Horst Sylla

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Horst Sylla (born February 11, 1933 in Hindenburg OS ) is a former lieutenant general of the National People's Army . He was head of the GDR military district V (1985–1990).

Life

Origin and education

Horst Sylla was born on February 11, 1933 in the town of Hindenburg OS (Upper Silesia; today: Zabrze) as the son of a miner and grew up in a simple family. After eight classes, he finished school and from 1947 to 1950 learned to be an electrical machine builder . At the beginning of his apprenticeship in 1947 he became a member of the youth association Free German Youth.

From 1950 to 1951 he retrained as a boring machine lathe operator and worked from 1951 to 1953 in what would later become VEB Starkstromanlagenbau "Otto Buchwitz" in Dresden.

Military career

With his voluntary entry, Horst Sylla became a member of the CIP of the GDR on January 23, 1953 . After completing basic military training, he was trained as a trainee  / officer student at the tank schools in Güstrow-Priemerwald and Großenhain from 1953 to 1954 . In 1954 he became a member of the SED .

After being appointed officer (1954), Sylla was employed in his first officer service as a platoon leader of an armored train in the heavy Panzer SFL regiment (sPzSFL-Rgt) of the Mechanized Division (MechD) in the KVP office in Dresden.

At the beginning of 1956 he was transferred to the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR, at Spremberg (dsb - Grodk, Niederlausitz) in the 14th Panzer Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division (NVA) , where he served as the company commander of the regiment's reconnaissance company. From 1957 to 1960 Sylla was employed as a specialist teacher / trainer for tank officers at the tank school in Grossenhain and completed her secondary school leaving certificate while working.

From 1960 to 1964 Horst Sylla completed a direct study for troop commanders of the operational-tactical management level at the military academy "Friedrich Engels" in Dresden , which he graduated in 1964 at the Faculty of Land Forces with a diploma in military science (Dipl. Rer. Mil.).

Horst Sylla then continued his troop service in the 4th Motorized Rifle Division (4th MSD, staff in Erfurt) in various positions: 1st Deputy Commander (1964–1968) and Commander (1968–1971) in the 4th Panzer Regiment at the site Gotha.

After a year of preparation (1971) in Moscow , Horst Sylla graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR "K. J. Voroshilov “ an operational-strategic command training (1972–1974), which he completed with a further diploma as a military scientist.

After completing his general staff training, he was employed as deputy commander for training (1974–1977) of the 4th Mot Rifle Division in Erfurt. With the transfer to the military district V of the GDR, to Eggesin , Sylla took over as commander of the 9th Panzer Division (9th PD) . On October 7, 1979, Sylla was appointed general.

From 1983 to 1985 Sylla was employed as a commander at the officers' college of the land forces "Ernst Thälmann" in Löbau .

In the period 1985/86 he was employed at the Neubrandenburg location as deputy to the chief and chief of staff of military district V and one year later he became chief MB V (Neubrandenburg). In this function he was in the case of defense the commander of the 5th Army of the NVA in the coalition group of the armed forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. On March 1, 1988, Horst Sylla was promoted to lieutenant general.

Before the NVA was decommissioned in the course of establishing the unity of Germany, Horst Sylla was released from the GDR's National People's Army on September 30, 1990 at the age of 57.

Security policy work

In 2004, Sylla became a member of the Dresden Study Group Security Policy (DSS) e. V. and was a member of the board from 2005 until it was dissolved in 2015. He has published articles in several issues of the DSS working papers and moderated the annual public panel on the World Day of Peace in September (2008–2013) in Dresden.

