Kurt Rossner

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Kurt Roßner (also: Rossner ; born May 15, 1916 in Chemnitz ; † November 29, 1984 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was Lord Mayor of the city of Halle (Saale) .

Life

Roßner was born into a working-class family. He attended elementary and vocational school and completed an apprenticeship as a painter . He worked in this profession and as an upholsterer and decorator . In 1926 he joined the Jungspartakusbund, in 1930 the Communist Youth Association of Germany . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Roßner took part in the communist resistance against the Nazi regime . In 1938 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war in 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Germany and became an employee of the KPD district leadership in Chemnitz. In 1946 he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In 1945/46 Roßner was initially employed as a detective, then from 1946 to 1948 as a major in the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI). From 1948 to 1949 he was employed by the state authority of the German People's Police in Mecklenburg , most recently as an inspector (colonel) of the criminal police . From 1949 to 1951 he was head of department in the Mecklenburg state government in Schwerin.

From 1951 to 1955 Roßner acted as Lord Mayor of the city of Halle. Between 1955 and 1958 he studied social sciences at the party college of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow and was then deputy chairman of the Halle District Council from 1958 to 1961 . He was also a member of the Halle District Assembly . From 1963 to 1965 Roßner was chairman of the Saalkreis district council .

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