Helfried Grope

Helfried Grope (born January 5, 1914 , † April 13, 1959 ) was a German officer in the Wehrmacht and party functionary of the GDR bloc party NDPD .

Life

Grope was a Hitler Youth leader and did military service as an officer in the Wehrmacht . As a first lieutenant and leader of a platoon at News Artillery Regiment 295 he got into Stalingrad in Soviet captivity . He became a member of the National Committee "Free Germany" and was one of the founders of the Association of Officers .

After returning to Germany, he joined the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) in 1948. From 1949 to 1952 he was political manager of the Saxony-Anhalt regional association of the NDPD and from 1952 to 1959 chairman of the Magdeburg district association of the NDPD. From 1950 to 1959 he was a member of the main committee of the NDPD.

Even if he did not run in the state elections in the province of Saxony in 1946 , he became a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on October 28, 1949 . In the state elections in 1950 he received another mandate in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt , which he held until the dissolution of the states in the GDR in 1952. He was then from 1952 to 1959 a member of the Magdeburg district assembly . From 1950 to 1954 Grope was also a member of the GDR Land Chamber .

From 1956 to 1959 he was also a candidate for the central board of the Society for Sport and Technology .

Award

On October 6, 1958, Grope was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

literature

Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 915.
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. 113.
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 , pp. 247-248.
Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , Volume 53) . 2., corr. Edition. Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , pp. 70f.
Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR . 2nd Edition. Berlin historica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3 , p. 341.

Individual evidence

^ Brochure of the National Front (1954): How I found my home. Former frontline officers report , p. 15.
↑ Christina Trittel: The parliamentary groups in Saxony-Anhalt from 1946 to 1950. Analysis of state political action and the scope for action of collective actors in the emerging GDR . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-8350-9668-4 , p. 241.
↑ Minutes of the 1st electoral term, reprint 1992, ISBN 3-8051-0096-5 , p. 481; 51st session of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, Friday, February 24, 1950.
^ New Times of October 7, 1958.

personal data
SURNAME	Grope, Helfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German NDPD functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1914
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1959

[1] Brochure of the National Front (1954): How I found my home. Former frontline officers report , p. 15.

[2] Christina Trittel: The parliamentary groups in Saxony-Anhalt from 1946 to 1950. Analysis of state political action and the scope for action of collective actors in the emerging GDR . Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-8350-9668-4 , p. 241.

[3] Minutes of the 1st electoral term, reprint 1992, ISBN 3-8051-0096-5 , p. 481; 51st session of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, Friday, February 24, 1950.

[4] New Times of October 7, 1958.