Hermann Goeck
Hermann Göck (born April 11, 1913 in Elmshorn ; † 1991 ?) Was a German politician ( SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .
Life
Göck was born the son of a locksmith. Like his father, he learned the trade of a locksmith. In addition, he also worked as a machine builder and lathe operator. In 1930 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany and the German Metalworkers Association .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Göck took part in the communist resistance. In December 1934 he was arrested and taken to the Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp together with Reinhold Jürgensen . In the “trial against Offenborn and others”, Göck was sentenced to three years in prison for “preparation for high treason ” . He served his sentence in Fuhlsbüttel and in the Esterwegen and Aschendorfermoor camps . After his release in December 1937, he was placed under police supervision. His father Georg Göck (* 1883) was a member of the KPD and was sentenced to two years in prison in the same process. He died of the consequences of imprisonment in 1945. Georg and Hermann Göck were temporarily imprisoned together in the Esterwegen concentration camp.
In 1945 Hermann Göck joined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED. He exercised various state and diplomatic functions: Among other things, he was deputy mayor of Hagenow and in 1948 became district administrator in Neubrandenburg. In the early 1950s he was first secretary of the GDR embassy in Romania . Göck completed a distance learning course , which he completed as a lawyer.
From 1955 to 1959 he was secretary and then from 1959 to 1962 first deputy chairman of the council of the Neubrandenburg district . From 1955 to 1963 he was also a member of the district assembly . From 1962 he was a member and from 1964 to February 1974 chairman of the District Revision Commission of the SED. Subsequently, Göck was a member of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg from February 1974 to 1989, where he was chairman of the commission for the care of old deserving party members. At the same time he acted from 1974 to 1989 as a member of the central management and as district chairman of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters .
Awards
- Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 (1958)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1959) and gold (1973)
- Fritz Heckert Medal (1963)
- Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1978)
- Artur Becker Gold Medal (1979)
- Karl Marx Order (1983)
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 109.
- 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. 105.
- 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 , p. 229.
- Dirk Lüerßen: "We are the moor soldiers ". The inmates of the early concentration camps in Emsland from 1933 to 1936 . University of Osnabrück, dissertation 2001, p. 289.
Individual evidence
- ^ Marianne Kösters: Say goodbye. Memories of deceased bog soldiers . In: DIZ-Nachrichten (edited by the Action Committee for a Documentation and Information Center Emslandlager eV, Papenburg) 1991, No. 21, p. 34 (could not be viewed).
- ↑ Stolpersteine in Elmshorn (PDF; 645 kB).
- ^ New Germany of April 11, 1988.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goeck, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) and resistance fighters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elmshorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1991 |