Kurt Lohberger

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Kurt Lohberger (born June 2, 1914 in Lugau ; † May 29, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German communist, military and chairman of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST).

Life

As the son of a miner, Lohberger completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1928 to 1930. In 1930 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Briefly imprisoned in 1933, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and Austria , where he organized illegal border crossings for refugees and made several trips to the German Reich as a KPD courier with a false identity . From 1937 to 1939 Lohberger fought in the Spanish Civil War . After training as a non-commissioned officer in Albacete , he served in the Edgar André battalion and the Thälmann battalion in Aragon and on the Ebro, among others . In February 1939 he went to France , where he was interned in St. Cyprien , Gurs and Le Vernet . In 1941 the Vichy government handed him over to Germany. Lohberger was imprisoned in Waldheim until 1943 . Then he was recruited into Penal Division 999 on probation . In September 1944 he succeeded in defection to the ELAS partisan movement in Greece . In the following years he took part as a partisan in the fighting in Greece and Albania and took part in the establishment of the Anti-Fascist Committee Free Germany (AKFD) in Greece. He later emigrated to the Soviet Union .

In October 1945 Lohberger returned to the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) in Germany and became a people's police officer on behalf of the KPD . As a senior government councilor, he was initially deputy to the state police chief of Brandenburg. From 1946 to July 1948 he was district secretary of the KPD and the SED in Stollberg, then until 1949 political officer of the border police in Saxony. From 1949 to 1950 he completed a military course in Privolsk and then worked in the political administration of the Barracked People's Police . Promoted to colonel in 1952, he was appointed head of the political department of the Territorial Administration South of the Barracked People's Police (KVP) in 1953. From 1955 to 1956 Lohberger headed the political department of the Territorial Administration North of the KVP. From 1956 to 1959 he was the first representative of the National People's Army (NVA) in the High Command of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty. From 1959 to 1960 he obtained the title of Dipl. Rer at the Soviet Military Academy. mil. From 1961 to 1963 he was commander of the Political Officer School in Berlin-Treptow . From 1963 to 1968 he was chairman of the central board of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) and then worked in the Ministry of National Defense . On March 1, 1966, Lohberger was appointed major general of the reserve. In 1973 he was significantly involved in the organization of the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students .

Lohberger received numerous state awards, including the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1973), the Order of Labor Banner (1964) and the Karl Marx Order (1984). In autumn 2006 he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the International Brigades. His urn was on the Central Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in the graves plant for the victims and persecuted by the Nazi regime buried.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ " People's Army " No. 20 / May 1985
  2. ^ New Germany of March 2, 1966
personal data
SURNAME Lohberger, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military and chairman of the GST
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugau
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2008
Place of death Berlin