Fritz Clement
Fritz Clement (born February 28, 1926 in Magdeburg ; † July 20, 2004 ) was a German major general of the National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and a functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
Life
Clement, son of a worker learned after the elementary and middle school the profession of mason . From 1943 to 1945 he fought as a soldier in the German Wehrmacht in World War II and as a non-commissioned officer was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets , from which he was released in 1949. While in captivity, he attended a Soviet anti-fascist school .
Clement returned to Germany in 1949 and lived in Magdeburg again. In 1949 he became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and went full-time into politics. From 1949 to 1953 he was an FDJ functionary, from 1950 secretary of the basic SED organization in the FDJ regional association of Saxony-Anhalt .
From 1953 to 1955 Clement studied social sciences at the Karl Marx party college of the SED and obtained his diploma . From 1955 to 1962 he worked as an instructor in the security department of the Central Committee. From 1960 to 1961 he took a one-year course at the Military Academy of the National People's Army (NVA) in Dresden . From 1962 to 1988, Clement was head of the NVA sector in the security department of the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED . In 1964 he was promoted to colonel and began distance learning at the military academy, which he completed in 1971 with another diploma. On February 26, 1971, he was appointed major general by the chairman of the GDR's National Defense Council , Walter Ulbricht .
Awards
- 1966 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze, 1975 silver and 1986 in gold
- 1985 Honorary Degree of Honored Member of the National People's Army
- Battle medals "For services to people and fatherland" in gold
literature
- Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 41.
- Andreas Herbst : Fritz Clement . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fritz Clement in Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke: Die Generale und Admirale der NVA: a biographical manual , Ch. Links Verlag, 2007
- ^ Neues Deutschland , February 27, 1971, p. 1.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clement, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary and major general of the NVA in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 2004 |