Johannes Dick
Johannes Viktor Dick (born July 8, 1910 in Chemnitz , † November 26, 1963 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ), head of the People's Police in Saxony and a diplomat .
Life
Dick, the son of an iron machinist, attended elementary school. He had to break off the tailoring apprenticeship that was started afterwards . From 1926 to 1929 he worked in a textile machine factory in Chemnitz as a trained locksmith. In 1924 he joined the SAJ . In 1927 he became a member of the Red Aid and in 1928 a member of the Freethinkers Association and the Red Young Front. In 1930 he joined the KPD and from 1931 was deployed in the defense apparatus of the KPD (code name Viktor).
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he illegally continued his work for the KPD. In 1934 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia , but returned to Germany by party decision and was arrested and sentenced in 1935. He spent his sentence in the Waldheim penitentiary . He was then taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , and to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War . In March 1945 he was used as a prisoner by the Waffen SS as a courier for the front and defected to the Red Army .
In August 1945, Dick returned to his hometown of Chemnitz from captivity . As a member of the People's Police (VP), he was appointed Police President of Chemnitz in 1948 (successor to Fredo Ritscher ). After graduating from the Higher Police School in Berlin , he became chief inspector of the VP and chief of the VP in the state of Saxony in 1949 . From 1952 to 1956 he headed the passport and registration department in the Ministry of the Interior .
In 1957 Dick joined the diplomatic service of the GDR and was employed as Consul General in Bratislava from July 1957 to October 1958 . From November 1958 to 1960 he was ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic . In July 1960 the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED confirmed the recall of Dick as ambassador for health reasons and his assignment to the Ministry of the Interior. Dick returned to the Ministry of the Interior and worked from 1961 to 1963 with the rank of major general as deputy head of the main cadre department in the main administration of the German People's Police. He last lived as major general a. D. in Berlin.
Awards and honors
- Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1955) and in silver (1960)
- In the Fritz-Heckert area in Chemnitz, a street is named after Dick.
literature
- Revolutionary fighters. Biographical sketches 2: Johanna Claus to Kurt Zierold . District leadership of the SED, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1972.
- Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 886.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 120.
- Siegfried Bock , Ingrid Muth , Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, p. 297 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minutes No. 30/60 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on 12./13. July 1960.
- ^ New Germany from December 1 and 12, 1963.
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dick, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dick, Johannes Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD / SED), head of the VP in Saxony, diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1963 |