Lothar Penndorf
Lothar Penndorf (born December 8, 1928 in Cretzschwitz ; † September 2, 2017 ) was a German military lawyer . He was major general, vice president and chairman of the military college of the GDR Supreme Court .
Life
The son of a worker visited the NAPOLA Naumburg (Saale) from 1942 to April 1945 and was used as a soldier in the Wehrmacht in the last days of the war . He became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released in autumn 1945.
In 1947 he became a member of the SED and studied law at the universities of Jena and Leipzig from 1947 to 1951. After working as a court trainee in Leipzig and Halle, he was the main consultant in the Ministry of Justice of the GDR from 1953 to 1954 . On July 1, 1954, he became a member of the German People's Police and in the same year a public prosecutor with the Public Prosecutor General of East Berlin. In 1957 he switched to the NVA and worked as a senior assistant, military prosecutor and department head at the senior military prosecutor. On November 29, 1971 he was appointed military judge of the GDR's Supreme Court by the People's Chamber . From December 1977 to 1990 he was Vice President of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Military College.
He was appointed major general on October 7, 1982 and discharged from military service on March 31, 1990.
Awards
- Battle medals "For services to the people and fatherland" in bronze
- 1981 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1984 in silver
literature
- Klaus Froh & Rüdiger Wenzke , (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual. 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9 , pp. 157, 306 and 334.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Penndorf, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German major general (NVA) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cretzschwitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 2017 |