Johannes Döhler (politician)

Johannes Döhler (born June 9, 1926 in Sosa ) is a former politician of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1963 to 1971 , but was expelled from the party in 1980 for criticizing agricultural decisions.

Life

Döhler, the son of a route attendant, trained as a carpenter after elementary school from 1940 to 1943 . In 1943/44 he was obliged to do the Reich Labor Service . In October 1944 he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and fought as a simple soldier in World War II . In 1945 he fell into British captivity , was later handed over to the French occupation forces and was employed as a compulsory farm worker on a French farm.

In October 1948 he was dismissed, returned to Germany and received a new farmer position . Because of a serious illness in his wife, he gave it up again. Until 1954 he worked as a carpenter, bricklayer and training instructor at SAG Wismut in Riesa . Then he became a clerk and from 1955 instructor in the agriculture department at the council of the district of Oschatz .

Döhler became a candidate in 1955 and a member of the SED in 1956. After he was accepted as a member of the Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) "Helmut Just" in Börln in the Oschatz district in 1956 , he was its chairman from 1957 to 1961. At the farmers' congress in Rostock in 1960, Walter Ulbricht awarded him the honorary title of hero of work . In January 1962 he took over the chairmanship of the neighboring LPG "Walter Ulbricht" in Dahlen . The LPG management with Johannes Döhler received the GDR National Prize from Walter Ulbricht in October 1963 . In 1964 he graduated from the Hohenlehen agricultural college and became a state-certified farmer .

From 1962 to 1964 Döhler was a member of the SED district leadership in Leipzig and from January 1963 to June 1971 a member of the Central Committee of the SED and the Agriculture Council of the GDR . In 1980 he was relieved of all functions and expelled from the SED for “rejecting new agricultural policy objectives”. A short time later he became a disability pensioner.

literature

• Elke Reuter:  Johannes Döhler . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 .
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .