Kurt Stoph

Kurt Werner Stoph (born September 10, 1912 in Schöneberg ; † April 30, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( SED ), State Secretary and President of the German Football Association of the GDR (DFV).

Life

The President of the DFV Kurt Stoph congratulates Werner Unger ( ASK Vorwärts Berlin ) on the GDR championship , 23 November 1958

Stoph was born into a working class family. He was the older brother of Willi Stoph , who later became chairman of the GDR State Council . Kurt Stoph attended elementary school from 1918 to 1926 . He then took distance learning as a technical businessman (1926–1929) and learned the profession of printer from 1927 to 1931 . In 1927 he joined the printing association , the Red Aid and the Red Young Front . Later he was a group and platoon leader in the Red Young Front.

In February 1933 Stoph was arrested for his political activities and taken to the Oranienburg concentration camp . From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a radio fitter, from 1939 to 1942 as a commercial clerk in Berlin . Between 1940 and 1945 he did military service in the Wehrmacht .

In 1945 Stoph joined the KPD, in 1946 the SED. From 1946 to 1949 he was managing director at the Berlin building materials office, then in 1950/1951 acting director of the German trading center building materials. He graduated from the German Administrative Academy in Forst Zinna in 1952 and was head of the coordination and control department for industry and transport at the Council of Ministers in 1952/53 . From 1953 to 1979 Stoph was State Secretary in charge of the State Administration of the State Reserve. In 1956/57 he attended the party college of the CPSU in Moscow .

Stoph was a member of the DTSB federal board from 1957 to 1979 . On May 18, 1958, he signed the charter of the German Football Association and was its first president from 1958 to 1961.

Awards

• Medal for fighters against fascism 1933 to 1945 (1958)
• Labor Banner (1961 and 1964)
• Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1969) and Gold (1972) as well as a bar of honor for the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1977)
• Honorary grave in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde (1980)

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. 312.
• 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. 904.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 7. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 317f.
• Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Stoph, Kurt Werner . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Joel, Ernst Christian Schütt: The Chronicle of German Football. The national team games from 1908 to the present day . 4th edition. Chronik Verlag im Wissen Media Verlag, Munich / Gütersloh 2008, p. 100.