Gerhart Ziller
Paul Gerhart (Gert) Ziller (born April 19, 1912 in Dresden , † December 14, 1957 in Berlin ) was an anti-fascist resistance fighter, Minister of Mechanical Engineering and Minister of Heavy Engineering of the GDR .
Life
As the son of a worker, Ziller completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and technical draftsman and an evening course as an electrical engineer after attending primary school. He joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany in 1927 and the KPD in 1930 and was editor of the KPD newspaper "Arbeiterstimme" from 1930–1933. After 1933 he worked as a technical draftsman and mechanical engineer. Because of his illegal activities (including a member of the resistance group around Anton Saefkow ) he was imprisoned several times, most recently in 1944/45 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and in Leipzig prison .
In 1945 he became "People's Commissar for Culture" in Meißen in the Antifa Committee , which was founded immediately after the end of the war . From August 1945-1946 he was Ministerialrat and head of the coal, fuel and energy department of the state administration, until 1948 ministerial director and main department head for fuel energy and energy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, until 1949 deputy minister and from April 1949 and from November 1950 Minister for Industry and Transport of the State of Saxony .
From November 1950 to February 1953 he was Minister for Mechanical Engineering and from February 1953 to January 1954 Minister for Heavy Engineering of the GDR. From July 1953 he was a member and secretary for economic policy of the Central Committee of the SED and from August 1953 a member of the People's Chamber .
After clashes with Walter Ulbricht on economic policy issues Ziller committed in 1957 on 14 December suicide . His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.
In February 1958, Ziller was accused of belonging to the “anti-party group Schirdewan , Wollweber u. a. ”to have heard.
literature
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs : Gerhart Ziller . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhart Ziller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Death of a minister , a day
Gerhart Ziller (SED, 1953–1954) | Erich Apel (SED, 1955–1958) | Gerhard Zimmermann (SED, 1965–1981) | Rolf Kersten (SED, 1981–1986) | Hans-Joachim Lauck (SED, 1986–1989) | Kurt Singhuber (SED, 1989–1990)
1919–1933: Albert Schwarz | Alfred Fellisch | Fritz Heckert | Alfred Fellisch | Hermann Müller | Walter Woldemar Wilhelm | Friedrich Krug von Nidda and von Falkenstein | Hans R. Hedrich
1933–1945: Georg Lenk | Georg Schmidt
1945–1952: Richard Woldt | Fritz Selbmann | Walter Gäbler / Fritz Selbmann | Alfred Fellisch | Gerhart Ziller
since 1990: Kajo Schommer | Martin Gillo | Thomas Jurk | Sven Morlok | Martin Dulig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziller, Gerhart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziller, Paul Gerhart; Ziller, Gert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD, SED), anti-fascist resistance fighter, MdV, Minister for Mechanical Engineering and Minister for Heavy Engineering of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1957 |
| Place of death | Berlin |