Paul Bismark

Paul Bismark (born February 22, 1888 in Blesendorf ; † August 19, 1951 ) was a German politician ( SPD / SED ). He was chairman of the SED state committee in Brandenburg and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Life

The son of a master tailor attended elementary school in Blesendorf in the Ostprignitz district and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Wittstock . In 1907 he became a member of the SPD. He went on a journey as a carpenter journeyman and did his military service from 1910 to 1912. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, most recently as a private . He then worked as a carpenter and union secretary of the German Woodworkers' Association and as chairman of the SPD local executive committee in Perleberg . From 1922 to 1933 he was deputy chairman of the SPD sub-district Prignitz and 1932/33 city councilor in Wittenberge . In November 1932 he was a candidate for the SPD in the Reichstag.

On February 4, 1933, he appeared as a speaker at a demonstration of the " Iron Front " in Wittenberge against the seizure of power by the National Socialists . From 1933 to 1945 he worked first as a representative, then as a commercial clerk at Singer AG . At the end of the war in April 1945, he was called in to the Volkssturm in Wittenberge .

After the war he became involved again in the SPD and was chairman of the SPD district executive in Westprignitz in 1945/46. From October 1945 to May 1946 he acted as head of the social welfare office of the city of Wittenberge. Since April 1946 a member of the SED, he was full-time chairman of the SED district committee Westprignitz. At the same time, he had been a member of the secretariat of the SED state committee in Brandenburg since June 1946.

From October 1946 until his death in August 1951 he was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament. From September 1947 to July 1950 he was a member of the SED party executive. From 1948 to 1950 he was a member of the First and Second People's Council of the Soviet Zone and the Provisional People's Chamber of the GDR. In February 1950 he resigned from the Provisional People's Chamber by resolution of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SED. Anton Plenikowski took over his mandate . After Friedrich Ebert left as Lord Mayor of East Berlin in December 1948, he headed the SED of the State of Brandenburg with Willy Sägebrecht as equal chairman until December 1949 . He then resigned from his office for health reasons, but remained a member of the SED state committee in Brandenburg.

Bismark died at the age of 63.

literature

• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst (Ed.): SED-Kader The middle level. Biographical Lexicon 1946 to 1989 . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 114f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minutes No. 73 of the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on February 21, 1950 (Federal Archives)