrate, which had formed an economic council with effect from April 1, 1958, of which Wolf became chairman. Associated with this was the position of deputy mayor of Berlin.

Within the party, the SED recognized Wolf's function in such a way that he was directly elected as a member of the SED Central Committee at the Fifth Party Congress in July 1958. After the elections for the Berlin city council in November 1958, Wolf was confirmed in his office at the first meeting of the magistrate. Now he was even a permanent representative of the Lord Mayor. After a legislature, Wolf moved to the GDR's Economics Council in September 1963, where he temporarily took over the general mechanical engineering sector. In December of the same year he took over the post of Deputy Head of the State Administration of the State Reserve of the GDR with the rank of State Secretary. While Wolf was not re-confirmed as a member of the Central Committee in 1967, he remained as State Secretary until 1973.

He was then released from this position due to age reasons. After a long and serious illness, he died at the age of 81. His urn was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the Pergolenweg grave complex.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 2, 1958 p. 2.
  2. ^ Funeral service for Comrade Ernst Wolf . In: Neues Deutschland , March 16, 1989, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 29, 1967, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 30, 1977, p. 5.
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 27, 1972, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 26, 1987, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), State Secretary, Deputy Mayor of East Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1989
Place of death Berlin-Charlottenburg