Richard Smolorz

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Richard Smolorz (born September 7, 1913 , † after 1958) was a German police officer in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR . He was the head of the German Border Police (DGP).

Life

Smolorz, a trained miner, was drafted into the Wehrmacht for military service in World War II . He came in 1943 in Soviet prisoner of war and attended an anti-fascist school . With the 4th group of the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was intended to reinforce the Ulbricht, Ackermann and Sobottka groups , he and Richard Dombrowsky and Fritz Schälicke arrived in Dresden on May 28, 1945 .

In 1945 he became a member of the KPD (1946 of the SED ), a member of the German People's Police and was Deputy Police President in Dresden until 1949. From November 1, 1951 to July 31, 1952, in the rank of chief inspector, he was  brief head of the main border police department in the main administration of the German People's Police (HVDVP) (successor to Erich Kurschinski ), which in May 1952 became the main administration of the German border police to the Ministry of State Security (MfS) was subordinated. On August 1, 1952, he was replaced by Hermann Gartmann , reassessed to colonel and until 1954 he was Gartmann's deputy and chief of staff at the main administration of the German Border Police in the MfS and the State Secretariat for State Security (SfS). From 1954 to 1955 he was the deputy of the chief of the German border police for general questions, from 1955 deputy of the chief for training under the new chief Heinrich Stock. In November 1956 he was employed as head of the section administration south of the DGP. After the border police were hived off from the MfS and reintegrated into the Ministry of the Interior on March 1, 1957, he was commander of the 3rd brigade of the German border police in Erfurt until 1958 . In 1958 he was replaced by Leander Kröber as commander.

Awards

literature

  • Torsten Diedrich, Hans Ehlert u. Rüdiger Wenzke, In the service of the party - Handbook of the armed organs of the GDR, Links Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86153-160-7 , p. 710.
  • Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke : The generals and admirals of the NVA. A biographical handbook , 4th edition. Ch.links, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-86153-209-3 , p. 231.

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. ↑ Protocol No. 19/57 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of April 29, 1957 - Federal Archives
  3. ^ New Germany , March 18, 1958, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Smolorz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1913
DATE OF DEATH after 1958