Hermann Streit

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Hermann Streit (born June 19, 1909 in Greisitz , † November 21, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German fighter and politician ( SED ). From 1950 to 1958 he was State Secretary for the collection and purchase of agricultural products in the GDR Ministry for Trade and Supply .

Life

Streit, the son of a factory worker, trained as a textile worker after attending elementary school from 1923 to 1925. In 1927 he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and an honorary KPD functionary. Streit was arrested in 1930 and sentenced to nine months in prison for “serious riot”. In a second trial in 1930 he was sentenced to 21 months in prison for "serious and dangerous bodily harm resulting in death" in a dispute with the SA . After his release from prison in the summer of 1932, he was head of the organization of the KPD in Breslau until March 1933.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists he performed from March 1933 illegal resistance work as an instructor of the KPD district headquarters Wroclaw. In January 1934 he emigrated to the USSR. There he received training as a lathe operator in the agricultural machine factory in Saratov in 1934/35. In 1935/36 he was a student at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMS) in Moscow. In September 1936 he went to Spain and took part in the Spanish Civil War as an interbrigadist . From September 1936 to March 1937 he was head of cadre work in the Thälmann battalion . He was then responsible for the censorship of all German-language correspondence of the interbrigades in Albacete. After a course at the Pozo Rubio officers' school in Albacete, he became a German instructor for the XI. Brigade . At the beginning of April 1938 he was taken prisoner near Batea (Parragona) and was interned in Spain until 1941. In November 1941 he was extradited to the Gestapo and transferred to Germany. In 1942 he was sentenced to two years in prison for “preparing for high treason”. He served his prison sentence in Liegnitz, Breslau and Glatz and was taken to Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944 , where he was a block elder, a member of the illegal party leadership and later a member of the illegal military leadership.

After his liberation, he went to Berlin in July 1945. He became a member of the KPD again and in 1946 of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). On March 1, 1946, he succeeded Heinrich Rau as head of the nutrition, agriculture and forestry department of the Brandenburg provincial administration, then as of January 1, 1949 as the main department head for trade and supply or as ministerial director and deputy minister in the Ministry of Economic Planning of the Brandenburg state government. After his dismissal, he was chief executive of the central management of the trade organization (HO) for a short time until April 1949 . In this position he was replaced by Paul Baender .

When the main administration for trade and supply of the German Economic Commission (DWK) was divided into three independent main administrations in May 1949, he became head of the main administration for the registration and purchase of agricultural products at the DWK. After the founding of the GDR in October 1949, he was then head of the main department for collecting and buying up agricultural products in the Ministry of Trade and Supply. On November 15, 1950, he became State Secretary of the independent State Secretariat for Registration and Registration at the reorganization of the Grotewohl government. Purchase of agricultural products. He was released from this position on September 24, 1958 and Helmut Koch was appointed as his successor.

Streit was appointed as a member of the SPK and head of the Agriculture and Forestry Department on February 19, 1958 when the State Planning Commission (SPK) was reconstituted , and held this position until 1965.

From 1965 he was a pensioner and a research assistant at the State Committee for the Purchase and Processing of Agricultural Products at the Agriculture Council of the GDR. He last lived in Lehnitz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New head office for registration at the German Economic Commission . In: Neues Deutschland , May 29, 1949, p. 5.
  2. ^ President Wilhelm Pieck swears in the government . In: Neues Deutschland, November 16, 1950, p. 1.
  3. ^ Government declaration by Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl . In: Neues Deutschland, September 25, 1958, p. 4.
  4. ^ Planning committee was constituted . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 20, 1958, p. 1.
  5. ^ Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Hermann Streit . In: Neues Deutschland, June 19, 1989, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Quarrel, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Greisitz
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1996
Place of death Berlin