Heinrich Homann

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Heinrich Homann (1986)
Homann (left) together with Gerald Götting and Walter Ulbricht in the Volkskammer, October 1960

Heinrich Homann (born March 6, 1911 in Bremerhaven ; † May 4, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German officer and politician and functionary of the GDR block party, the National Democratic Party of Germany . From 1972 to 1989 he was chairman of the NDPD.

Life

As the son of a shipping company director , Homann studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , the Georg August University Göttingen and the University of Hamburg from 1929 onwards . He became a member of the Corps Thuringia Jena (1930) and Brunsviga Göttingen . He did not obtain a regular degree.

He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1933 and in 1934 as a professional soldier in the Reichswehr . Taken into the Wehrmacht , he became a lieutenant in 1937 and later a major . During the Second World War , in 1943 as a division commander of the 83rd artillery regiment in the Battle of Stalingrad , he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He joined the Association of German Officers and attended the Central Antifa School in Krasnogorsk . He was one of the founders of the National Committee for Free Germany and worked on its station “Free Germany” and the newspaper of the same name.

Career in the GDR

Homann returned to Germany in 1948 and joined the newly founded NDPD, which was supposed to bind former Wehrmacht officers and NSDAP members to the GDR and its political-ideological system. From 1952 to 1967 he was deputy chairman of the NDPD. In 1972 he became chairman of the party.

In 1948 he joined the Mecklenburg state government as an employee . He became a member of the People's Chamber (1949), member of the Presidium of the National Council of the National Front (GDR) (1957) and Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the GDR (1960). 1964 succeeded the Promotion A . From 1960 to 1986 he was deputy chairman of the People's Chamber Committee for National Defense. He was recalled from the State Council on November 17, 1989 and expelled from the party a month later.

In the GDR he received numerous awards, including the gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1969 and the Karl Marx Order in 1986 .

Before the fall of the Wall , Homann did not want or could not keep in touch with his corps brothers. After reunification he wanted to take part in the life of his corps again, but was diminished by Thuringia Jena in 1992 . Brunsviga initiated an honorary procedure, whereupon he laid down the Braunschweigerband in 1993. He was reported as "eliminated".

Awards

Works

  • The second year of the National Democratic Party of Germany. Speech at the 2nd party congress of the National Democratic Party of Germany in Leipzig from 15.-17. June 1950 . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1950.
  • Field Marshal General Friedrich Paulus . Words of remembrance . National Front of Democratic Germany, Berlin 1957.
  • On honor and conscience. The meaning of a change . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1963.
  • The political-ideological conception of the National Committee “Free Germany” for the solution of the national question . Hall 1964
  • The NDPD helped shape the developed socialist society in the GDR. From speeches and contributions. 1971-1985 . Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1986.

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Homann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Bickelmann : Bremerhaven personalities from four centuries . A biographical lexicon . Bremerhaven City Archives, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3923851251 , p. 143.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 174 , 1075
  3. ↑ a b Georg Bacmeister: The history of the Corps Brunsviga . Part II: 1924-1993 , Celle 2002, p. 108
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1969, p. 5
  5. ↑ Karl-Marx-Orden awarded , In: Neues Deutschland, March 6, 1986, p. 1
  6. ↑ Phil. F., diss. From January 15, 1964.
personal data
SURNAME Homann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NDPD functionary, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1994
Place of death Berlin