Karl Hossinger

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Karl Hossinger (born October 30, 1904 in Bensen ; † May 6, 1985 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ) was a German lawyer , Thuringian ministerial director and academy director .

Life

Hossinger learned after visiting the elementary and secondary school in the occupation of merchant . Then he studied law . In this subject he received his doctorate in 1928 . From 1929 to 1932 he worked for an insurance company in Prague , then as a businessman for the Berlin company Siemens & Halske . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but was released again in 1942 and made compulsory service for Siemens in Berlin and later in Gera .

After the end of the Nazi regime, he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1945 and worked in the Gera district office. In 1946 the KPD district leadership brought him to Weimar , where he was installed in the office of the presidential chancellery of Prime Minister Paul . In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In June 1947, Hossinger was appointed ministerial director and office manager of the prime minister. From 1952 to 1958 he was deputy chairman of the Erfurt district council and from 1955 to 1961 chairman of the district committee of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF). At the same time he was a member of the central board of DSF. In 1958 he was appointed Deputy Director of the National Research and Memorial Sites of Classical German Literature (NFG) in Weimar, alongside Helmut Holtzhauer . From October 1961 to September 1971 he was then director of the German Academy of the Arts (DAK) in East Berlin . In May 1962 he was awarded the Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver.

After his retirement, Hossinger moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid-1970s .

Publications

literature

  • Federal Ministry for all German issues (ed.): SBZ biography. A biographical reference book on the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Bonn 1964, p. 156.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 339.
  • Steffen Kachel : A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 . Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, Böhlau Verlag, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2011, p. 556.
  • Beatrice Vierneisel:  Hossinger, Karl . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patron of the arts Dr. Hossinger 60 years . In: Neue Zeit , October 30, 1964, p. 4.
  2. ↑ New director of the DAK introduced into his work . In: Neues Deutschland , September 11, 1971, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Johannes R. Becher Medal awarded . In: Neues Deutschland , May 30, 1962, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Hossinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German state politician (KPD / SED)
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensen
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1985
Place of death Willows in the Upper Palatinate