Kurt Koblitz

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Kurt Koblitz (born September 27, 1916 in Waldenburg , † October 13, 1979 in Alsdorf ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Life

After completing elementary school , an apprenticeship in food retail and wholesale took place from 1930 to 1933. From 1934 to 1938 he was an administrative employee. From 1938 to 1945 he did his military service and took part in World War II as a soldier .

Koblitz lived in Brandenburg after the end of the war and worked from 1945 to 1950 in the state administration there, among other things as head of the state sports committee. He was in 1945 a member of the SPD, which is 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone with the KPD to SED merged . From November 1946 to January 1950 he was a member of the state parliament of Brandenburg .

He soon found that the regime's views did not match his basic political convictions. In January 1950 he fled to West Berlin for political reasons . The Ministry of State Security then suspected Koblitz of having started in West Berlin in February 1950 to set up a network of agents in the GDR on behalf of a US secret service and thus to engage in espionage . It therefore put several unofficial employees on him. He was kidnapped from West Berlin a few months later on November 16, 1950 and probably sentenced to 25 years of forced labor. According to his statements, he spent five years in the Vorkuta penal camp on the Arctic Circle in the USSR before he was released to the Federal Republic. These hard times shaped him and cemented his political views.

In his new home in Alsdorf, Aachen district, he worked again for the SPD and was active as a city councilor since 1957. From 1958 he was a member of the district executive of the SPD Mittelrhein and from 1961 chairman of the SPD sub-district Aachen. In 1956 he became a miner with the Eschweiler Mining Association , and from 1966 he worked as the manager of a miner's home. He was a member of IG Bergbau und Energie and a member of the works council from 1959 to 1966.

For the first time, the Social Democrat was elected directly to the German Bundestag for the Aachen district on November 19, 1972 (7th electoral term). On October 3, 1976, he was re-elected for a further legislative term, which he did not see to end due to his sudden death.

The focus of his work was labor and social policy and the area of ​​“all-German issues”. He also supports the Association of Victims of Stalinism (VOS) and is also interested in material about kidnapping cases from the Federal Republic, including West Berlin, to the GDR. Kurt Koblitz was one of the first politicians who made intensive efforts to establish new industries in the Aachen district in order to counterbalance the prevailing mining industry. He was also one of the first to try to establish a better connection with the Belgian authorities in the Liège area and the Dutch authorities in the province of Limburg . For the Aachen border area, he endeavored to obtain funding similar to that of the border areas . Youth work was also part of his field of activity. In addition to organizing trips, he actively promoted numerous language courses in France and Germany. From 1964 to 1969 alone, well over 500 schoolchildren and young people took part.

The Kurt-Koblitz-Ring , a section of the federal highway 57, is named after him in his hometown .

Kurt Koblitz was married and had a daughter.

Kurt Koblitz Medal

In his memory, the SPD in the Aachen district annually awards the Kurt Koblitz Medal to people who are above average in the social field in the Aachen district.

Were awarded the Kurt Koblitz Medal a. a .:

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 433-434.
  • The Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic - Department of Education and Research (Ed.): The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR - Expert opinion for the German Bundestag pursuant to Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942130-94-3 , PDF file online, 13 MB .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German Bundestag 1949 to 1989 in the files of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR Expert opinion for the German Bundestag in accordance with Section 37 (3) of the Stasi Records Act, p. 312 f.
personal data
SURNAME Koblitz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED, SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1979
Place of death Alsdorf