Julius Cebulla

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Julius Johannes Cebulla (born June 30, 1917 in Brinnitz ; † March 24, 1999 ) was a German SED functionary.

Life

The son of a worker completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter after attending primary school and then worked in this profession. After he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in 1937, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1938 , where he served as a soldier through the entire Second World War until 1945 . In the subsequent Soviet captivity until 1949, he attended an anti- fascist school.

After his return to Germany , he joined the German People's Police (DVP) as a guard and was soon promoted to head of command and then to house commandant. In the same year he completed a one-year course at the Higher Police School in Dessau- Kochstedt. He was then head of division and instructor in the DVP's head office between 1950 and 1953 and was promoted to captain after joining the SED in 1951.

In 1953 he switched to the traffic department of the Central Committee of the SED as an instructor and was appointed deputy head of this department on July 15, 1954. After studying at the Karl Marx party college from 1956 to 1959, from which he graduated as a social scientist, he was again deputy head of the Central Committee's Department of Transport between 1959 and 1985. During this time he was also an unscheduled aspirant at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was awarded a Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate .

From 1985 to 1989 Cebulla was head of the traffic department of the Central Committee of the SED and thus successor to Josef Steidl . The transport department was responsible for the financial support (provision of material resources, especially for the work of the DKP and SEW ) and the care of the communist and socialist parties in western 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 its own courier service. In this function he worked closely with the Commercial Coordination department under Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . Cebulla was responsible for human resources and Schalck-Golodkowski for economic matters. In 1989 he was followed by the previous head of the Central Committee's department for international politics and economics, Gunter Rettner , in this position.

In 1987 he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Committees of the SED for work in the West
  2. Billions with KoKo - The secret business of Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski . In: Spiegel special , No. 2/1990
  3. Berliner Zeitung , June 26, 1987, p. 4