Norbert Podewin

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Norbert Podewin (born January 18, 1935 in Berlin ; † July 10, 2014 there ) was a German SED functionary and non-fiction author.

Life and career

The son of a worker, Podewin graduated from secondary school in the GDR and then started an apprenticeship as a mechanic. In the VEB Narva plant , he also worked as an editor for the company newspaper. He continued this activity in the VEB Elektroprojekt Berlin. He went to the People's Police and was a commander at the Berlin sector border.

He completed his distance learning from 1961 to 1965 at the Humboldt University in Berlin as a historian. From 1962 he worked for the National Council of the National Front of the GDR and worked under Albert Norden on the Braunbuch war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic , most recently with the rank of department head. In 1974 Podewin was awarded a thesis on German-German relations with Dr. phil. PhD .

Podewin was active in the FDJ and in the SED , where he temporarily held the position of sector leader in the central committee . From 1971 to January 1975 he worked as a personal advisor for the deputy chairman of the State Council, Friedrich Ebert . Ebert dismissed him "because of his personal non-partisan behavior," as Heinz Mohnhaupt quotes from the corresponding letter. Subsequently, Podewin was again employed by the National Council of the National Front, initially as Secretary for International Relations. From 1980 to 1989 he was a member of the Presidium of the National Council.

From 1990 Podewin worked as a freelance writer on topics of recent history. In retirement he wrote local history articles in the magazine "Lebensringe" for residents of a denominational Friedrichshain retirement home.

Awards

Fonts

  • Revanchism over Aether Waves: A documentary on the role of West German broadcasters in propagating revanchist and chauvinist goals . Association of German Journalists, Berlin 1963 (= publication series of the Association of German Journalists , issue 23), DNB 454406681 .
  • Democracy in action. Worth knowing about the GDR . In: Zeit im Bild , Dresden 1966, DNB 575660392 (English).
  • Springer's reaching for the television . In: Neues Deutschland , August 13, 1967.
  • Boilers against television round . In: Neue Deutsche Presse , 22nd year, 1968, No. 5, p. 31.
  • Association or appropriation? Investigations into the merger of KPD and SPD in Friedrichshain . Berlin 1993.
  • with Bernhard Meyer: The SPD in Friedrichshain: From the October elections in 1946 to the split in November 1948 . Berlin 1993.
  • with Lutz Heuer : The unification process in Lichtenberg : KPD and SPD on the way to the socialist unity party of Germany . Berlin 1993.
  • Between action unit and observation: East Berlin SPD in the SED and VP visors . Berlin 1994.
  • Starting point chaos: Berlin in May and June 1945: 100 documents from life around the Schlesischer Bahnhof . "Helle Panke" for the promotion of politics, education and culture, Berlin 1995, DNB 960662278 .
  • Walter Ulbricht : A new biography . Dietz, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-320-01886-8 .
  • "- To comply with Comrade Walter Ulbricht's request": Background and modalities of a change in leadership . Berlin 1996.
  • with Manfred Terslak: Brothers, hands in one now: The pros and cons of the Unity Party in Berlin . Berlin 1996.
  • with Lutz Heuer: Operative Process “Fuchsbau”, 1953–1961: A story from the Cold War era in Berlin . Berlin 1998.
  • Ulbricht's path to the top of power: stations between 1945 and 1954 . Berlin 1998.
  • Walter Ulbricht's late reforms and their opponents , Helle Panke, Gesellschaftswisschaftliches Forum, Berlin 1999 (= booklets on GDR history , booklet 59), DNB 95895223X .
  • Ebert and Ebert: Two German statesmen. Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), Friedrich Ebert (1894–1979): a double biography . edition ost, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932180-50-X .
  • with Lutz Heuer: Red “recorders”: SDA, the unloved opposition Social Democrats in Berlin, 1948–1961 . Berlin 2000.
  • The rabbi's son in the Politburo: Albert Norden - Stages of an unusual life . edition ost, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89793-058-7 .
  • (as ed.) Braunbuch: War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin . Reprint edition ost, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 .
  • Otto Ostrowski - the erased mayor: A fate in Berlin during the Cold War . Berlin 2004.
  • with Manfred Behrend: REVIEWS - Latest time - The rabbi's son in the Politburo. Albert Norden - Stages of an Unusual Life. Berlin 2001 . In: Journal of History . 52 Vol. 4, 2004, p. 388.
  • with Lutz Heuer: Ernst Torgler : A life in the shadow of the Reichstag fire . April 25, 1893 Berlin – January 19, 1963 Hanover . Berlin 2006.
  • October 20, 1946: The first post-war election in Berlin. Prehistory - course - results - background - consequences . Berlin 2006.
  • Bernhard Quandt (1903–1999): A veteran of Mecklenburg . Rostock 2006.
  • Dr. Otto Ostrowski, Mayor of Finsterwalde . In: The memory. Annual publication of the Finsterwalde District Museum and the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Finsterwalde District Museum e. V. , H. 11, 2008.
  • with Lutz Heuer: Franz Neumann (1904–1974): Front man in Berlin during the Cold War . Trafo, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-926-3 (= Small Series Biographien BzG , Volume 23).
  • My life in three dictatorships: episodic stories from an insider in the Cold War . Autobiography, Verlag am Park - edition ost, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89793-286-9 .
  • Stalinallee and Hansaviertel: Berlin building activity during the Cold War . Verlag am Park / edition ost, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89793-191-6 .

literature

  • Heinz Mohnhaupt, Hans-Andreas Schönfeldt: Norm enforcement in Eastern European post-war societies (1944–1989). Introduction to legal development with source documentation . Frankfurt / Main 1997
  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Götz: The RIAS also had its good points . The little paper , October 22, 2012.
  2. ^ Sunken addresses: Articles in the editions of "Lebensringe" 2001-2014 by Dr. Norbert Podewin . Senior Center Bethel Friedrichshain, Berlin, 2015, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Podewin, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SED functionary and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2014
Place of death Berlin