Gerhard Schill
Paul Gerhard Schill (born March 23, 1925 in Chemnitz ; † April 6, 2000 in Dresden ) was Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1961 to 1986.
Life
Paul Gerhard Schill was born in Chemnitz as the son of a locksmith . After elementary school he began an apprenticeship as a clerk, but broke it off. In the 1930s he became a member of the Hitler Youth and in 1943 the NSDAP . Schill fought as a tank grenadier on the Eastern Front.
After being wounded in Prague, he deserted from the Wehrmacht in the last days of the war . In 1945 he took up a new job as a police officer in Chemnitz and joined the SPD in 1946 .
After studying at the administration academy in Forst Zinna from 1950 to 1952, he was employed as a personal advisor to Prime Minister Max Seydewitz . Promoted to head of the State Planning Commission in the Dresden District Council , he worked there until 1958 and was promoted to the SED district leadership.
On May 17, 1961, the Central Committee of the SED appointed him successor to Herbert Gute , as soon as his removal from office took effect. During Schill's tenure, the city of Dresden's economy experienced a significant boom. Many post-war buildings in Dresden fell under his responsibility. It was under him that the career of Wolfgang Berghofer's future chief assistant , Ursula Wehner, began when she joined in 1971.
On February 14, 1964 signed Schill and the Deputy Lord Mayor of Coventry Elsie Jones in the council meeting room of the Dresden City Hall the treaty of friendship with the English city of Coventry , which already since 1959 twin town was Dresden. A return visit to Coventry planned for May 1965 on the occasion of an exhibition about Dresden failed because the British refused entry through the Allied Travel Office in accordance with the rules of the time and the Hallstein Doctrine .
In 1984 he traveled to Bayreuth for talks and in 1985 took part in the SPD's Nuremberg peace talks. Schill resigned as mayor in 1986 for health reasons and became a member of the PDS in 1990 . Gerhard Schill died on April 6, 2000 in Dresden. His grave is on the Tolkewitz urn grove .
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth : Schill, Gerhard Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Schill in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the background and effects of the Schill affair, see Merrilyn Thomas: Communing with the enemy: covert operations, Christianity and Cold War politics in Britain and the GDR. Frankfurt etc .: Peter Lang 2005 ISBN 978-3-03910-192-4 , pp. 203 ff
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Good |
Mayor of Dresden 1961 - 1986 |
Wolfgang Berghofer |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schill, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schill, Paul Gerhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden (1961–1986) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2000 |
| Place of death | Dresden |