Gerhard Trölitzsch
Gerhard Trölitzsch (born March 2, 1926 in Oberfrohna ; † April 12, 2017 ) was a German SED functionary.
Life
Trölitzsch, son of a carpenter and a seamstress , attended elementary school in Oberfrohna from 1932 to 1940 . From 1936 to 1940 he was a member of the Deutsche Jungvolk and then until 1943 a member of the Hitler Youth . From 1940 to 1943 he trained as a bricklayer in Limbach . In 1943 he was drafted first into the Reich Labor Service and then into the Wehrmacht . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Americans in France .
Released from captivity in the spring of 1946, Trölitzsch returned to Oberfrohna and worked as a bricklayer again. In 1946 he joined the SED. In 1946/47 he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Chemnitz and then studied architecture at the Technical University of Dresden from 1947 to 1953 . He completed his studies as a graduate engineer. From 1953 to 1956 he was a personal advisor to the President of the German Building Academy Kurt Liebknecht . From 1955 to 1958 Trölitzsch studied at the party college "Karl Marx" with a degree in social science . In 1958/1959 he worked as a civil engineer in the construction management of the Lübbenau power plant . From 1959 he was an employee, from 1960 to 1989 head of the construction department in the Central Committee of the SED . From 1976 he was a candidate, from 1981 to 1989 a member of the Central Committee of the SED. From 1976 he was also a member of the Economic Commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED. In December 1989 and January 1990 he played a key role in the organizational dissolution of the SED Central Committee.
From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the central board of the IG Bau-Holz trade union in the FDGB . From 1962 he was a member of the editorial board of the SED magazine Neuer Weg . Trölitzsch was also a full member of the German Building Academy.
Fonts
- (together with Horst Hahn, Berny Heumann): About the experiences in party work on the major construction sites . Dietz, Berlin 1963.
- Great attention to investments - a requirement of the technical revolution . In: Einheit , 19 (1964), Issue 9/10, pp. 120-131.
Awards
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1964), in silver (1969) and in gold (1974)
- Karl Marx Order (1986)
literature
- 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 , pp. 941-942.
- Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Trölitzsch, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
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SURNAME | Trölitzsch, Gerhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SED functionary |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberfrohna |
DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 2017 |