Horst Schmitt (party official)

This article deals with the party official Horst Schmitt. For other people see Horst Schmidt .

Horst Schmitt (left), next to Herbert Mies at the GDR state ceremony for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987

Horst Schmitt (born September 3, 1925 in Berlin , † April 22, 1989 in Berlin) was a German SED and SEW functionary.

Life

Schmitt grew up as the son of a worker in Berlin-Schöneberg . His family was persecuted by the Nazi regime and Schmitt was sent to various labor camps in 1944/1945. After the end of the war and the Nazi regime, he joined the SED in 1946. After initially being employed by an authority, he soon became a full-time party official . 1952 Schmitt became district chairman in the SED district association Tempelhof . In 1958 the West Berlin SED began to separate from the SED in the GDR and East Berlin, which resulted in the establishment of a West Berlin party leadership. Schmitt had been a member of the secretariat of the West Berlin party leadership since 1959. In April 1977 he was elected one of the two deputy chairmen of the party that has since been renamed SEW. After the death of the SEW party chairman, Gerhard Danelius , in the summer of 1978, Schmitt was elected to this office. In the following years, more and more members left the SEW and in the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives , the party only achieved a voter share of less than 1%. Schmitt appeared occasionally through articles in the SED central organ Neues Deutschland . In 1985 he was awarded the Karl Marx Order .

Schmitt was married and had a daughter. He died in Berlin in April 1989 at the age of 63.

literature

• Andreas Schulze: Small parties in Germany. The rise and fall of non-established political associations. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8244-4558-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Schmitt , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1989 of June 12, 1989, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on June 4, 2017 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ↑ Horst Schmitt was honored with the Karl Marx Order New Germany on September 5, 1985