Hans Bierschenk

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Hans Bierschenk (born January 28, 1923 in Weimar ; † April 29, 1988 ) was a colonel in the National People's Army of the GDR, head of the officers' school in Berlin-Treptow and director of the German Army Museum in Potsdam .

Life

Bierschenk, son of an employee, learned the trade of a commercial employee. On September 1, 1942, he became a member of the NSDAP local group Apolda (Gau Thuringia). At the age of 18 he volunteered for the Wehrmacht . He wanted to be a pilot, but got into flak. He participated in the Second World War, in part, was most recently used in Finland and fell in 1945 in the port of Liepaja as a prisoner of the Baltic Red Banner Fleet in Soviet captivity . He attended the anti-fascist school in Riga and then worked as a propagandist among German prisoners of war. After attending the Central Anti-Fascist School, he was released into the Soviet occupation zone in June 1949 and returned to Thuringia.

After his return he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and worked as a party functionary in Apolda. From 1949 he was a member of the German People's Police and later of the Barracked People's Police . From 1956 he was an officer in the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR and from 1957 to 1964 headed the officers' school in Berlin-Treptow. From 1966 to 1971 Bierschenk was director of the German Army Museum in the Potsdam Marble Palace . In 1969 he was promoted to colonel in the NVA. Between 1968 and 1972 Bierschenk was also a member of the Presidential Council of the GDR Cultural Association .

Bierschenk died as Colonel a. D. at the age of 65 and was buried in the Heidefriedhof Dresden .

Awards

Fonts

  • From the German Army Museum . In: Zeitschrift für Militärgeschichte , Issue 1 (1962), pp. 113–115.
  • I swear. An image documentation about the National People's Army . German military publisher, 1969.

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 39.
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 62.
  • Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 274.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ If you want to know the essence of a weapon ... . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 3, 1969, p. 3.
  2. ^ Obituary notice from the Dresden NVA office in the Sächsische Zeitung of May 24, 1988.
  3. ^ Obituary notice of the College of the Ministry of National Defense in the People's Army No. 21 / May 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Bierschenk, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer (NVA), director of the German Army Museum
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1988