Josef Steidl

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Josef "Jupp" Steidl (born January 14, 1919 in Münchhof , Czechoslovakia ; † September 4, 1986 in East Berlin ) was a trade union official and politician of the SED .

biography

The son of a miner and a worker in the porcelain industry graduated after attending the elementary school and the public school from 1933 to 1936 an apprenticeship as a car mechanic in Carlsbad . During his training, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) in 1936 and was then its youth secretary from until 1938. After working as a miner, he was a Wehrmacht soldier from April 1939 to March 1945, where he was last corporal . After working in France , Romania , Greece and the Soviet Union during the Second World War he committed in 1945 in March desertion and then participated in military action Czech partisans in part.

After the Second World War he was initially a miner in Czechoslovakia again , but moved to Thuringia in March 1946 , where he first joined the KPD and, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, the SED . At first he worked as a railway maintenance worker and shunter in the railway maintenance department of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in Geußen, but was already a works council in the Reichsbahnamt Erfurt in 1947 . From 1948 to 1950 he was deputy chairman and secretary of the Erfurt regional association of the industrial union (IG) Transport and from 1949 to 1952 chairman of IG Transport in the state of Brandenburg . In 1950 he also became a member of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen und Antifaschisten (VVN). In 1952 he was elected chairman of IG Transport in the Potsdam district and then in 1954 he was appointed head of the department for national trade union work at the federal executive board of the FDGB . In addition to this office, which he held until 1961, he was also a member of the federal executive committee of the FDGB from 1955 to 1968. During this time between 1960 and 1962 he studied at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow .

After his return to the GDR he was head of the trade unions and social policy department of the SED Central Committee from 1962 to 1965 .

In 1965 he was appointed as the successor to Adolf Baier as head of the Central Committee's traffic department and was thus responsible for covert connections and transports to other communist parties. He held this office until 1985. Initially Steidl was subordinate to the Central Committee Secretary for Economics, Günter Mittag , but since 1971 it was directly subordinate to the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Erich Honecker . From this time on, the Transport Department was responsible for financial support (provision of material resources, in particular for the work of the KPD / DKP and SEW ) and the care of the communist and socialist parties in capitalist countries by organizing delegation and vacation stays, medical care, Training, advice and consultations with specialist departments in the Central Committee as well as for maintaining a permanent connection between the party executive boards of the KPD / DKP and the SEW to the Central Committee of the SED through our own courier service. In this function he worked closely with the Commercial Coordination department under Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . On the 50th birthday of Honecker's wife Margot in April 1977, Steidl ordered a jewelry set from one of the Schalck partners, consisting of a necklace, bracelet, brooch, earrings and a ring for 9,405.40 marks.

During his activity as a ZK department head, he completed his studies at the Institute for Social Sciences at the ZK of the SED (IfG) in 1970 , which he completed with the academic degree of a diploma in social science.

He has received several awards for his services to the FDGB and the SED. In 1970 he received not only the NVA Medal of Merit, but also the Soviet commemorative medal “W. I. Lenin ”. In addition, he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold in 1972 and the Karl Marx Order , the most important order in the GDR, in 1979 . Finally, in 1984, he became the Labor Hero .

Josef Steidl's urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Mohnhaupt, Karl A. Mollnau: Law and Jurists in the Mirror of the Resolutions of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED . , 2003, p. 216, ISBN 3-46503241-1
    Dept. of trade unions and social policy at the Central Committee of the SED. FDGB lexicon , working version, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Berlin 2005
  2. ^ Committees of the SED for work in the West ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Ulf Bischof: The art and antiques GmbH in the area of ​​commercial coordination . 2003, ISBN 3-89949-048-7 , pp. 48 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Billions with KoKo-The secret business of Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . In: Spiegel special , 2/1990.
  5. ↑ Andreas Förster: Vodka and caviar in the Kremlin. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 28, 2002, accessed June 9, 2015 .
  6. ^ Fanatics of secrecy. The lucrative business of the GDR State Secretary Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1989 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 21, 1972, p. 2
  8. ↑ High honor for Josef Steidl , In: Neues Deutschland , January 16, 1979, p. 2
  9. ↑ Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Steidl, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steidl, Jupp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchhof , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1986
Place of death East Berlin