Rainer Knolle

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Rainer Knolle (born October 3, 1918 in Reichardtsdorf ; † August 6, 1986 ) was a party functionary of the SED . For decades he was the second secretary of the SED district leadership in Gera and a member of the central committee of the SED .

Life

Knolle was born shortly before the end of the First World War in October 1918 as the son of a bricklayer near Stadtroda . After elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter from 1933 and worked in this profession in Gera until November 1938. After that, he completed his compulsory service at the RAD in the winter half of 1938/39 until March 1939 and then until August 1939 to work as a locksmith again. Knolle was drafted into the Wehrmacht for the attack on Poland , from which he was provisionally released in December 1939. From 1940 until January 1941 he returned to his old profession. After that, Knolle was drafted again and as a Wehrmacht soldier with the rank of corporal, at the end of the war in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, which he spent in various camps in the USSR until 1948.

After training in the anti-fascist camps in Wilna and the central camp in 2041, Knolle was released to his Thuringian homeland in the Soviet occupation zone in April 1948 . He became a member of the SED and initially worked as an instructor for the SED district leadership in Gera-Stadt from May 1948 to 1950. He then worked as a department head within the district leadership until 1951, after which he was appointed 2nd secretary of the SED district leadership Gera-Stadt until the summer of 1952.

When new districts and also districts were formed in the course of a comprehensive regional reform in the GDR in the summer of 1952, the SED had to follow suit with its management structures, which were based on the regional authorities. This created an enormous need for management. This also gave Knolle a new position, he was appointed 1st Secretary of the SED district leadership Gera-Land from August 1952 and remained in this office until 1956. Subsequently, he was delegated by the SED to the seventh year-long course at the Karl Marx party college , which he completed in April 1957. After returning to Thuringia, Knolle was initially employed briefly from May 1957 as an instructor in the SED district leadership in Gera until he took over the post of 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Jena-Land in the same year.

Due to the technology location Jena and its employees also living in the Jena area, who were therefore in the area of ​​responsibility of Knolle, his district party leadership was given a prominent position. This was also expressed in the fact that at the fifth party congress of the SED in July 1958, as the first secretary of an SED district leadership at the time, Knolle was directly elected as a full member of the central committee of the SED. In July 1959 he moved to the SED district leadership in Gera, where Knolle was appointed second secretary. He remained in this post until his death in 1986, making him one of the party officials who remained in such an office the longest.

In the early 1960s, Knolle graduated from the technical college for agriculture, which he graduated in 1965 as a state-approved farmer. In 1969 Knolle graduated as an agricultural engineer. In February 1986 the 67-year-old SED functionary officially resigned from his full-time job at his own request for reasons of age and health. Consequently, he was on the XI. SED party congress also not re-elected to the SED Central Committee. After a short, serious illness, Knolle died on August 6, 1986.

Honors

  • 1961 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
  • 1968 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
  • 1978 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
  • 1983 Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

Web links

literature

  • Mario Niemann The secretaries of the SED district leadership 1952–1989 (= Schöningh Collection on the past and present ). Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-506-76401-0 , p. 277.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 6, 1961 p. 3
  2. ^ New Germany of October 4, 1968 p. 3
  3. ^ New Germany of October 5, 1978 p. 2
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 6, 1983, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Tuber, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SED)
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichardtsdorf
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1986