Herbert Paulsen
Herbert Paulsen (born January 3, 1901 in Dresden ; † June 12, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism , a people's police officer and a sports official in the GDR .
Life
The son of a working class family worked as a farm worker, machinist and clerk after attending school. After the Kapp Putsch , he was involved in the Central German uprising in March 1921 . During this time he became a member of the KPD in 1921 . He then left Saxony and went to Mecklenburg, where he became a KPD functionary in Barth and a member of the KPD sub-district leadership in Stralsund .
After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he made illegal anti-fascist resistance work and was in the concentration camp Hohnstein detained. After his release, he was unemployed. He was arrested again in 1942 and imprisoned in Waldheim prison until the end of the war .
After his liberation in 1945, Paulsen was first mayor of the city district in Dresden and joined the German People's Police (DVP) in the same year . He worked in the State Administration of Saxony in the Interior Department and was promoted from the Police Council to the Ministerial Council on November 28, 1945. In April 1946 he became a member of the SED and in 1948 deputy chief of the security police in Saxony. From 1950 to 1952 he was chief inspector of the VP chief of the DVP state authority in Saxony-Anhalt. After the districts were formed in the GDR, in July 1952 he became head of the district authority of the German People's Police (BDVP) for the Magdeburg district and a member of the SED district leadership. As police chief in the Magdeburg district, during the popular uprising of 1953, Paulsen prevented the people's police from using firearms and tried, together with the chairman of the Magdeburg district council, Josef Hegen , to calm the demonstrators. Because of "fluctuating attitude and violation of vigilance on June 17, 1953" Paulsen was expelled from the SED district leadership in August 1953, replaced as police chief by Alfred Dahl and released from the People's Police.
Later he was a full-time functionary of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST). From 1956 to 1963 he was department head and member of the secretariat of the central board of GST and chairman of the GST district board in Berlin. From October 1958 to April 1965 he was President of the German Shooting Association (DSV) in the GDR. He did not run for health reasons and then became an honorary member of the DSV presidium and later honorary president of the DSV.
At the beginning of March 1965, as major general of the VP a. D. and inmate of the VdN sanatorium "Carl von Ossietzky" in Sülzhayn of the GDR border troops stationed there on the 9th anniversary of the NVA .
Paulsen died at the age of 78 and was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde .
Awards
- Medal for participation in the armed struggles of the German working class from 1918 to 1923
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945
- 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and later in gold
literature
- 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 , pp. 252-253.
- Herbert Paulsen in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Congratulations on your 60th birthday, Neues Deutschland , January 3, 1961, p. 2.
- ^ Neue Zeit , April 6, 1965, p. 8.
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 13, 1965, p. 11.
- ^ Obituary notice, Neues Deutschland , June 21, 1979, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paulsen, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paulsen, Herbert Christian Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter, police officer and sports official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1979 |
| Place of death | Berlin |