Hermann Gerigk

Hermann Gerigk (born May 8, 1924 in Allenstein (East Prussia), † February 5, 1960 in Berlin ) was a functionary of the newly founded CDU Brandenburg and a member of the Brandenburg state parliament and the people 's chamber after the Second World War .

Life

Hermann Gerigk was the Hitler Youth leader in East Prussia during the Nazi era . After 1945 he became a member of the CDU. He worked as a new teacher and became the school director in Eberswalde . He worked as an informal employee of the KGB and provided the occupying power with spy reports on the Brandenburg CDU. As part of the DC circuit of the CDU Gerigk made a career move 1950th

He ran as district chairman of the CDU in Potsdam . Although received Ludwig construction (which should perish later in custody) significantly more votes than Gerigk, but the specific SMAD Gerigk as county chairman. He was senior councilor in the Ministry of Culture and from March 1950 to December 1950 at the age of 26 mayor of Potsdam.

The previous CDU mayor of Potsdam, Erwin Köhler , was arrested in March 1950 after being denounced by Hermann Gerigk. With him, a number of CDU city councilors were arrested, including Franz Schleusener . Schleusener died in the " Lindenhotel " in GDR custody. Erwin Köhler and his wife Charlotte sentenced a Soviet military tribunal to death. Both were shot in Moscow in 1951.

On May 24, 1950, Hermann Gerigk replaced Karl Grobbel as state chairman of the Brandenburg CDU. After the state elections in the GDR in 1950 , he was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and became deputy president of the parliament. In the same year he also became a member of the first regular People's Chamber, after having been a member of the People's Council and the Provisional People's Chamber the year before.

He was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ and the Central Committee of the Eastern CDU. In 1952 he was removed from his offices and mandates.

On the 75th German Catholic Congress in Berlin he was arrested and sat from August 1952 to March 1953 in West Berlin in custody . After a short stay in Vechta , he headed a Catholic boys' high school in West Germany . From 1957 to 1960 Gerigk worked as a cityscape explorer in Berlin. In 1960 he was arrested again in West Berlin for having forged identity documents with him. He poisoned himself in custody. Western media suspected an intelligence background.

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Gerigk, Hermann . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Karl Wilhelm Fricke (ed.): Opposition and resistance in the GDR . Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47619-8 , pp. 72-73.
• Jürgen Köhler: My father was snow white - reconstruction of a political murder . (PDF; 1.31 MB) p. 21 ff.
• Michael Richter: The Eastern CDU 1948–1952 between resistance and conformity . 2nd Edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0945-2 , p. 416 (short biography).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arsenij Roginski, Jörg Rudolph, Frank Drauschke, Anne Kaminsky (eds.): Shot in Moscow ... The German victims of Stalinism in the Moscow Donskoye cemetery 1950–1953 . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 230
2. ↑ kas.de (PDF)
3. ↑ Poisoned in the detention cell . ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 6, 1960