Peter Kolmsee

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Colonel Kolmsee (1971)

Peter Kolmsee (born March 25, 1926 in Cochstedt , Aschersleben district ; † February 6, 2017 in Mettmann ) was a German NVA officer and military historian .

Life

As the son of a teacher (NSDAP member 1933-1945) Kolmsee attended elementary schools in Schkölen and Merseburg . From 1936 to 1941 he was a student at the secondary schools in Merseburg and Kattowitz . From 1941 to September 1943 he attended the commercial school and the higher commercial school in Katowice.

Wehrmacht and captivity

In the Deutsches Jungvolk since 1936 , he was accepted into the Hitler Youth in 1940 . Without a HJ rank, he led the news crowd of the HJ banner Kattowitz in 1942/43. From September to December 1943 he was a worker in the Reich Labor Service (Dept. 126). In January 1944 he became a soldier in the army (Wehrmacht) . From March 1944, he was stationed in southern France with Reserve Jäger Battalion 38. From July 1944 to January 1945 he took part in a course for reserve officer applicants in Görlitz . He then fought as a private in an infantry regiment on the war front in Upper Silesia . At Moravian Ostrau he was taken prisoner by the Soviets . From April 30, 1945 to December 23, 1949 he was in Auschwitz prisoner of war camp and in camps 7099/20 and 7099/4 in Karaganda in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic . After almost starving to death in the open air, he worked for four years as a brigadier and tunnel and company commander in a mine . In 1948 he was delegated for three months to the anti-area school in Karaganda. In 1948/49, as a member of the anti-fascist group, he was responsible for youth work in the camp and led circles for the short course in the history of the CPSU (B) . From July to December 1949 he was a student at the Antifa Central School 2041 in Talisi. After another six months in Nizhny Novgorod , he was released to the newly founded German Democratic Republic .

GDR

The German People's Police hired him as a foreman in 1950. In the same year he was promoted to Commissioner (April 1), High Commissioner (August 1) and People's Police Council (December 1). In 1951 he married a skilled agricultural worker. In 1952 a son was born. In the barracked people's police , Kolmsee was promoted to major on May 1, 1954 and to lieutenant colonel on June 15, 1958 . He completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" (1950-1954) and the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig (1957-1960). In 1960 he obtained his diploma as a military historian in Leipzig with the grade “very good”.

After six years as a political officer in the armed organs of the GDR, he joined the Political Administration in the Ministry of National Defense on March 1, 1956, as a sub-department head . He was since 1 March 1957 main subject teacher of history at the engineer officer school in Dessau and was on 1 February 1959 as Deputy Head of Department of Social Sciences at the intelligence officer school in Döbeln added. In the same function, he switched to the Military Medical Section at the University of Greifswald on January 1, 1962 . There he was appointed Head of Department for War and Armed Forces on January 1, 1964, and was entrusted with teaching. On September 1, 1965, he became director of the Institute for Social Sciences. The Philosophical Faculty (Dean Lothar Rathmann ) of the Karl Marx University graduated him magna cum laude as Dr. phil.

On October 7, 1968, he was promoted to colonel . The Minister for Higher Education of the GDR ( Ernst-Joachim Gießmann ) appointed him on April 1, 1969, as a university lecturer for the history of the German labor movement and military history. In 1971 he went through a course to obtain the "Higher Education Partial State Examination" (military education and military psychology). On November 30, 1975 as Colonel d. R. Discharged from the National People's Army , he became the civil director of the chair for the history of medicine and military medicine. The Minister for Higher Education in the GDR ( Hans-Joachim Böhme ) appointed him associate professor for this subject in 1982. In 1986 the promotion B .

turn

At the time of the political change and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , he was dismissed from university. Three days before German reunification , he presented his book, ready for printing, on the development of the military medical system. It was only published in 1997 by the Bundeswehr . Kolmsee had been a widower since 2008 and lived in an Erkrath retirement home. He died of pneumonia in the Mettmann hospital .

Memberships

Peter Kolmsee (2016)

Awards

Works

  • The partisan struggle in the Soviet Union. About the character, content and forms of partisan struggle in the USSR 1941–1944. German military publisher, Berlin 1963.
  • From the life and work of Maxim Zetkin . Maxim Zetkin Communist and doctor, surgeon in war and peace, health politician and scientist, the revolutionary role model of the members of the Military Medical Section Maxim Zetkin . Greifswald 1988.
  • Timeline of the military history of the German Democratic Republic 1949–1988 .
  • Data from the history of the military medical service in the GDR 1949–1990 .
  • Under the sign of Aesculapia. An introduction to the history of the military medical service from the very beginning to the end of the First World War . Beta-Verlag, Bonn 1997.
  • with Rüdiger Döhler : Prussia's medical service in the wars of unification . Military Medical Monthly 8/2016, pp. 254–258.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Handwritten curriculum vitae from March 21, 1971 in the personal file, Federal Office of Administration, Strausberg branch
  2. ↑ Personnel file in Strausberg
  3. ↑ a b Timetable of military medicine GDR (militaermedizin.de)
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The role and function of the German Society for Defense Policy and Defense Sciences in the preparation of the Second World War by fascist Germany .
  5. ↑ Dissertation topic : From the earliest beginnings of aid for wounded warriors in the tribes of the dissolving gentile order in the phase of "military democracy" to the military medical system of the absolutist states.
  6. ↑ Communication from son Hans-Jürgen Kolmsee, Blaustein
personal data
SURNAME Kolmsee, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NVA officer and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochstedt
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2017
Place of death Mettmann