Helmut Pielasch

Helmut Pielasch (born March 24, 1917 in Gelsenkirchen , † April 28, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1957 to 1986 he was President of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (BSV) of the GDR .

Life

Pielasch, son of a miner, grew up in Lyssewen (Masuria) . After attending elementary school, he received training as a wheelwright and coachbuilder and then worked in the profession. In 1936 he was drafted into the RAD and in 1938 into the Wehrmacht . During the Second World War he was shot in the head in 1941 and went blind. After completing a blind technical training at the Silex commercial school , he was at an army technical school for the wounded until March 1945.

He experienced the end of the war in the Soviet occupation zone . From November 1945 to September 1953 he worked as head of the social affairs department at the Grevesmühlen district office . In 1946 he became a member of the FDGB , the KPD and the SED . In 1953/54 he worked as director of the Neukloster State Institute for the Blind (successor to Ernst Puchmüller ) and completed a distance learning course to become a lower-level teacher at the Institute for Teacher Training in Neukloster. Subsequently, until 1972 he was the main consultant for questions about the severely disabled in the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training and in the Ministry of Health of the GDR.

Pielasch was involved in founding the Association of the Blind in the GDR and was initially honorary from 1957 and full-time President of the General German Association of the Blind (ADBV) and the Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired of the GDR (BSV) from 1972. From 1958 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR . He completed a distance learning course at the German Academy for Political Science and Law from 1961 to 1964 as a graduate political scientist. In 1967 he was at the University of Economics Berlin Dr. rer. oec. and in 1969 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig as Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1967 to 1986 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind (WCWB) and from May 1972 General Secretary and from 1979 Vice-President of its European Regional Committee (ERK). From 1971 he was Vice President of the German Association for Disabled Sports. He was a co-initiator of the World Organization of Sports for the Blind (IBSA) and its president from 1981 to 1985.

Pielasch passed away voluntarily in April 1986 at the age of 69.

Awards

• 1967 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1977 in silver
• 1981 Louis Braille Medal
• 1982 Order Banner of Labor Level I

Fonts

• History of the blind system in Germany and the GDR , Leipzig 1972 (together with M. Jaedicke).
• The right of the visually impaired in the GDR , Leipzig 1988 (Ed.).

literature

• Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Andreas Herbst , Christine Krauss, Daniel Küchenmeister (eds.): The parties and organizations of the GDR: A manual, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-01988-0 , pp. 1051f.
• Elke Reuter, Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Pielasch, Helmut . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Roswitha Foerster: Pielasch, Helmut , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 470f.

Web links

• Helmut Pielasch at Gelsenkirchener Stories Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. M. Jaedicke: On the history of the BSV - some theses and problems . In: horus - 2/1991 ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed November 29, 2016)