Pyotr Vasilyevich Zolotuchin

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Pyotr Wassiljewitsch Solotuchin ( Russian Пётр Васильевич Золотухин ; * 1897 ; † 1968 ) was a Russian historian, rector of Leningrad University and officer who worked in Germany after the end of World War II as an employee of the Soviet military reorganization and reconstruction in Germany (SMAD) of schools and universities in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR was involved.

Life

Opening of the Berlin University on January 29, 1946 in the Admiralspalast, for which Solotuchin was responsible as head of the SMAD's Department of Popular Education . Behind the pedel in the first row on the left General Bokow , on the right the new Rector Johannes Stroux in his gown after the handover, 2nd from left Mayor Arthur Werner

Solotuchin came from a farming family who lived in southern Russia. In the early twenties, as Pyotr Ivanovich Nikitin reports in his book, Lenin's wife, NK Krupskaja , came through their village on agitation trips and noticed a young man with a metal ring in his ear who was guarding the village herd. She noticed his sharp mind, which is why she handed him a letter of delegation to study in Petrograd.

Before the Second World War, Zolotuchin became a university professor and first rector of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute A. Herzen, then rector of the University of Leningrad . During the Leningrad blockade from 1941 to 1944 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Leningradskaya Pravda" until he was appointed first deputy to the People's Commissar for Education of the Russian Federation. He held this position until he left for Germany. Solotuchin was from 1945 to 1948 head of the national education department of the SMAD with the rank of lieutenant general.

When on September 4, 1945 Marshal Zhukov ordered “measures to prepare the universities for the purpose of resuming classes to be carried out” and to submit information on the condition of all universities and the workforce, Solotuchin was commissioned with the execution as the chief person responsible at SMAD . In particular, his task was the control and confirmation of the staff, the control of the contingents of students, the curricula, the scientific work and the activities of all universities in the Soviet zone as a whole.

After working for the SMAD , Zolotuchin returned to the Soviet Union and was rector of the State Pedagogical Institute VI Lenin in Moscow from 1948 to 1951 .

literature

Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in Germany 1945–1949. The Soviet zone of occupation. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sergej Tjulpanow: Germany after the war (1945-1949) . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987, photo after p. 160, ISBN 3-320-00742-4
  2. ↑ Pyotr I. Nikitin: Between dogma and common sense. How I “Sovietized” the universities in the German occupation zone . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997. p. 29
  3. ^ A b Siegward Lönnendonker: Free University of Berlin. Foundation of a political university. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-428-06490-9 .
  4. ↑ Pyotr I. Nikitin: Between dogma and common sense. How I “Sovietized” the universities in the German occupation zone . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1997. p. 29
  5. ^ Manfred Heinemann: University officers and the reconstruction of the higher education system in Germany 1945-1949. The Soviet zone of occupation. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 3, ISBN 3-05-002851-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Solotuchin, Pyotr Vasilievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Золотухин, Пётр Васильевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet officer and employee of the SMAD
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
DATE OF DEATH 1968