Horst Schumann (politician)

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In August 1961 Horst Schumann honored members of the transport police for their work in the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Horst Schumann (born February 6, 1924 in Berlin ; † December 28, 1993 there ) was a German politician . In the early days of the GDR, he worked as a youth functionary, co-founder of the FDJ , as first secretary of the FDJ central council and later as an official of the SED .

Life

Schumann's father Georg Schumann was a tool fitter, KPD functionary and resistance fighter against National Socialism . The National Socialists executed him in January 1945. Horst Schumann attended elementary school and learned the piano making trade from 1938 to 1941 . He took part in his father's resistance group, the Schumann-Engert-Kresse Group . In 1944 Schumann was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After liberation from National Socialism , Schumann joined the KPD in 1945 and headed the anti-fascist youth committee in Leipzig . In 1946 he became a member of the SED.

He was one of the founders of the FDJ in Leipzig and was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership there from 1947 to 1948. From 1949 to 1950 he was secretary for young pioneers and schools at the FDJ regional leadership in Saxony , from 1950 to 1953 first secretary in the FDJ regional leadership in Saxony and in the FDJ district leadership in Leipzig. From 1953 he was a member of the committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters . From 1952 to 1967 he was a member of the Central Council of the FDJ, from May 1959 he was its first secretary. From 1954 to 1956 he was head of the youth and sport sector or youth in the department for governing bodies of the Central Committee of the SED. Between 1956 and 1959 he completed his studies at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow , which he finished as a social scientist. 1958/1959 initially a candidate, he was a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1959 to 1989. From 1960 to 1971 he was a member of the State Council of the GDR , first second in 1969/1970, then first secretary of the SED district leadership in Leipzig from 1970 to November 5, 1989. From 1963 to November 7, 1989 he was also a member of the People's Chamber . During the turnaround and peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989, Western observers saw him as a moderate and tolerant SED top functionary. He was not involved in the decisions on the Monday demonstration in Leipzig on October 9, 1989, as he was not on duty due to illness. His deputy, the 2nd secretary of the SED district leadership in Leipzig, Helmut Hackenberg , represented him.

His grave is in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the burial complex for the victims and persecuted of the Nazi regime .

Socialist vigilante justice around 1960

Around the time the Berlin Wall was being built , the SED's central committee introduced a kind of socialist law of thumb , an extrajudicial vigilante justice system to nip politically inconvenient actions in the bud. Schumann supported this idea by writing down the brutal attacks on August 13, 1961 in the form of a combat order:

“There is no discussion with provocateurs. They are first beaten up and then handed over to state organs. [...] Anyone who makes even the slightest derogatory remarks about the Soviet Army, about the best friend of the German people, Comrade NS Khrushchev, or about the Chairman of the State Council, Comrade Walter Ulbricht, must in any case immediately receive the appropriate memorandum. "

Honors

Grave site in the central cemetery Berlin-Friedrichsfelde

literature

Web links

Commons : Horst Schumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL : SED leaders are slowing down the Stasi. Issue 12/1989 accessed February 21, 2014
  2. ↑ Falco Werkentin : "Law of the thumb - A new form of socialist administration of justice". In: Politische Strafjustiz in der Ära Ulbricht , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86153-069-4 , p. 252 ff
  3. ↑ Quoted from Jochen Staadt: The secret western policy of the SED . Berlin 1993, p. 55
  4. ↑ State Council awarded high honors , In: Neues Deutschland , June 17, 1964, p. 1
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 28, 1974, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Schumann, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1993
Place of death Berlin