Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack

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Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack (born July 27, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † October 23, 1987 in East Berlin ) was a German politician ( CDU ) and agent of the GDR .

Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack (right) in conversation with Dietrich, FAZ (left), and Gerald Götting , Secretary General of the Eastern CDU (1954)

Life

In 1938 Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 7,014,929). He was in the Air Force from 1939 to 1945 and achieved the rank of first lieutenant . In 1945 and 1946 he did a commercial traineeship , then became managing director and later owner of a coal shop in Hamburg. He was a co-founder and from 1946 to 1948 chairman of the Junge Union Hamburg. 1947 to 1949 he was deputy state chairman of the CDU and district chairman for Hamburg-Nord. Since 1948 he worked for the "party intelligence of the KPD " and from 1952 informant of the Ministry for State Security ,Headquarters Reconnaissance (HVA).

Schmidt-Wittmack was a member of the German Bundestag from October 6, 1953 until he lost his seat . He was elected to the Bundestag via the Hamburg state list of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), where he became a member of the security committee .

Schmidt-Wittmack fled to the GDR with his family on August 21, 1954 and applied for political asylum there . He was then out of the CDU on 22 August excluded , which he initially attached Members was. The determination of the loss of the mandate by the electoral review committee of the German Bundestag on February 24, 1955 was finally confirmed on May 3, 1956 by the Federal Constitutional Court.

From 1955 to 1976 Schmidt-Wittmack was Vice President of the Chamber for Foreign Trade of the GDR . He had been a member of the GDR CDU since 1962 and was a member of the main board from 1964. In 1977 he retired. From 1979 he was deputy chairman of the GDR - Austria friendship committee .

He received several GDR awards, including a. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1984.

literature

  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , pp. 282-325.

Web links

Commons : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Wolf : Chief of espionage in the secret war: memories. List Verlag GmbH, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-471-79158-2 .
  2. ^ A b Schmidt-Wittmack, Karlfranz . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1107 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ BVerfGE May 3, 1956 Accessed October 17, 2017
  4. ↑ New Germany . May 2, 1984, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Karlfranz Schmidt-Wittmack. The tactically recalled perspective spy in heroic “Chekists”? "Scouts of Peace"? Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War  : Accompanying volume to the exhibition Hamburg Politicians as GDR Spies in the Cold War in the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86818-077-0 , p. 284
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Wittmack, Karlfranz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, GDR agent
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1987
Place of death East Berlin