Otto Last
Otto Last (born April 14, 1906 in Gustow ; † April 17, 1990 ) was a German politician ( SED ) and Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR .
Life
After attending elementary school, he learned the job of wheelwright from 1920 and worked between 1924 and 1927 in Essen, Cologne, Dresden and Nuremberg. He then worked as a carpenter and unskilled worker in São Paulo until 1929 .
Otto Last belonged to the Communist Youth Association since 1926 and became a member of the KPD in 1929 . Until 1933 he worked as a line and dock worker in Stettin , then again as a wheelwright. In 1935 he was arrested for anti-fascist activity and sentenced to three years in prison for “ preparing for high treason ” . He was then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until 1939 . After his release he worked as a cabinet maker. From February 1943 until the end of the Second World War he was a soldier in the Penal Battalion 999 .
From August 1945 he was secretary of the KPD in the Randow district , after the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD he was secretary of the SED. In 1946 he was elected to the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament, to which he was a member until 1950. From 1947 to 1948 he attended the Karl Marx party college , after which he was first secretary of the SED district leadership in Schönberg until 1949 .
In July 1949 he was hired by the People's Police . From February 1950 he worked in the Ministry for State Security (MfS) as head of the Mecklenburg State Administration. In September 1951 he was promoted to Deputy Minister for State Security and in May 1952 to Inspector General. In February 1953, his rank was converted to major general. In October 1957 he left the ministry with Ernst Wollweber and then headed the Wismut property management of the MfS. In 1960 he was demoted to colonel. He then worked as an officer in a special assignment as a cadre manager in the Black Pump gas combine . In 1966 he retired. Last lived as a pensioner in Cottbus and was active as a member of the district and district committee of the anti-fascist resistance fighters in Cottbus.
Awards
- 1954 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
- 1976 Karl Marx Order
literature
- Jens Gieseke : Last, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Klaus Schwabe: State election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1946 . State Parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ed.), Schwerin 1996, pp. 98–99.
- Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Helge Heidemeyer , Daniela Münkel , Arno Polzin, Walter Süß : The MfS Lexicon. 3rd updated edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-86153-900-1 , p. 220 ( online version ).
Web links
- Literature about Otto Last in the state bibliography MV
- Otto Last in the biographical database MV-Data (accessed on November 24, 2016).
Individual evidence
- ^ Preliminary finding aid for secretariats of ... - BStU - Bund.de
- ^ Letter of congratulations on the 75th birthday in Neues Deutschland on April 14, 1981
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Last, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED), Deputy Minister for State Security |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gustow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1990 |