Fritz Wolff (politician)

Fritz Wolff (born August 22, 1916 in Grünberg in Silesia , † November 14, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German politician and functionary of the GDR bloc party LDPD . He was State Secretary , Deputy Mayor of East Berlin , Chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the LDPD and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Wolff, son of a spinning worker, attended elementary school in Grünberg. From 1931 to 1934 he completed an apprenticeship as a construction, picture and lead laser . From 1933 to 1935 he also received a commercial training. He then worked as a glazier. He did military service and, during the Second World War, served in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war .

After his release into the Soviet zone of occupation , he joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 1945 and was a member of the Themar municipal council from 1946 to 1948 . He was first deputy, then until 1949 chairman of the LDP local group Themar. In 1948 he passed the master's examination as a master glazier. From 1948 to 1952 he was a member of the Hildburghausen district council and from 1949 to 1952 chairman of the LDPD district committee in Hildburghausen. From 1950 to 1952 he served as a district councilor in Hildburghausen and as a member of the state parliament of Thuringia . In the summer of 1952 he became chairman of the newly formed Suhl district council of the LDPD. At the same time he was a member of the Suhl district assembly and deputy chairman of the district council . He held these functions until 1956. From 1952 to 1967 he was a member of the LDPD central board and was a member of the political committee of the central board.

From July 1953 to November 1963 he was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR (replacement for Friedrich Althans, who fled to West Germany ). From 1953 to 1958 he was a member of the budget and finance committee and from 1958 chairman of the constitutional committee of the people's chamber. From 1956 he was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the GDR and from September 1956 to February 1958 State Secretary and 1st Deputy Minister for the Food Industry of the GDR in the 3rd Grotewohl government (successor to Ruth Fabisch ). In 1958 he was Deputy Sector Head in the State Planning Commission .

From November 1958 to 1976 he was a city ​​councilor for Berlin. In 1958 he became a member of the Berlin magistrate and, as deputy mayor or city councilor, was initially responsible for the areas of communal housing, culture, physical culture and sport, and from 1966 to 1971 for tourism, tourism and Berlin advertising. From 1971 he was director for planning and coordination of the Berlin-Friedrichshain hospital. From 1967 to 1990 he was chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the LDPD (successor to Helmuth Speer ).

Awards

• 1956 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1981 in gold
• 1958 Wilhelm Külz badge of honor
• 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

• Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic, 3rd electoral period, Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 430.
• 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. 324.
• 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. 1028.
• Jochen Lengemann : Thuringian state parliaments 1919–1952 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22179-9 , pp. 698f.