Richard Fischer (Admiral)

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Richard Fischer (born March 24, 1906 in Ahrensdorf ; † December 15, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German communist, former concentration camp inmate, who led the establishment of the German People's Police in East Berlin and the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic .

Life

Fischer was born the son of a farm worker and a tool hardener, grew up in Berlin and finished school after 8th grade. From 1920 he learned the trade of a builder and cabinet maker. He then practiced this profession as a journeyman until 1928 and later worked as a stage carpenter and from 1929 to 1932 as a carpenter and foreman. In 1930 he joined the KPD , went underground after the National Socialists came to power and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1934. Sentenced to two and a half years in prison for "preparation for high treason", he was imprisoned in Berlin until 1936 . After his release, Fischer worked again as a carpenter in Berlin until 1936, but was arrested again in 1937 and initially imprisoned in Brandenburg prison until the end of the war , and from 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In April 1945 he managed to escape during a work assignment in Berlin.

Just a few days after the end of the war, Fischer joined the police forces in the Soviet occupation zone on May 15, 1945 and was deputy head of the criminal police in Berlin-Neukölln until 1946 . In 1946 he joined the SED . Subsequently, until 1947, Fischer was deputy head of the criminal police in Berlin-Friedrichshain . In that year he was promoted to head of the criminal inspection department of the People's Police Headquarters in Berlin and held this position until 1949. After that he was head of the organization and administration department of the Berlin People's Police until 1950. After attending a course at the Administration Academy in Forst-Zinna, he was appointed head of the cadre department of the Maritime Police Headquarters on August 1, 1950, with the rank of chief inspector. On October 1, 1952, he was awarded the military rank of rear admiral corresponding to a chief inspector. From November 1952 to 1954 he was deputy head of the cadre administration and head of the department for sea and air units of the barracked people's police .

He then resigned from military service and was the GDR's ambassador to North Korea from August 1954 to December 1959 . In 1960 he was reactivated for military service in the Ministry of National Defense . There he was given the rank of major general. He helped found the German soldier broadcaster 935 . Then he was deputy head of the political administration for general questions until 1961 and in 1962 head of the censorship office there . From 1962 to 1967, Fischer served as a military attaché in the Soviet Union . After his return in 1967 he became director of the Strausberg / Dresden military library as the successor to Major General Rudolf Menzel , who in turn was his successor as military attaché in Moscow. He held this position until his retirement on January 31, 1971.

Awards

literature

  • Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 , pp. 92/93.
  • Hans-Joachim Fieber, Lothar Berthold, Michele Barricelli (eds.): Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Volume 2: Klaus Keim: Caden - Gzeck. Trafo, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-352-8 , p. 171.
  • Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Fischer, Richard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Manfred Drews, Max Stoll: Soldiers from the very beginning. Five images of life. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical manual. Links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 , pp. 35ff .: Police designations and their transfer to military ranks on October 1, 1952.
  2. ↑ It started with five bangs. Terra incognita GDR: The short life of the German soldier broadcaster "935". In: new Germany . March 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, most recently Rear Admiral of the People's Navy and Major General of the MfNV
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrensdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1991
Place of death Berlin