Erwin Freyer
Erwin Freyer (born December 27, 1914 in Berlin , † September 22, 1992 ibid) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism and major general of the NVA. He was briefly Deputy Minister for National Defense of the GDR .
Life
The son of a gardener attended elementary school and high school with a high school diploma. In 1932 he joined the Socialist Students' Union and from 1933 did illegal political work for the KJVD . From 1935 to 1940 he studied aircraft construction at the Technical University in Berlin . From 1940 to 1944 he worked as an engineer in the Henschel aircraft works in Berlin-Schönefeld. He joined Anton Saefkow's communist resistance group , was arrested in July 1944 and sentenced to death in September 1944 by the judge of the People's Court, Paul Reimers, along with sergeant Heinrich Werner . While Heinrich Werner was being executed, he narrowly escaped the executioner, as the execution of his sentence was postponed because of his expertise. He was held in solitary confinement in the Brandenburg-Görden prison until February 1945 , then transferred to Torgau , where he was released in April 1945 and went to Berlin.
He became a member of the KPD in 1945 and of the SED in 1946 and worked until 1948 as a consultant and main consultant in the German Central Administration for Industry. In 1948/49 he was the main consultant in the main metallurgy administration of the German Economic Commission and, after the founding of the GDR, he was the main consultant in the Ministry of Industry. From 1951 to 1953 he worked in the Office for Economic Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior under Willi Stoph and from 1953 to 1955 as a department head in the Ministry of Transport and Agricultural Machinery. In March 1955, the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers Willi Stoph brought him back to his office, where he was initially involved in building up the NVA as an employee and from September 1955 as Colonel of the KVP and head of the Office for Technology .
With the formation of the National People's Army on March 1, 1956, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Technology and Armament and on September 1, 1956, Major General. As early as May 1, 1957, he resigned from this position and on February 19, 1958 - still in the rank of general - was initially a member and head of Department I of the State Planning Commission (SPK), later Deputy Chairman, responsible for the military sector. Due to a serious illness, he was replaced by Colonel Friedrich Zeiler in 1962 and released from the NVA on July 31, 1963.
From January 1, 1968 until its dissolution on December 31, 1972, he was head of the test center for civil aviation equipment (PfL ZL) in Berlin-Schönefeld. He then worked as a research assistant at the state aviation inspection of the GDR and as deputy chairman of the district committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters in Berlin-Weißensee.
Awards
- 1956 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1974 in gold
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Freyer, Erwin . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Torsten Diedrich , Hans Ehlert u. Rüdiger Wenzke , In the service of the party - Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR, Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , p. 694
- Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke , (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 15, 1957
- ↑ See also under Hedwig Hartung in the list of stumbling blocks in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
- ^ New Germany of February 20, 1958
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 13, 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freyer, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Berlin |