Lothar Witt

Lothar Witt (born August 26, 1935 in Berlin-Rummelsburg ) is a former functionary of the GDR youth organization Free German Youth (FDJ) and the SED and was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

Witt was born in 1935 to a working class family in the Berlin district of Rummelsburg. He attended elementary and high school and in 1950 became a member of the GDR youth organization FDJ. After finishing school, Witt first studied to become a lower school teacher at the Institute for Teacher Training in Berlin from 1951 to 1954 , where he was employed as a full-time FDJ secretary until 1958. This function in an important Berlin training institution meant that from 1957 Witt was already a member of the FDJ district leadership in Berlin, which was headed by Hans Modrow at the time . During his studies, Witt joined the SED in 1955 at the age of 20. In 1958 he was elected 2nd secretary of the FDJ district leadership Berlin-Köpenick and was thus still employed full-time in the youth organization. In 1960/61, Witt completed a one-year course at the Komsomol University in Moscow in order to then take on the role of 1st Secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Berlin-Köpenick. With this assumption of function, Witt also became a candidate for the SED district leadership in Berlin. He remained in the position of Köpenick FDJ chairman until 1963 and then moved to the FDJ district management in Berlin, where he was responsible for the schools as a qualified lower-level teacher. In May 1965 Witt replaced the then 1st Secretary of the FDJ District Management Siegfried Lorenz in his function. As chairman of an FDJ district leadership, Witt was co-opted as a member of the office of the FDJ central council in 1966. At the 8th parliament of the FDJ in May 1967 Witt was formally elected as a member of the office of the central council of the FDJ and at the same time a member of the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Berlin. Due to his function, the youth organization also sent him to the Volkskammer, the parliament of the GDR, in the 5th electoral period from 1967 to 1971 as a member of the FDJ parliamentary group.

Witt held all these functions until 1971. The SED then delegated the now 35-year-old to a four-year course at the CPSU party college in Moscow, from which he graduated as a social scientist. Returning in 1975, Witt was entrusted with the post of 1st Secretary of the SED district leadership in Berlin-Mitte , the most politically important district of East Berlin at the time. Due to the many sights, GDR ministries and other well-known public institutions such as the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB), which were located in Berlin-Mitte, Witt was one of the few chairmen of a Berlin SED district leadership who directly belonged to the secretariat of the SED district leadership in Berlin. In mid-January 1981, Witt was replaced by Günter Kaiser as SED chairman in Berlin-Mitte. On January 24, 1981, Witt was elected the new 1st secretary of the SED district leadership at the district delegates' conference of the Berlin-Köpenick district, replacing the former 1st secretary Otto Seidel. Witt returned to his old workplaces, having become first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Köpenick 20 years earlier. Witt took on a position in one of the most traditional working-class districts of Berlin with important large companies such as Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO) or Funkwerk Köpenick , but also well-known sights such as the newly opened Pioneer Palace in Berlin's Wuhlheide , the Müggelsee and the 1. FC football club Union Berlin . From a party-political point of view, Witt's function was of enormous importance, which was also reflected in the fact that Witt was elected as a candidate for the SED Central Committee at the Xth Party Congress of the SED in April 1981. This function was made on the XI. Party conference in April 1986 confirmed. Witt belonged to a very small group of chairmen of an SED district leadership who were elected to the Central Committee.

On November 27, 1989, Witt was recalled as secretary of the SED district leadership in Köpenick as part of the political change in the GDR . Nothing is known about his further life.

Awards

• 1979 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1985 Labor Stage II banner

literature

• Andreas Herbst , Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler: The SED. History - organization - politics. A manual. 1st edition, Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1117.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 19, 1981, p. 3
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 26, 1981, p. 3
3. ↑ ND of November 28, 1989, p. 8
4. ^ BZ of September 26, 1979, p. 6
5. ^ BZ of April 25, 1985, p. 7