Konrad Naumann

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Konrad Naumann (with flowers) 1973 on LPG visit.

Konrad Naumann (born November 25, 1928 in Leipzig ; † July 25, 1992 in Guayaquil , Ecuador ) was temporarily 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR . He was one of the few Politburo members who were removed from office before 1989.

Life

Naumann, son of an employee, attended elementary school in Holzhausen until 1939 , middle school in Engelsdorf until 1941 and advanced school in Leipzig until 1945. In 1939 he became a member and youth leader of the young people . In 1944 he was drafted with his school class as an anti-aircraft helper and deployed to Bad Lausick in early 1945 . Shortly before the American troops marched in, he deserted.

Naumann became a member of the KPD in November 1945 and attended the KPD state party school from January to March 1946. He then worked full-time with the FDJ district committee in Leipzig and the state committee for Saxony in Dresden . After the forced unification of the SPD and KPD to form the SED , he became a member of the SED. Because of "political mistakes" he was relieved of his position and worked as an auxiliary fitter in the Hirschfelde brown coal works . From August 1948 to April 1949 he was an instructor of the Central Council of the FDJ and from April 1949 to October 1951 Secretary for Labor and Social Affairs in the Mecklenburg State Board of the FDJ. In November 1950 he was elected to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the mandate of the FDJ . From October 1951 to September 1952 Naumann studied at the Komsomol University in Moscow and therefore gave up the state parliament mandate. On March 18, 1952, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED approved the change in mandate. His successor in office was Horst Klemm .

After the dissolution of the states and the formation of the districts in the GDR, he was first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Frankfurt (Oder) from September 1952 to 1957 , a candidate for the office of the SED district leadership and a member of the district parliament . He was also a member and temporarily secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ from 1952 to 1967. In 1959 he took part in the VII World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna as head of the GDR delegation .

He was a candidate from 1963 to 1966 and a member of the Central Committee of the SED from 1966 to 1986, second secretary from 1964 to 1971 and first secretary of the SED district leadership from 1971 to 1985 as successor to Paul Verner, and from 1967 to 1986 city ​​councilor of Berlin and member of the People's Chamber .

Naumann became a candidate in 1973 and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in 1976 . From 1984 to 1985 he was Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED and a member of the State Council and, like most of the Politburo members, lived in the Waldsiedlung near Wandlitz . At the 11th meeting of the Central Committee of the SED on November 22, 1985, he was allegedly removed from office because of a speech he had given on October 17 at the Academy for Social Sciences . Presumably his alcohol addiction also played a role. According to the official announcement in Neues Deutschland , he himself asked to be released from his functions “for health reasons”. 1986–1989 he was a research assistant in the state archive administration in Potsdam . In 1991 he moved to Guayaquil, where his wife took up a position as a teacher at the German School.

Naumann was married to actress Vera Oelschlegel from 1977 to 1987 , and later to Carmen Naumann.

Honors

Naumann received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1964 and in gold in 1974 and the Karl Marx Order in 1978 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Konrad Naumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minutes No. 102 of the meeting of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee on March 18, 1952 - Federal Archives DY 30 / IV 2/2/202.
  2. ^ Communiqué of the 11th session of the Central Committee of the SED . In: Neues Deutschland , November 23, 1985, p. 1
  3. ^ A b Carlos Torres Chang: Carmen Naumann busca excelencia educativa en Copol. In: El Universo, May 28, 2015 (accessed June 4, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED), MdV, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1992
Place of death Guayaquil , Ecuador