Paul Gohr

Paul Gohr (born June 9, 1899 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ; † March 1, 1983 ) was a German politician ( KPD / SED ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime .

Life

Gohr, son of a coachman, grew up with eleven siblings. He lost his mother in childhood, she died in 1904. After attending primary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a saddler . In 1913 he joined the “Fichte” workers 'sports club , later also the “ Friends of Nature ” and the Socialist Workers' Youth . From 1917 he was organized in a union .

In September 1917 he was drafted for military service in the First World War. In September 1918 he left the troops and on November 9, 1918 was involved in the revolution in Berlin and became a member of the soldiers' council . In 1919 he joined the KPD and was cell leader of the KPD in Wilmsstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1920/21 . Later he was also a member of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition and the Red Front Fighters League . In 1921 he married Käthe Skett. From this marriage two sons were born. Between 1922 and 1924 he was self-employed, then he worked as a saddler and bag maker for the Deilke company. Later he was employed as a gate guard, then as a train attendant and switchman for the elevated railway . As a representative of Berlin-Kreuzberg, he was a member of the central strike leadership during the BVG strike in 1932 .

After the National Socialists "seized power " in 1933, Gohr took part in the communist resistance. On March 4, 1933, his apartment was searched and Gohr was arrested the following day. He spent three days at the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz and was then in solitary confinement in the Lehrter Strasse cell prison in Berlin-Moabit . After he was released, he had to report to the police every day for several weeks. After that Gohr worked illegally for the KPD again. He received and distributed illegal material from Czechoslovakia and worked with Willi Plen and Willi Trümper . Gohr was involved in the work of the resistance group around John Sieg and a member of an illegal KPD group in Berlin-Ahrensfelde led by Max Grabowski . Gohr evaded being drafted into the Volkssturm and hid in the spring of 1945 on his garden property in Berlin-Ahrensfelde.

After the end of the war, Gohr was mayor of Ahrensfelde (Niederbarnim district) in 1945/46 and head of the local KPD / SED group. From April to autumn 1947 he was a consultant for trade and supply in the economics and finance department of the SED's Brandenburg State Executive Committee . From 1949 to 1963 he was a consultant or main consultant in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR. In 1957 Gohr passed the state examination in law after five and a half years of distance learning .

literature

• Central Committee of the SED congratulates Comrade Paul Gohr . In: Neues Deutschland , June 9, 1979.
• Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , pp. 232 and 930.
• Hans-Joachim Fieber et al. (Ed.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon . Volume 2 [C-G]. Trafo Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89626-352-8 , p. 271.