Richard Dombrowsky

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Richard Dombrowsky (born July 1, 1911 near Potsdam , † April 3, 1987 in East Berlin ) was a German police officer in the GDR . He was the head of the criminal police and the head office of the German People's Police (HVDVP).

Life

Dombrowsky, unskilled worker, had belonged to the Red Front Fighters Union (RFB) in the Weimar Republic from 1929 . In November 1933 he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) and later the German Labor Front .

In June 1943 he was drafted as a soldier into the German Wehrmacht and in October 1943 was taken prisoner by the Soviets . He joined the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD) and attended an Antifa school . With the 4th group of the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was intended to reinforce the Ulbricht, Ackermann and Sobottka groups , he and Richard Smolorz and Fritz Schälicke arrived in Dresden on May 28, 1945.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Dombrowsky joined the German People's Police (DVP) in 1945 and became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and with the compulsory unification of the SPD and KPD in 1946 a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1947 to 1951, as VP inspector, he was the head of the criminal police in the state police authority of Saxony-Anhalt, and from 1950 also deputy head of the state authority of the DVP Saxony-Anhalt. From 1951 to 1955 he was head of the main criminal police department in the main administration of the German People's Police (HVDVP) (successor to August Mayer ). Then in 1955 he was appointed chief inspector of the VP Deputy Operational of the head of the HVDVP and head of the Berlin fire protection inspection. From 1956 to 1959 he was finally head of the HVDVP (successor to Karl Maron ) and deputy minister of the interior of the GDR . On July 15, 1957, the chief inspector reassessed him to major general. After his SA membership became known, he was given a party penalty by the SED in June 1959 and released from his functions in the DVP. The Ministry of the Interior officially withheld the reason for the resignation and spoke of the resignation "for health reasons".

He then worked as an officer in the customs administration of the GDR and, after retiring in 1976, was retired as a customs officer. D. awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. Dombrowsky died after a long, serious illness at the age of 76.

literature

  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 223.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Morré: Behind the Scenes of the National Committee: The Institute 99 in Moscow and the German policy of the USSR 1943-1946 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-64582-X , p. 213.
  2. ↑ Frank Bösch / Andreas Wirsching : The Post-War History of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) with regard to possible personal and material continuities at the time of National Socialism , 2015, p. 127f.
  3. ↑ High state awards given . In: Neues Deutschland , May 1, 1976, p. 5.
  4. ^ Obituaries in Neues Deutschland from April 14th and 16th, 1987.


personal data
SURNAME Dombrowsky, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer of the People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1987
Place of death East Berlin