Friedrich Pfaffenbach

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Friedrich Pfaffenbach (born July 31, 1921 in Hofgeismar ; † March 13, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German party functionary of the GDR bloc party NDPD . For many years he was chairman of the NDPD district committee in Berlin and a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Pfaffenbach, the son of a civil servant, attended secondary school and passed the Abitur . In 1939 he joined the NSDAP . He was drafted into the Wehrmacht and did military service . In 1944 he got the rank of captain in Soviet captivity . He attended an Antifa school there , worked on Antifa committees and later taught at Antifa schools himself.

In 1949 he returned to Germany and joined the NDPD. From 1949 to 1967 he was a member of the Provisional People's Chamber and the People's Chamber of the GDR . From 1950 to 1951 he was head of department in the NDPD party executive and 1951/1952 political manager of the NDPD regional association in Berlin. From 1952 to 1953 he was chairman of the NDPD district committee in Halle and a member of the district assembly . He completed his correspondence course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in 1954 with a degree in political science.

From 1953 to June 7, 1984 he served as chairman of the NDPD district committee in Berlin. From 1955 to April 1977 he was a member of the party executive committee of the main committee of the NDPD and after the renaming of the party executive committee on the XI. At the party congress in April 1977 he was a member of the presidium of the main committee of the NDPD until December 5, 1985. At the 10th meeting of the main committee, he was replaced in this position by his successor as Berlin NDPD district chairman, Gustav-Adolf Schlomann . From 1958 to 1968 Pfaffenbach was a city councilor in Berlin. From 1971 to 1986 he was again a member of the People's Chamber and from 1973 to 1986 chairman of the mandate review committee. From 1966 he was Vice President of the GDR-Japan Friendship Committee. In 1984 he retired.

After the NDPD joined the League of Free Democrats in March 1990, he became a member of the latter, and later became a member of the FDP for a short time . From the 1994 federal election, Pfaffenbach was an election worker for the PDS . Together with other former NDPD members, he participated in the election call for the PDS in the newspaper Neues Deutschland on September 28, 1994. In 2002, together with 181 former members and functionaries of the NDPD, he called for the PDS to be the “only anti-war party” choose.

Pfaffenbach was buried in the Karlshorster and Neue Friedrichsfelder Friedhof in Berlin-Karlshorst .

Awards

literature

  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Part II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 248.
  • The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 7th legislative term . State publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1977, p. 477.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 240.
  • 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. 641.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 469f.
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Pfaffenbach, Friedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National-Zeitung of June 8, 1984.
  2. ↑ National-Zeitung of December 6, 1985.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , September 28, 1994, p. 9.
  4. ↑ PDS. Late pacifists . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 2002, p. 21 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 22, 2008 (obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Pfaffenbach, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hofgeismar
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2008
Place of death Berlin