Heinrich Engelke
Heinrich Engelke (born May 25, 1910 in Lehe , † May 8, 1979 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1945 he was brief mayor and later city councilor in Chemnitz .
Life
Engelke, the son of a photographer , learned after the completion of secondary school the profession of dental technician . From 1928 to 1931 he was a member of the NSDAP . In 1942 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht as a medic and fought in World War II . In 1943 Engelke deserted and joined the Soviet Red Army . Until 1945 he attended several anti-fascist schools in the Soviet Union and served as the front-line representative of the anti-fascist National Committee Free Germany (NKFD).
After the end of the war, Engelke joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the SED in 1946. In July 1945 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Chemnitz by the Soviet occupation forces as the successor to Fritz Gleibe . However, he only held the office for a few weeks. From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the Chemnitz district council and until 1952 the district councilor of Chemnitz.
From 1952 to 1958 Engelke was head of the municipal economy department at the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . From 1958 to 1961 he was city councilor and first deputy mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt. After that, he was district mayor of Karl-Marx-Stadt-Mitte / Nord until 1970 and chairman of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in the same district.
Honors
- Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (GDR)
literature
- Uwe Müller: Heinrich Engelke . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 81.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Engelke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv : Heinrich Engelke , Dresden 2015.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelke, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, Lord Mayor of Chemnitz (1945) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lehe |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1979 |
| Place of death | Karl Marx City |