Awards (GDR)

literature

Publications (selection)

  • (SLUB) The realignment of the Bundeswehr - reform of the century or interim solution? In: The realignment of the Bundeswehr - position and opposition. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, Issue 107, Dresden 2013, pp. 37–51. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-324662
  • (SLUB) On the security and military policy of China. In: The rise of China to a world power and the opportunities for a global peace order. Contributions to the 17th Dresden Symposium For a Global Peace Order on November 17, 2012. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, Issue 106, Dresden 2012, pp. 69–79. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-339874
  • (SLUB) Military academic training and military practice. In: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels". Historical-critical review of the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Contributions to the colloquium on January 10, 2009 in Dresden City Hall. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, issue 95, Dresden 2009, pp. 226–236. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-321515
  • The NATO alliance for a violent reorganization of the world. In: NATO before new decisions. Contributions from the podium on the World Day of Peace on September 1, 2008 in the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, issue 91, Dresden 2008, pp. 31–38.
  • In the sights - military power struggle in 30 years. In: Germany - European civil power or global military power? Contributions to the 16th Dresden Peace Symposium on February 16, 2008. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, No. 90, Dresden 2008, pp. 22–29.
  • (SLUB) Like a phoenix from the ashes - militarization of the FRG. In: Militarism and Antimilitarism Today. Contributions to the 12th Dresden Symposium For a Global Peace Order on November 17, 2007. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, Issue 89, Dresden 2008, pp. 41–46. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340329
  • (SLUB) 50th anniversary of the founding of the National People's Army - a look back. In: 50th anniversary of the NVA views and ratings. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V: DSS working papers, Issue 80, Dresden 2006, pp. 25–49. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-324760
  • With Horst Ullrich / Gunter Starke: Reliably protected between the Baltic Sea Harz and Oder. On the history of the military district V (Neubrandenburg). A representation of contemporary witnesses. Self-published by Barnewitz 2006, pp. 327–345.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See biographical information in: Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke: Die Generale und Admirale der NVA. A biographical manual. 5th revised edition. Links, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g See biographical information from an interview with Horst Sylla on May 23, 2020.
  3. ^ The people of March 1, 1976.
  4. ↑ dsb stands for Lower Sorbian language : Lower Sorbian dolnoserbšćina (ISO-639-3 code)
  5. ↑ See the biographical data of Horst Sylla. In: Wolfgang Scheler et al. (Red.): For the demilitarization of security. 25 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. (DSS). A résumé. In: (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., DSS Working Papers, Issue 115, Dresden 2015, p 160. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-321465
  6. ↑ a b See the biographical data of Horst Sylla. In: Wolfgang Scheler et al. (Red.): For the demilitarization of security. 20 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. (DSS). In: (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., DSS Working Papers, Issue 100, Dresden 2010, p 160. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-327018
  7. ^ A b Ministry for National Defense of the GDR (MfNV): location database of the National People's Army of the GDR . Abbreviation MAFE. Ed .: Military History Research Office MGFA. ( mgfa.de ).
  8. ↑ See order 28/90 MfAV of August 15, 1990. In: (Ed.) BUNDESARCHIV - MILITÄRARCHIV: Nationale Volksarmee. Stock DVW 1, Ministry of Disarmament and Defense, Volume: Minister of Disarmament and Defense, Parliamentary State Secretary, Chief of the National People's Army. Edited by Albrecht Kästner, Freiburg 1999, introduction p. V. URL: php.isn.ethz.ch
  9. ↑ See authors of the DSS working papers Horst Sylla. In: Wolfgang Scheler et al. (Red.): For the demilitarization of security. 25 years of the Dresden Study Group on Security Policy V. (DSS). A résumé. In: (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V., DSS Working Papers, Issue 115, Dresden 2015, p 244. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-321465
  10. ↑ a b c d e (SLUB) = online catalog. Writings by Horst Sylla in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
  11. ↑ See footnote to the publication by Horst Sylla et al. In: Wilfried Schreiber: From a military doctrine of deterrence to guiding principles of demilitarized security (1987–1990). A contemporary witness report. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS papers, Issue 86, Dresden 2007, p 20. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14 qucosa2-340248
personal data
SURNAME Sylla, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the NVA
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg OS