Martin Bleck
Martin Bleck (born June 12, 1919 in Altdamm ; † April 15, 1996 in Berlin ) was a lieutenant general of the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR and from 1964 to 1980 head of the administration inspection of the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR .
Life
Bleck, son of a railroad worker and a seamstress, worked as an employee in Stettin until 1939 after primary school and training as a businessman . At the beginning of the Second World War he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then in 1939 into the German Wehrmacht , where he served as a sergeant major until the end of the war in 1945 .
After temporary work as a farm worker in the Aschersleben district , Bleck was still chief of the People's Police (VP) in Wismar in 1945 . In the same year Bleck joined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the SED . In 1948 he completed a course at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Police School and became commander of the VP readiness in Schwerin . In 1948 he became chief of staff of the VP readiness in Schwerin / Rostock and in 1949 the chief of operations at the police school in Primerwald .
In 1949/50 Bleck took part in a special course of the German Administration of the Interior (DVdI) in the USSR and in 1950 became the commander of the state police in Torgau , in 1952 chief of the technical administration of the VP Dessau and in 1953 the commander of the military police in Schwerin.
From 1955 to 1957 Bleck was a listener at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and obtained a diploma in military science in 1957 . From 1958 to 1964 he was Hermann Rentzsch's successor as head of the NVA's military district V. In 1959 he was appointed major general and in August 1964 he was head of the inspection administration in the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR (MfNV). From 1969 he was a member of the National Council of the National Front . In 1971 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In 1980 Bleck retired.
Honors
- 1964 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1976 Fights for services to the people and the fatherland
- 1979 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1980 Honored member of the NVA
- 1986 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
literature
- Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. 4th edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 .
- Short biography for: Martin Bleck . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bleck, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Old dam |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1996 |
| Place of death | Berlin |