Herbert Bomski

Herbert Bomski (born March 19, 1926 in Klösterlich Neudorf , Hoyerswerda district ; † May 29, 2014 ) was a German politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). From 1954 to 1958 he was Lord Mayor of Cottbus and 1973/74 State Secretary in the Ministry of District Industry and Food Industry .

Life

Bomski, the son of a farm worker and a miner , started an administrative apprenticeship after elementary school in 1940 and was a temporary employee at the Hoyerswerda district office until 1943 . In 1943 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and drafted into the German armed forces in the same year . In April 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US in Italy , from which he was released in February 1946.

In 1946 Bomski worked in civil engineering in Hoyerswerda, joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and became a member of the SED that same year. Until 1950 he worked as a clerk, later department head at the social insurance fund Hoyerswerda and was then until 1952 personal assistant to the district administrator and secretary at the council of the district of Hoyerswerda. In 1952/53 Bomski was director of the Hoyerswerda community college. In 1953/54 he studied at the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam .

From 1954 to 1958 Bomski was the successor of Margarete Schahn , Lord Mayor of Cottbus. From 1958 to 1960 he was secretary of the Cottbus District Chamber of Crafts and from 1960/61 he worked for the State Planning Commission , District Department, Craft Section and, at the same time, until 1965 as a sector manager and department head for crafts and municipal services at the Economics Council in East Berlin .

In 1965/66 Bomski studied at the party college of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow and was then head of the department for public utilities and head of the office of the GDR Minister for District Industry and Food Industry until 1968. From 1968 he was department head for planning and economics, later head of the trade fair staff and 1973/74 State Secretary in the Ministry for District Industry and Food Industry. In October 1973 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Bomski died at the age of 88 and was buried in the Hoyerswerda forest cemetery.

literature

Andreas Herbst : Herbert Bomski . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Hoyerswerdas Volkshochschule celebrates in the Lausitzer Rundschau on September 16, 2008 (accessed on May 25, 2017).
Herbert Bomski in Cottbus.de (accessed on May 25, 2017).

Individual evidence

↑ To the high effectiveness of the export deals . In: Neue Zeit , September 2, 1972, p. 3.
↑ Joachim Nawrocki: The abolition of the middle class. In: Die Zeit , January 4, 1974 ( online )
↑ High state awards given . In: Neues Deutschland , October 6, 1973, p. 4.
↑ Obituary notice in the weekly courier dated June 4, 2014 (accessed on May 25, 2017).

personal data
SURNAME	Bomski, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SED), Lord Mayor of Cottbus (1954–1958), State Secretary of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monastic Neudorf , district of Hoyerswerda
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 2014

[1] To the high effectiveness of the export deals . In: Neue Zeit , September 2, 1972, p. 3.

[2] Joachim Nawrocki: The abolition of the middle class. In: Die Zeit , January 4, 1974 ( online )

[3] High state awards given . In: Neues Deutschland , October 6, 1973, p. 4.

[4] Obituary notice in the weekly courier dated June 4, 2014 (accessed on May 25, 2017).