Karl-Heinz Drews

With a delegation at the Brandenburg Gate , Berlin 1981

Karl-Heinz Drews (born December 22, 1929 in Stettin ) is a former lieutenant general of the National People's Army and city ​​commander of East Berlin .

Life

Drews was born in Stettin, the son of a saddler. After attending primary and secondary school, he was a motorcyclist in the Volkssturm and the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945 .

After the war he worked as a dairy driver and farm worker in the Osterburg district from 1945 to 1948. In 1948 he joined the SED and as a VP candidate in the German People's Police . After attending political and officer schools, he became a political officer of the Kasernierte People's Police (KVP), and from 1956 of the National People's Army . From 1962 to 1964 he attended the General Staff Academy of the USSR and then held the post of head of the political department of the 4th Motorized Rifle Division until 1967. From 1967 to 1975 he was head of the political administration of the military district V (Neubrandenburg) and in this function was appointed major general in 1969. From 1976 to 1978 he was a military attaché at the embassy of the GDR in the Soviet Union and from September 1978 to December 1989 as the successor to Lieutenant General Artur Kunath City Commander of East Berlin . From 1981 to 1990 he was also a city councilor in East Berlin. In 1981 he was promoted to lieutenant general and retired in December 1989 after reaching the age of 60.

Awards

• 1970 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1979 battle request "For services to the people and fatherland"
• 1984 Scharnhorst Order
• 1986 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

literature

• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 68.
• Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke, (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual . 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 .