Franz Bruk

Franz Bruk (born May 24, 1923 in Vienna , † September 7, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ) of Austrian origin. He was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Cottbus and Halle .

Life

Bruk, the son of a journeyman baker and a laundress, came from a family with a social democratic background. His father was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria (SDAPDÖ). Bruk attended elementary school and trained as a baker from 1937 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945 he served in the Wehrmacht , most recently as a senior mate . From April to August 1945 he was a US and British prisoner of war .

After the war he worked as a cashier in the tax office in Eberswalde in 1945/46 . In January 1946 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and in April 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1946 to 1948 he was secretary of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in Eberswalde. In 1949 he was head of the Eberswalde district party school of the SED. From 1950 to 1951 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" at the Central Committee of the SED. Then he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Senftenberg in 1951/52 . From August 1952 to August 1953 he acted as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Cottbus and as chairman of the Cottbus district committee of the National Front . From September 1953 to August 1954 he studied at the party college at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow and then from September 1954 to April 1958 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Halle. In September 1956 Bruk was - along with Walter Ulbricht , Karl Schirdewan and Richard Gyptner - a member of the delegation of the Central Committee of the SED which took part in the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of China . Bruk also took part in the conversation with Mao Tse-tung on September 23, 1956 and recorded it. From 1958 to March 1966 Bruk was secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership in Halle and head of the ideological commission of the district leadership in Halle. He was also a member of the local district assembly from 1954 to 1968 . From 1966 to 1973 he was the main director of the DEFA studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg and from 1967 to 1971 a member of the SED district management in Potsdam . Subsequently, he was a political employee of the State Committee for Television .

He last lived in Berlin-Friedrichshain .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1964) and in gold (1976)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 35.
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 49.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 90.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst: SED squad: The middle level. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 135.
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Bruk, Franz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Meißner (Ed.): The GDR and China 1949 to 1990. Politics, economy, culture . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002806-8 , pp. 83-91.
2. ↑ Congratulations on the golden wedding in the Berliner Zeitung of December 18, 1993, p. 20.