Kurt Schneidewind
Kurt Schneidewind (actually Hans Kochlmüller ; born March 6, 1912 in Erfurt , † June 29, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and diplomat . He was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl , department head in the SED central committee and ambassador of the GDR in the Korean People's Democratic Republic .
Life
Schneidewind, the son of a metal worker and a cigar worker, attended elementary school from 1918 to 1926 and was an apprentice in a shoe factory in Erfurt from 1926 to 1929. Between 1929 and 1932, Schneidewind was unemployed and went hiking. He did odd jobs in Kassel , Cuxhaven and Berlin .
In 1925 he joined the Workers' Gymnastics Club, in 1927 the KJVD and the Red Aid . In 1932 he became the organizational manager of the KJVD district management in Thuringia . In December 1932 the KJVD delegated him to the International Lenin School in Moscow . In 1933/34 he worked in the Central European Office of the Communist Youth International . In 1934 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow. In 1935 he became a member of the KPD. From 1935 he worked as a locksmith and lathe operator in Sverdlovsk , where he led the KPD group together with Heinz Hoffmann . Between 1938 and 1941, Schneidewind worked in a Moscow ball bearing factory.
In 1943 the NKVD mobilized him to work on the Leningrad Front . In the spring of 1944 he parachuted behind the German front line in Latvia and then fought in a partisan unit in the area of Lake Lubāns , later also in Estonia and Finland . After he was wounded, he returned to Moscow. In 1945/46 he worked as a teacher at Object 12, a special school near Moscow.
In March 1946, Schneidewind returned to Germany and became a member of the SED. From 1946 to 1950 he was a member of the SED party executive. In 1946 he worked briefly as a teacher at the district party school in Liebenwalde , before becoming a consultant in the training and advertising department in June 1946 and main consultant for administrative schools and schools of mass organizations in the party training department of the SED party executive in May 1949. From 1950 he was deputy head and from 1952 to 1954 head of the propaganda department of the SED Central Committee. From 1954 to 1956, Schneidewind acted as first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl and was a member of the local district assembly . In 1957/58 he headed the organizational policy department in the Central Committee of the SED. From 1958 to 1963 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED.
From March to November 1959, Schneidewind worked as Consul General in Bratislava , from 1960 to 1962 as the GDR's ambassador in Pyongyang . Between 1963 and 1973 he headed the First Non-European Department ( Far East ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR .
Under the code name Hans Kahlmüller , he attended the Lenin School in Moscow in 1932/33. Under this pseudonym, letters to the editor appeared in Neues Deutschland after the war and an article on the current situation in the People's Republic of China in 1964.
Awards
- Medal for the Defense of Leningrad (1944)
- Patriotic Order of Merit in silver (May 6, 1955 and 1962) and in gold (1977) as well as a bar of honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold (1982)
- Order of the Great Patriotic War (1970)
- Order Banner of Labor (1972)
- Karl Marx Order (1977)
literature
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 280.
- Stefan Doernberg, Heinz Kühnrich (ed.): In league with the enemy. Germans on the Allied side . Dietz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01875-2 , pp. 243 and 259.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla . KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 800.
- Gottfried Hamacher et al. (Ed.): Against Hitler. Germans in the Resistance, in the armed forces of the anti-Hitler coalition and the "Free Germany" movement. Short biographies (series: Manuscripts / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , Volume 53) (PDF; 894 kB). 2., corr. Edition. Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-320-02941-X , p. 184.
- Bernd-Rainer Barth , Andreas Herbst : Schneidewind, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Siegfried Bock, Ingrid Muth, Hermann Schwiesau: The GDR foreign policy, an overview. Data, facts, people (III) . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2 , p. 349.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland from August 12 and September 10, 1949
- ^ New Germany of June 10, 1964
- ^ New Germany of October 7, 1955
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schneidewind, Kurt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kochlmüller, Hans (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (KPD / SED) and diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1983 |
Place of death | Berlin |