Gustav Borrmann
Gustav Borrmann (born September 25, 1895 in Halle (Saale) ; † June 7, 1975 in Berlin ) was a German KPD functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism and department head in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR .
Life
The worker's son Gustav Borrmann joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in 1911 . In 1913/14 he learned the profession of lithographer , was then called up for military service and fought in the First World War until 1918 . As early as 1916 he was a member of the Spartacus group and in 1919 was one of the co-founders of the KPD in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1920/21, as a result of the Kapp Putsch and his involvement in the military commission of the KPD in Halle , Borrmann spent 18 months in the Coswig prison .
In 1923 Borrmann became secretary of the KPD Essen and was involved in the Ruhr War . In the same year he became secretary of the KPD district of Hessen-Waldeck, in 1924 managing director of the KPD district bookstore Halle-Merseburg and in 1929 head of the Halle sales office of the New German Publishing House and the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung . From 1924 to 1933 he was chairman of the Red Front Fighters League (RFB) Halle and deputy chairman of the RFB in the Gau Halle-Merseburg.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Borrmann was arrested in March 1933 and held in the Lichtenburg and Papenburg concentration camps until March 1934 . After his release he also supported the KPD in illegality. In 1935 Borrmann emigrated to Czechoslovakia , then to the Soviet Union and lived in Moscow with interruptions until 1941 .
From 1936 to 1939 Borrmann was a member of the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War , after which he went back to the USSR. In 1940/41 Borrmann was a proofreader at the publishing house for foreign language literature in Moscow. In February 1941 he was granted Soviet citizenship . In July 1941 Borrmann became head of the political emigrants and secretary, 1945/46 president of the area committee of the Red Aid in Karaganda in Kazakhstan .
In 1946 Borrmann returned to Germany, became a member of the SED and deputy head of the state police authority of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1950 he went to the MfS and became head of main department 1, responsible for general and personnel, and in 1951 head of the general department. In 1953 Borrmann was promoted to colonel and in 1955 became head of the agitation department . In 1958 he retired.
His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.
Honors
- 1957 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1970 Karl Marx Order (GDR)
literature
- Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer, Daniela Münkel, Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3rd updated edition, Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 63.
- Andreas Herbst , Peter Erler : Gustav Borrmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Hermann Weber , Andreas Herbst: German communists. Biographical Handbook 1918 to 1945 . 2nd, revised and greatly expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02130-6 ( online ).
- Allan Merson : Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany . Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-89144-262-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Herbst , Peter Erler: Gustav Borrmann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- ^ New Germany , October 7, 1957, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, September 2, 1965, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borrmann, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German KPD functionary, Colonel in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7th 1975 |
| Place of death | Berlin |