Paul Quiet

Paul Ruhig (born July 1, 1922 in Hohenleipisch ; † October 7, 2000 ) was a German trade unionist ( FDGB ). The Chairman of the Central Committee of the Teaching and Education Union was calm .

Life

Quiet, the son of a working-class family, attended elementary school and completed a commercial training between 1937 and 1940. He then worked as an assistant. On September 1, 1940, at the age of 18, he joined the NSDAP . Between 1941 and 1945 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and military service in the Wehrmacht . From May to October 1945 he was in Voronezh in Soviet captivity .

After returning to Germany, he was initially an assistant teacher in Hohenleipisch. In 1946 he became a member of the Free German Youth and completed a new teacher course . From 1946 to 1948 he was a teacher of history and physics in Grünewald ( Liebenwerda district ). In 1946 he became a member of the SED . From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a department head on the state board of the teaching and education union in Halle (Saale) , and in 1951/52 as deputy department head on the central board of the teaching and education union. In 1952/53 he studied at the trade union college "Fritz Heckert" in Bernau near Berlin . From 1954 to 1964 he served as head of department and secretary for school policy and pedagogy of the teaching and education union. From 1956, Ruhig completed a distance learning course in pedagogy at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he graduated as a qualified pedagogue.

From 1964 to January 24, 1985, Ruhig was chairman of the Central Committee of the Education and Training Union. At the 10th meeting of the central board, he was adopted as chairman in the presence of Harry Tisch and Margot Honecker and replaced by the previous FDJ functionary Helga Labs . From 1965 to 1987 he was a member of the FDGB federal executive committee. Vice-President of the Fédération Internationale Syndicale de l'Enseignement (FISE) in the World Trade Union Confederation was also calm .

Fonts

• The policy of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the government for the socialist development of the school system in the German Democratic Republic . University of the German trade unions "Fritz Heckert", Bernau 1961.
• The responsibility and the tasks of the trade union for the improvement of socialist education in schools and educational institutions . Grandstand, Berlin 1963.
• Our children, our future . Grandstand, Berlin 1964.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze (1972), in silver (1978) and in gold (1987)
• Medal of Honor "For outstanding and meritorious trade union work in the GDR" (1985)

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , p. 266.
• 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 , p. 745.
• Andreas Herbst : Quiet, Paul . In: Dieter Dowe , Karlheinz Kuba, Manfred Wilke (Hrsg.): FDGB-Lexikon. Function, structure, cadre and development of a mass organization of the SED (1945–1990). Berlin 2009.
• Olaf Kappelt : Brown Book GDR. Nazis in the GDR Berlin historica, 2009, p. 494, ISBN 978-3939929123

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany from January 25, 1985.