Herbert Puchert

Herbert Puchert (born April 2, 1914 in Grunewald , Guben district; † December 31, 1997 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was chairman of the council of the Potsdam district .

Life

Puchert, the son of a hat worker and a cloth worker, attended elementary school and completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator from 1928 to 1932 . From 1932 to 1935 he worked as a lathe operator in Guben , interrupted by the year with the Reich Labor Service (1933/1934). From 1935 to 1945 served Puchert in the armed forces , most recently as sergeant in Perleberger . Artillery Regiment 39. He came in 1945 in Soviet prisoner of war , he remained in until 1949. During this time he worked in a peat warehouse and in the Stalinogorsk shaft warehouse and in 1949 attended the Antifa central school 20/40 in Ogre near Riga .

After his return to Germany in 1949, he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was entrusted with setting up the department of organizational instructors in the Guben district leadership of the SED. In 1951 he was elected second secretary of the SED district leadership in Teltow , and from 1952 to 1954 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Zossen . From 1954 to 1955 he attended a one-year course at the party college "Karl Marx" . From 1955 to 1958 he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Jüterbog . After he was briefly head of the Agriculture Department at the Potsdam District Council in 1958/59, he served as the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Potsdam-Stadt from 1959 to 1962. From December 1962 to June 3, 1971, he served as chairman of the Potsdam district council. At the same time, Puchert was a member of the SED district leadership and his secretariat until May 23, 1971. He was a member of the district assembly and head of civil defense for the Potsdam district. From May 23, 1971 to February 22, 1981 he was chairman of the Potsdam District Revision Commission of the SED. Puchert retired in 1981.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959), in silver (1974) and twice in gold (1979 and 1989)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 274.
• Gabriele Baumgartner: Puchert, Herbert . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 671.
• Andreas Herbst :  Puchert, Herbert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .