Karl Deuscher

Karl Deuscher (born September 13, 1917 in Betzingen , Reutlingen district, † September 17, 1993 ) was a German SED functionary. He was chairman of the Rostock District Council .

Life

Deuscher was born the son of a civil engineering worker and a farm worker. After attending primary school, he learned the trade of cabinet maker and cabinet maker in Reutlingen from 1932 to 1935 . During his apprenticeship he joined the woodworkers' association.

From 1935 to 1938 he worked as a farm worker and as a line or shunting worker for the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1938 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1939 for military service in the Wehrmacht . Deuscher became an American prisoner of war and was interned in the American assembly camp in Regensburg in May 1945 . After his release he worked from 1945 to 1949 as a line worker for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Ludwigslust and Wittenberg .

In 1946 he joined the SPD and became a member of the SED in the same year when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge. In 1949/1950 he was an instructor for the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg . 1950/1951 he studied at the party college "Karl Marx" with a degree in social science . From 1951 to 1961 he was the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Rostock-Stadt . He was then chairman of the Rostock District Council until 1969. From June 1969 he worked as chairman of the District Party Control Commission (BPKK) of the SED Rostock. In 1984 Deuscher retired. He then worked as chairman of the commission for the support of party veterans of the SED district leadership in Rostock.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze, Silver and Gold (1977)
• Banner of Labor (1967)
• Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1985)
• Order of the Star of Friendship of Nations in Silver (1987)

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 66.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who . Volume II. Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1965, p. 48.
• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 50.
• Hella Karden: Deuscher, Karl . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 119.
• Andreas Herbst :  Deuscher, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .