Leonhard Moog

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Leonhard Moog (born October 11, 1882 in Ansbach ; † January 6, 1962 in Munich ) was a German politician ( DDP , LDPD ) and Thuringian Minister of Finance. He was sentenced in absentia to a long prison term in a show trial in the GDR in 1950 .

Life

Leonhard Moog attended elementary school and business school and then did a commercial apprenticeship. He then worked as a businessman and sales representative.

In 1899 he joined the German Salaried Employees Union and was chairman in Thuringia from 1920 to 1933.

politics

Due to his liberal convictions, Leonhard Moog was a member of the German Democratic Party since 1919 and a city councilor in Weimar for his party from 1919 to 1933 . From 1925 to 1930 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament . Because of the self-dissolution of the German State Party (this was in 1930 the name of the DDP) after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he could not continue his political work more.

After the Second World War , Moog co-founded the Democratic Party of Thuringia, which was later renamed the LDPD. On July 29, 1945, he was elected regional chairman of his party at the first state committee meeting. In the semi-free state elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946 , Leonhard Moog was elected to the Thuringian state parliament.

In June 1945 he was appointed director of the State Office for Finance of the Provincial Administration of Thuringia (Minister of Finance) in the Brill cabinet by the American occupation forces . In July 1945 he was confirmed in this post by the Soviet occupying power ( Paul I cabinet ). From December 1946 to January 1950 he also officially carried the title of Thuringian Finance Minister ( Cabinet Paul II and Cabinet Eggerath I ).

From 1945 to 1950 Leonhard Moog was a member of the central executive committee of the LDPD. He was deputy chairman there until 1948 and (co-) chairman from 1948 to February 1949.

In 1948 Leonhard Moog was sent to the 1st German People's Council and later to the provisional People's Chamber . In the state parliament elections in the GDR in 1950 , which were carried out as sham elections according to the unit lists , he was confirmed as a member of the state parliament.

Escape and show trial in the GDR

At the beginning of 1950 the attacks of the SED against Leonhard Moog escalated . In the SED press, Moog was attacked for “espionage services for the West” and later accused of malicious activity against the “tax and financial apparatus”. To avoid arrest, Moog had to flee to West Berlin in January 1950 , where he resigned as Minister on January 18, 1950.

As a result, there was a show trial against Moog in his absence . On December 8, 1950, Moog was sentenced to a long prison sentence by the Supreme Court of the GDR , after a personal assessment and approval of the indictment by Walter Ulbricht , for "financial damage to the state of Thuringia".

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , page 981 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Show trial . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1950 ( online ).
  • Short biography for:  Moog, Leonhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Petra Weber : "The criminalization of the" bourgeois opposition in politics and administration: The trials against Leonhard Moog, Heinrich Gillessen and others "in" Justice and dictatorship: justice administration and political criminal justice in Thuringia 1945-1961 ", pp. 209ff; ISBN 3486596071

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig : Biographical Handbook of the SBZ / GDR. Volume 1 + 2 . Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 1996, ISBN 978-3-11-169913-4 , pp. 556–.
  2. a b Roger Engelmann, Clemens Vollnhals: Justice in the service of party rule: legal practice and state security in the GDR . Chr. Links, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86284-030-4 , p. 125-126 ( google.com ).
  3. http://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000001881
  4. ^ Dierk Hoffmann, Hermann Wentker: The last year of the Soviet occupation zone: political course setting and continuities in the process of founding the GDR. 2000, ISBN 3486645064 , page 182 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. Volker Gerhardt, Hans-Christoph Rauh: Beginnings of the GDR philosophy: claims, powerlessness, failure . Ch. Links Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-86153-225-5 , p. 342–.