Ernst Wulf

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LPG chairman Ernst Wulf (right) on May 21, 1959

Ernst Wulf (born October 3, 1921 in Poppendorf ; † October 2, 1979 ) was chairman of the Association of Mutual Peasant Aid (VdgB) of the GDR and a member of the Central Committee of the SED .

Life

Ernst Wulf was born in Poppendorf, Mecklenburg, near Marlow, the son of a small farmer. After attending primary school, he initially worked on his parents' farm without training before he was drafted into the RAD in 1938 . At the beginning of the war, Wulf became a soldier in the Wehrmacht and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the Americans in Italy.

After his release in Swabia , he worked as an electric welder until 1946, then switched back to agriculture and became a milker on an estate in Stuttgart. He moved on to Hanover and in 1947 returned to his home town of Poppendorf, where he worked in his parents' business until 1948. In the spring of 1949, at the age of 27, he took over a farm in the neighboring village of Schulenberg as a new farmer .

In 1949 Wulf joined the VdgB, which had a large number of members, especially in Mecklenburg, and became a member of the SED . As early as 1952 he was honored with the honorary title of “ master builder ”, which was only founded in 1951 and which was officially awarded for special achievements in increasing agricultural production and the fulfillment and over-fulfillment of the national economic plan. In December 1952 Wulf was one of the co-founders of the local LPG "Friendship" and was elected chairman, which he remained until 1964. The SED leadership became aware of the young man and elected him in 1958 as a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED . In 1960 Wulf was elected deputy chairman of the VdgB. The German Academy of Agricultural Sciences accepted him as a candidate in 1962, before accepting him as a full member in 1968. By then he was the academy's first practitioner. This was preceded by a professional qualification in the form of a special course at the agricultural faculty of the University of Rostock , which Wulf began in 1960 and graduated in 1963 as a qualified farmer. In 1972, however, Wulf left the academy at his own request. In 1963, the SED party leadership accepted him as a full member of their central committee.

On March 25, 1964, he was elected as the successor to the late Friedrich Wehmer as chairman of the VdgB. Wulf shaped the mass organization for the next 15 years until his death and made a name for himself above all as the LPG chairman of the LPG "Recknitztal" in Semlow . On April 10, 1964 he was elected chairman of the economically weak LPG in Semlow, Ribnitz-Damgarten district. There he was one of the first to develop industrial agricultural production, which resulted in a cooperation between LPGs and specialized plant production companies. This resulted in the so-called KAP in the 1970s . This development was not viewed uncritically because of its environmental impact and was partially reversed by his successor Fritz Dallmann in the 1980s. Ernst Wulf died as a surprise after a serious illness one day before his 58th birthday.

Wulf was buried in the Marlow cemetery.

Awards and honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait in Neues Deutschland from June 20, 1964
  2. ^ New Germany of April 12, 1964
  3. ^ New Germany of October 4, 1979
  4. ^ New Germany of October 10, 1979
  5. ^ New Germany of December 11, 1982
personal data
SURNAME Wulf, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), chairman of the VdgB
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppendorf
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1979