Karl-Heinz Schulmeister

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Karl-Heinz Schulmeister in the People's Chamber (1962)

Karl-Heinz Schulmeister (born May 6, 1925 in Bützow ; † July 17, 2017 in Bad Saarow ) was a German politician . For many years he was the first Federal Secretary of the Kulturbund der GDR and represented it as parliamentary group chairman and member of the Presidium for decades in the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Karl-Heinz Schulmeister was born as the third son of a teacher in Bützow, Mecklenburg . He attended elementary and high school and passed the Abitur. From 1942 to 1945 he did military service as an air officer in the Wehrmacht .

In 1946 Schulmeister became a member of the SED and a member of the newly founded Kulturbund, for which he worked from 1946 to 1948, initially as local secretary and later as district secretary in the Schwerin district . At the same time he worked until 1948 as a consultant in the information department of the state government of Mecklenburg. He then headed the Mecklenburg State Association of the Kulturbund until 1952. From 1950 until the dissolution of the state parliament in June 1952, he represented the Kulturbund as a member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . With the establishment of districts, Schulmeister moved to the Rostock district , where he headed the Kulturbund as district secretary until 1954. At the same time he was a member of the Rostock district assembly .

1954 to 1955 he completed a course at the central school of the Central Committee of the SED in Erfurt. In 1955 he was appointed Federal Secretary of the Kulturbund, and in May 1957 he was appointed 1st Federal Secretary (successor to Karl Kneschke ). With the beginning of the 3rd electoral term of the Volkskammer in 1958 he became a member of the Kulturbund and remained that way for seven electoral terms until March 1990. In the period from 1959 to 1965, Schulmeister completed a distance learning course at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he also completed the title of graduate historian. After the death of Erich Wendt in 1965, he took over the parliamentary group chairmanship of the Kulturbund in the Volkskammer. In 1969 Schulmeister moved up to the Presidium of the People's Chamber through an expansion. Schulmeister became a Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold and in 1985 the Bar of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1982 Schulmeister was appointed professor at Humboldt University. In 1986 he was elected 1st Vice President of the Kulturbund.

Shop window of the Kulturbund in Güstrow with an invitation to a discussion with schoolmaster on November 9, 1989

Schulmeister survived the political turnaround in autumn 1989 relatively unscathed. When examining Stalinist management methods in the Kulturbund , no evidence was found for the misconduct alleged to be committed. As one of only three members of the old People's Chamber Presidium, he was also elected to the new Presidium on November 13, 1989. In 1990 Schulmeister retired, initially living in Eichwalde near Berlin and from 2014 in a senior citizens' home in Bad Saarow.

Schoolmaster died at the age of 92 in Bad Saarow.

Fonts

  • On the emergence and foundation of the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . German Cultural Association, Berlin 1965.
  • On the way to a new culture. The Kulturbund from 1945–1949 . Dietz, Berlin 1977.
  • The tasks of the Kulturbund in the developed socialist society of the GDR. Presentation at the central conference with the chairmen and members of the district and district revision commissions of the Kulturbund of the GDR from November 16 to 18, 1978 in Magdeburg . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1979.
  • Introduction . In: Institute for Marixmus-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED and the Kulturbund der DDR (Ed.): "... the beginning of a new time". Memories of the beginnings of our cultural revolution 1945–1949 . Structure, Berlin / Weimar 1981, pp. 5-31.
  • Between hope and disappointment. Arnold Zweig's work in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Helle Panke, Berlin 1999 (= Pankower lectures, issue 16).
  • On the work of Max Burghardt in the Kulturbund in the 1960s. Contemplation of a contemporary witness. In: Siegfried Prokop, Dieter Zänker: Lost dreams. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Kulturbund. Homilius, Berlin 2007. pp. 97-137.
  • Encounters in the Kulturbund . Homilius, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-89706-827-8 .
  • “When I hear the name Willi Bredel, it makes my heart warm.” Interview with Prof. Karl Heinz Schulmeister . In: Newsletter of the Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft , 23rd vol. (2012), pp. 44–49.
  • Willi Bredel and Adam Scharrer. Two working-class writers in the fight against war and fascism . In: Circular letter of the Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft , 24th year (2013), pp. 42–47.
  • Willi Bredel and Karl Kleinschmidt - a special friendship . In: Newsletter of the Willi-Bredel-Gesellschaft , Vol. 25 (2014), pp. 16-21.
  • Memories of Klaus Gysi , on his 100th birthday on March 3, 2012.
  • Hans Pischner - On his work in the Kulturbund , on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 2014.

literature

  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 .
  • Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Schoolmaster, Karl-Heinz . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (ed.): The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 9th legislative term . Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1987, p. 561.
  • 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. 309.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 2, 1985, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, July 29, 2017, p. 20
  3. ^ "Reception for the 90th birthday". In: Märkische Oderzeitung from May 7, 2015.
  4. ^ Obituary notice in the Märkische Oderzeitung from July 22, 2017 (accessed on July 30, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Schoolmaster, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, functionary of the Kulturbund of the GDR and member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bützow
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2017
Place of death Bad Saarow