Kurt Vogel (General of the People's Police)

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Kurt Vogel (* 3. February 1910 in Potsdam ; † 20th April 1995 ) was a German Communist , Interbrigadist and officers of the People's Police of East Germany . He was major general of the Barracked People's Police (KVP) and commander of the KVP Territorial Administration South.

Life

As the son of a working-class family, Vogel completed an apprenticeship as a pipe fitter from 1924 after attending school for eight years and worked in this profession until 1932, with temporary interruptions due to unemployment. In 1925 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany , in 1926 the Red Front Fighters Association (RFB) and in 1928 the KPD . In 1932 he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for violating the War Equipment and Firearms Act. After serving this sentence, he was transferred to the Lichtenburg concentration camp and released in September 1935. Immediately after his release he became a member of the illegal KPD leadership in Potsdam. In 1936 he emigrated to Prague by decision of the KPD, from where he went to Spain after a short stay in November 1936 and in the Spanish Civil War as a captain (captain) in the XI. International Brigade fought. During this time he was a member of the Spanish Communist Party. After the defeat of the Republican forces , Vogel was interned in France from 1939 to 1941. In March 1941 he was extradited to the Gestapo in Germany . Due to the illegal activity in Germany in 1936, Vogel was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for preparation for high treason. He served this sentence in the Brandenburg penitentiary and was then transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was until liberation on April 11, 1945.

Just a few days after the end of the war, Vogel was appointed head of the protective police in Weimar by the Americans on May 15, 1945 . After the Americans had withdrawn from Thuringia in the summer of 1945, he reported to the Soviet headquarters, immediately became an active member of the KPD again and received permission to return to his home town of Potsdam at the end of August 1945. There he was first appointed commander of the security police, then in September 1945 as chief of police . From 1946 to 1949 he was head of the main police department at the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI). From 1949 to 1950 Vogel completed a special course in the Soviet Union . After his return, Vogel was head of the KVP readiness (cover name for regiment ) Gotha from 1950 to 1952 , from June 1952 as chief inspector of the German People's Police and from October 1, 1952 as major general of the KVP. In 1952/53 he was commander of the KVP territorial administration (TV 3000) Dresden and from September 15, 1953 to August 25, 1954, commander of the KVP territorial administration ( military district ) south based in Leipzig . On November 1, 1954, he was released from service and replaced by Major General Fritz Johne .

In September 1957 he was hired again by the German People's Police (DVP), joined the riot police and was deployed with the rank of lieutenant colonel as commander of the Potsdam teaching staff.

Vogel last lived as a party veteran in Bergholz-Rehbrücke near Potsdam.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal "Sport und Technik" No. 9/1984
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae in Minutes No. 39/58 of the meeting of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee on September 18, 1958.
  3. ↑ Journal "Sport und Technik" No. 9/1984
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently major general
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1995