Kurt Tiedke

Kurt Tiedke, 1982

A SED delegation headed by Kurt Tiedke visits the Karl Marx House in Trier

Kurt Tiedke (born May 30, 1924 in Krebsfelde , Free City of Danzig ; † April 15, 2015 ) was a German politician of the GDR (SED).

Life

Kurt Tiedke was born the son of a carpenter and, like most of the boys, belonged to the Hitler Youth in his youth . At the age of 18 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later into the Wehrmacht .

In the Soviet captivity, he graduated from an anti-fascist school and joined the SED after his return to Germany in 1948 . He began a party career in the state of Brandenburg . From 1950 he was a student, then until 1960 with interruption through studies at the party college of the CPSU in Moscow, teacher of the party college "Karl Marx" of the SED (chair: history of the CPSU). Afterwards he exercised various high functions in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the SED . From 1963 he was a candidate and from 1967 to 1989 a member of the Central Committee of the SED.

In 1979 he replaced Alois Pisnik , the long-time first secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg, who had fallen out of favor with Honecker . From 1979 to 1983 he was a member of the National Defense Council of the GDR and from 1981 to March 1990 a member of the People's Chamber. 1983 to 1989 he followed the hardliner Hanna Wolf as rector of the party college "Karl Marx" . He was followed by Götz Dieckmann . After his exclusion from the SED- PDS in 1990 , the former party professor acted in the environment of the DKP and its press . His two sons held positions in GDR and post-reunification journalism.

Awards

• 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1974 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1984 Karl Marx Order

literature

• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Tiedke, Kurt . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader. The middle level. Biographical lexicon of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 .