Magnus Dedek

Magnus Dedek (born June 28, 1917 in Dresden , † July 9, 1955 in East Berlin ) was a German politician and functionary of the GDR bloc party CDU . He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and president of the GDR's Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

Life

After attending elementary school and high school, the son of a master chef studied pharmacy at the Technical University of Dresden from 1937 and worked as a pharmacist until 1939. Drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service at the beginning of the Second World War , he was taken prisoner by the British in 1944. In 1945 he became a member of the Free Germany Movement in Great Britain and its Committee of Ten in South Wales.

In the spring of 1946 Magnus Dedek returned to Germany and joined the CDU. In May 1947, he was elected Mayor of Schwarzenberg and on 19 January 1950 against the votes of the CDU by the SED to Vice District Administrator of the district Aue selected. On February 3, 1950 he became a member of the National Council of the National Front . From February 15, 1950, he was a member of the State Executive Committee of Saxony, and in September 1950 he was appointed as the successor to Josef Rambo, who had fled to West Berlin, as the Executive State Chairman of the CDU Saxony, which was aligned with the block party , and President of the State Administrative Court of Saxony . On February 22, 1950 he was introduced as a successor member of the People's Chamber and in March 1950 also as a successor in the Saxon state parliament . In March 1950 he was elected second mayor of Chemnitz . In the elections in October 1950 he was re-elected to the People's Chamber and the Saxon state parliament and in November 1950 he was vice-president of the state parliament and chairman of the electoral review committee.

Magnus Dedek was elected third chairman at the state party conference of the Saxon CDU in June 1950. The first chairman was Josef Rambo and the second Otto Freitag as well as the fourth chairman of the pastor Helmut Mehnert from Löbau .

With the dissolution of the federal states in the GDR, he became deputy chairman of the Dresden District Council in August 1952 . In the same year he became a member of the main CDU board. On May 23, 1955, the GDR Chamber of Commerce and Industry commissioned him to manage the President's business. He was only able to administer this office for a short time because he suddenly and unexpectedly died in July 1955 at the age of 38 as a result of a stroke in Berlin. The burial took place on July 15, 1955 in Dresden in the New Catholic Cemetery . A requiem for Dedek was performed on July 16, 1955 in Dresden-Klotzsche in the parish church of the Holy Cross. He left behind his wife Lotte, née Weigelt, and the children Christel (Christine), Peter and Hubertus and his parents Maximilian and Gertrud Dedek.

Awards

• 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (for his work in the flood disaster)

literature

• Michael Richter : The East CDU 1948-1952 between resistance and conformity. 2nd edition 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0916-9 , pages 408-409
• Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber : SBZ-Handbuch , 1993, ISBN 3486552627 , page 344
• Bernd-Rainer Barth , Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Magnus Dedek . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 61.

Web links

• Dedek family estate in the main state archive in Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Times from February 25, 1950
2. ^ New Times from September 17, 1950
3. ^ New Times of February 24, 1950
4. ^ New Times of March 7, 1950
5. ^ New Times of November 4, 1950
6. ^ Neue Zeit , June 27, 1950, p. 2
7. ↑ New Times from July 12, 1955
8. ^ Neues Deutschland , July 14, 1955, p. 7