Paul Sonnenburg

Paul Sonnenburg (born March 31, 1907 in Berlin ; † January 6, 1988 ) was a German politician ( SED ). He was the head of the light and food industry department of the SED Central Committee .

Life

Sonnenburg, the son of a sales representative , attended elementary and middle school . He completed an apprenticeship as a machine foreman and then worked in this profession as well as a carpenter and calculator. He passed an examination to become a foreman . Sonnenburg joined the KJVD in 1923 and the KPD in 1926 .

After the National Socialists “seized power ” in 1933, he continued to work illegally for the KPD. Despite his former membership in the KPD, Sonnenburg was able to work from 1934 to 1942 as a manager of a furniture factory and from 1942 to 1944 as a technical merchant in a German propeller factory. In 1944/45 he was drafted for military service in the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war in 1945 he was an examiner, then head of the labor office in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . In 1946 he became a member of the SED. From 1946 to 1948 he was a district councilor in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The Soviet district headquarters in Prenzlauer Berg installed Sonnenburg as deputy district mayor on July 15, 1948 (until September 1948), after the district assembly had rejected him twice against the votes of the SED faction. Sonnenburg also becomes head of the Prenzlauer Berg employment office.

From 1948 to 1952 he was - at Fritz Lange's company - senior consultant and member of the Central Commission for State Control. In 1952/53 he was the director of the German Trade Center (DHZ) furniture and wood goods. From 1953 to 1955 he was head of department in the Ministry of Light Industry of the GDR. In 1954/55 he was secretary of the central party leadership and party organizer of the SED Central Committee. From 1958 to 1961 he headed the light and food industry department of the Central Committee of the SED. Sonnenburg was also a member of the economic commission at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit (1957, 1959 and 1977)
• Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit (1982)

literature

• Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 320.
• 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. 871.
• Andreas Herbst, Gerd-Rüdiger Stephan, Jürgen Winkler (eds.): The SED - history, organization, politics. A manual . Dietz, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-320-01951-1 , p. 1085.
• Andreas Herbst:  Sonnenburg, Paul . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Horstmann: Logic of arbitrariness. The Central Commission for State Control in the Soviet Zone / GDR from 1948 to 1958 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-412-07401-2 , p. 72.
2. ↑ Klaus Grosinski: Prenzlauer Berg. A chronicle . Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-320-02151-6 , p. 168.
3. ↑ Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 1982, p. 4.