Max Hummeltenberg
Max Hummeltenberg (born October 8, 1913 in Remscheid ; † March 25, 2004 ) was a German party functionary of the GDR block party NDPD and a translator of Russian literature . He was chairman of the Potsdam district board and a member of the main committee of the NDPD.
Life
The son of a civil servant completed a degree in art history and psychology at the University of Marburg after attending elementary school and high school and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He joined the NSDAP in 1937 . During the Second World War he did military service as an army psychologist in the Wehrmacht . As a first lieutenant in the 212 Infantry Regiment, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Stalingrad . He attended an anti-fascist school and was a founding member of the BDO and a member of the NKFD . He was a co-signer of the “Appeal to the German Generals and Officers! To the people and the Wehrmacht! ”From September 12, 1943.
Hummeltenberg returned to Germany in 1950 and went into the Soviet occupation zone . He joined the NDPD in 1950 and became an NDPD functionary. He was initially director of the state party school of the NDPD Saxony-Anhalt and from April 1951 head of the teacher training department in the main department for political studies and culture in the NDPD party executive. At the end of July 1951 he became personal assistant to the political director of the NDPD, Heinrich Homann . In 1952/53 he acted as deputy chairman of the Leipzig district council and from May 1953 to 1955 as chairman of the NDPD district committee in Potsdam (successor to Hans Lohrisch ). At times he was a member of the Potsdam District Assembly .
In August 1955 he became deputy chief and 1956 chief of the protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (successor to Ferdinand Thun ). At the end of July 1958, the Politburo of the SED Central Committee confirmed him as head of the Diplomatic Protocol and instructed the SED comrades in the MfAA to propose a SED comrade as head of the Diplomatic Protocol within two months and to assign Hummeltenberg to another position. Hummeltenberg held the office until autumn 1958 and was replaced by SED comrade Klaus Willerding .
From January 1958 he was a board member of the Working Group of Former Officers (AeO) and from 1958 to 1971 editor-in-chief of the AeO's newsletter. From 1958 to 1978 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Military History in Potsdam. He also worked as a translator of Russian literature, mainly translating the books of the Soviet children's author Arkadi Gaidar into German.
Hummeltenberg last lived in Berlin and died at the age of 90.
Awards
- 1965 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1978 in silver
- 1981 Translation Prize from the GDR children's book publisher
- 1988 Order of the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 158.
- Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-8012-0121-X , p. 136.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 344 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Andreas Herbst : Hummeltenberg, Max . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Hummeltenberg in the DRAFD Wiki.
- ↑ Minutes No. 31/58 of the meeting of the Politburo on July 29, 1958 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/2/603.
- ↑ New Year's reception at the President . In: Neues Deutschland , January 2, 1959, p. 1.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hummeltenberg, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German NDPD functionary and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 2004 |