Heinz Bendig
Heinz Bendig (born January 30, 1921 in Bremen ; † December 21, 2016 ) was a German university professor and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1951/52 he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament .
Life
Bendig, son of a shipyard worker, started an apprenticeship as a bricklayer after elementary school in 1935 and worked in this profession until 1941. From 1941 to 1943 he fought as a member of the German Wehrmacht in World War II . After being seriously injured in the war in 1943, he was released as a private and took part in a technology course in Hamburg-Wandsbek . He then worked as a construction technician in Bremen until January 1945 . From January to April 1945 he stayed in Rostock for a hospital stay.
After the end of the war, Bendig was deployed in Stavenhagen in June 1945 as acting manager of a construction sawmill. In the same month he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and became a member of the SED after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 . After the sawmill was dismantled, he worked as an employee in the Stavenhagen city administration from August 1945 and was head of the Antifa youth committee in Schwerin from October 1945 to January 1946 . In January 1946 he became secretary for culture of the work area management of the KPD and SED in Stavenhagen and completed a degree at the state party school in Klein Trebbow from October to December 1946 . From January to June 1947 he was head of the district party school in goods .
From June 1947 to September 1949 Bendig was a political employee in the SED state association of Mecklenburg and then until 1950 deputy personnel manager of the Association of People's Own Shipyards in Schwerin. After a further course at the party college "Karl Marx" he became secretary for cadres in January 1951 and in August 1951 second secretary of the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg. He held this position until the dissolution of the states in the GDR in July 1952. In 1951/52 Bendig was a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament.
From August 1952 to April 1955, Bendig was the second secretary of the SED district leadership in Schwerin and at the same time a member of the Schwerin district assembly . From 1955 to 1958 he studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow and in May 1958 became secretary of the SED district leadership Ludwigslust in the MTS area Neu-Kaliss. From May 1960 to May 1961 he acted as secretary for agitation and propaganda of the SED district leadership in Ludwigslust and from 1961 to March 1964 as head of the district agricultural school in Ludwigslust. Then he was party secretary of the SED at the Pedagogical Institute in Güstrow until June 1966 . He then worked as a university lecturer at the Güstrow University of Education until his retirement in January 1986 .
After the reunification in the GDR he was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Bendig died at the age of 95 and was buried in the Schwerin forest cemetery.
literature
- Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 106 .
- Mario Niemann: Heinz Bendig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary notice in the Schweriner Volkszeitung from January 7, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendig, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), MdL Mecklenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 2016 |