Ivan Sasonowitsch Kolesnichenko
Ivan Sasonowitsch Kolesnichenko ( Russian Иван Сазонович Колесниченко , scientific transliteration Ivan Sazonovič Kolesničenko ) (born March 6 . Jul / 19th March 1907 greg. In Glubotschek (now Oblast Vinnytsia , Ukraine); † 13 August 1984 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian Guard major general of the Soviet Union and head of administration of the Soviet Military Administration (SMA) of Thuringia based in Weimar .
Life
Kolesnichenko attended an agricultural school and completed a degree . In 1922 he joined the Komsomol and in 1926 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). After serving in the Air Force , he became a career officer in 1932 . From 1941 to 1945 he was a member of the War Council of the 63rd Army, later a member of the 3rd Guard Army, with which he reached Prague towards the end of the war .
Working in the SBZ
On July 9, 1945, General Kolesnitschenko was appointed head of administration in Thuringia on the orders of the SMAD.
From the beginning, Kolesnitschenko was open to German wishes for the restoration of scientific research and the protection of the cultural heritage in Thuringia. The early restoration of the classical memorials in Jena and Weimar was due to his determination .
In particular, Kolesnitschenko's work found an echo among German citizens right up to the ranks of the SED when he spoke out against the arbitrary arrest of people and their uncontrollable disappearance. The historian Ludwig Elm quotes from a memorandum of Kolesnitschenko from November 1947. In it he states that
- “... that both the broad mass of Germans and the progressive part of the German population disapprove of the actions of our security organs; not to mention that these methods feed anti-Soviet propaganda both in our zone and in the rest of Germany ” .
Kolesnitschenko's administrative activities ended on November 12, 1949, and since then he has been chairman of the Soviet control commission for the government of Thuringia and the subsequent territorial administration of the three newly formed districts of Erfurt , Gera and Suhl until the formal release of the later GDR from the Soviet occupation sovereignty .
Publications
- In the common struggle for anti-fascist Germany our friendship was consolidated , = contributions to the history of Thuringia, Erfurt 1985
- The new beginning of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena near the Second World War , in: Rector of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Ed.): New beginning. The help of the Soviet Union in the reopening of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (= Jenaer Reden und Schriften 1977), Jena 1977, pp. 9–26.
- Битва после войны , Москва 1987 ( Post-War Battle, Moscow 1987)
literature
- Jürgen John , Reinhard Lonscher , Heinz Mestrup , Axel Stelzner : History in data. Thuringia , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-932412-38-9 .
- Short biography about: Kolesnitschenko, Iwan Sasonowitsch . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Honors
- Honorary citizenship of Weimar, granted on April 12, 1965
- Honorary citizenship of Jena, awarded on October 7, 1969
Individual evidence
- ^ Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Weimar 1998. ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 256
- ↑ Author collective, history in data. Thuringia, p. 260
- ↑ http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2070/1/Becker_Maximilian.pdf
- ↑ http://weimar.vvn-bda.de/artikel/2008/20080721.html
- ↑ Author collective, history in data. Thuringia, p. 271
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolesnichenko, Ivan Sasonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Колесниченко, Иван Сазонович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian military and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glubotschek, today Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1984 |
| Place of death | Moscow |