Otto Auerswald
Otto Auerswald (born November 8, 1900 in Lauter / Sa. , † February 20, 1962 in East Berlin ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism and chief inspector and major general of the People's Police (VP) in the GDR .
Life
Otto Auerswald was born in the Ore Mountains as the son of a home worker. He attended elementary school and then took up an apprenticeship as a locksmith. He then worked initially as a factory worker before being drafted into military service in 1918. In 1920 he joined the KPD . Auerswald was involved in the resistance against the Kapp Putsch in 1920 and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, which was, however, amnestied . In 1921 he was a participant in the Central German uprising . Afterwards he worked as a homeworker, basket maker, construction worker and day laborer. In 1924 he became political and defense leader of the KPD sub-district Aue-Schwarzenberg. In 1932 he became administrator of the sports home of the Central Association for Workers' Sports. In 1933 he was again arrested and treason and explosives crimes to five years in prison convicted, he in Waldheim prison was serving. In 1941 he was arrested for the second time and sentenced to six months' imprisonment followed by protective custody (until early 1942) for favoring prisoners of war. In 1944 he was arrested again and was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
After the end of the Second World War , from June 1945 he was involved in building up the police in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. involved and was ordered a little later to the State Criminal Police Office in Dresden . From the end of 1945 he was an instructor for the KPD district leadership. In 1946 Auerswald became secretary of the SED district leadership in Zwickau and the following year police president in Zwickau with the rank of VP inspector. From 1950 to 1956 he was head of the main transport police department in the Ministry of the Interior , from 1954 as chief inspector of the VP , most recently as major general. Organizationally, this belonged alternately to the Ministry for State Security and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR. At the age of 57 he retired in 1957 and last lived as a major general a. D. in Berlin. His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.
Awards and honors
Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver (1960)
From 1982 to 1990 the combat group unit of the Aue depot carried the honorary name Otto Auerswald. The football stadium and a dance restaurant in Lauter also bore his name. In his honor there was the Otto Auerswald memorial run in the Ore Mountains town of Lauter for two decades.
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Otto Auerswald . In: BStU : Who was who in the Ministry for State Security? (PDF, 537 kB), MfS-Handbuch V / 4, Berlin 1998, p. 6.
- Andreas Herbst , Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of Functionaries , 1994, p. 22.
- Torsten Diedrich, Hans Ehlert u. Rüdiger Wenzke, In the service of the party - Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR , Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of October 7, 1960
- ↑ http://sozialistenfriedhof.de/67.html?&L=0%20&type=1
- ^ New Germany of October 7, 1960
- ↑ Die Volkspolizei (magazine) No. 4/1988
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auerswald, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chief Inspector of the Transport Police and Major General of the People's Police in the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louder / Sa. |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1962 |
| Place of death | Berlin |