Jonny Löhr

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Löhr (3rd from right) as a member of the Presidium at the constitution of the Provisional People's Chamber on October 7, 1949

Jonny Löhr (born February 20, 1899 in Hamburg , † July 15, 1967 in Berlin ) was a GDR politician of the NDPD block party . He was a member of the People's Chamber and a member of its Presidium.

Life

Jonny Löhr was born into a working-class family. After attending the elementary and trade school in his place of birth, he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith from 1913 to 1916. In 1913 he became a member of the SAJ . He earned his living as a heating fitter until 1917, after which he was drafted into military service. Influenced by the experiences of the First World War , he joined the KJVD after his return and in 1921 and 1923 held the position of head of intelligence for the KJV district of Wasserkante. In 1922 he joined the KPD . From 1922 to 1925 he attended evening school in Hamburg. This was followed by engineering studies at the higher mechanical engineering school in Leipzig until 1928 . After receiving his engineering degree, Löhr was delegated to the International Lenin School on behalf of the Communist International , of which he was a collaborator . During this stay he also received Soviet citizenship. He then went to Romania , where he worked on behalf of the Comintern until 1930. Because of his work, Löhr was arrested in October 1930 and sentenced to ten years of forced labor in June 1931 for high treason . He served the full term of imprisonment up to 1940 in the prisons of Aiud and Doftana , most of the years together with the Romanian Communist Party functionary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej . As an engineer, he was often ordered to do repairs of all kinds and thus had a little more freedom of movement than most other prisoners. During his imprisonment in Romania he also became a member of the Romanian Communist Party, which he remained until 1941. Released from prison, Löhr went back to the USSR in Moldova, which borders Romania . There he worked initially as an engineer in the municipal construction office of the city of Kishinev until 1941 , later at the Moldavian State Bank as a senior engineer for the construction sector. From 1942 to 1944 he worked as a senior political instructor of the NKVD among German prisoners of war and then in the NKFD and as a teacher at Institute No. 99 in Moscow.

In June 1945 Löhr returned to Germany and initially worked for the KPD and became a member of the SED with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD . He was ordered by his party to Mecklenburg and worked as an employee of the KPD state board of Mecklenburg. In 1946 he moved to the state government of Mecklenburg and worked as head of the industrial department in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 1948 Löhr went to the Mecklenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was its vice-president until 1950. In June 1948 he became a co-founder of the NDPD on behalf of the Soviet Union, and since then has been a member of its main committee and chairman of the Mecklenburg State Association.

With the start of the work of the 2nd German People's Council, he represented his party as a member of parliament. In the Provisional People's Chamber from October 1949 until his appointment to Romania in the spring of 1950, he was one of the three deputies of the President of the Provisional People's Chamber and thus a member of its executive committee. In the spring of 1950 Löhr returned to old places of work. On April 1, 1950, he was appointed envoy and head of the GDR's diplomatic mission in Romania and then resigned from his seat as a member of the People's Chamber. His successor as Vice-President of the People's Chamber was Heinrich Homann on April 19, 1950 . In March 1951, however, after a good 10 months, Löhr was recalled at the Romanian request for "violating vigilance". He was initially entrusted with the post of director of DIA Transportmaschinen . In 1953 he moved to the GDR Chamber of Commerce and worked as its vice-president until 1958. Subsequently, Jonny Löhr devoted himself mainly to his political offices until his death. On April 21, 1954, at the 46th session of the People's Chamber, he was again confirmed as the Berlin Representative and Member of the People's Chamber (successor to Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz ). From the 2nd electoral period in 1954, Löhr again represented his party as a member of the People's Chamber until his death. On August 13, 1955 he was elected deputy chairman of the group of representatives of Berlin in the People's Chamber. At the beginning of the 4th electoral term in November 1963 he was re-elected as the NDPD representative in the Presidium of the People's Chamber. Within the party, Löhr sat on the highest body of the NDPD, the party executive, from 1955. From 1963 he also held the office of secretary of the main committee of the NDPD and headed the party control commission of the NDPD as chairman.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Jonny Löhr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from July 18, 1967
  2. ^ New Germany of March 21, 1965
  3. ^ New Germany of April 20, 1950
  4. ^ Berliner Zeitung of April 22, 1954
  5. ↑ On various occasions one can read of Löhr's continuous parliamentary activity from 1949 to 1967
  6. ^ New Germany of August 14, 1955
personal data
SURNAME Löhr, Jonny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NDPD), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1967
Place of death Berlin