Robert Holland

This article is about the politician Robert Holland. For other people, see Robert de Holand .

Robert Holland (born December 13, 1916 in Albrechts , † December 18, 1966 in Erfurt ) was a German politician ( SED ).

Life

Holland, son of the communists Wilhelm Holland (1893–1980) and Frieda Holland (1893–1979) attended elementary school in Albrechts from 1923 to 1931. In 1931 he began an apprenticeship as a toolmaker at the Simsonwerk Suhl and joined the KJVD in the same year . In October 1931 he went to the Soviet Union with his parents, where he learned the trade of toolmaker in Tula from 1932 to 1934 . In 1932 he became a member of the Komsomol , in 1934 he received Soviet citizenship. From 1934 he worked as a lathe operator in Tula. While his father was fighting in the International Brigades in Spain , he was arrested by the NKVD together with his mother and brother Willy in October 1937 and sentenced to ten years in camp and labor service for alleged counterrevolutionary activity. In March 1940 he was released from prison and rehabilitated. He then worked as a lathe operator and head of the metallurgy department in Magnitogorsk and Chelyabinsk .

In the summer of 1946 Holland returned to Germany in the Soviet Zone . From 1946 to 1948 he worked as an interpreter in the SAG Feinmeßzeugfabrik Suhl. In January 1948, after his release from Soviet citizenship, he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). From 1948 to July 1952 he was cultural director at the SAG Simson plant in Suhl.

He then acted from August 1952 to February 1954 as Secretary for Economic Policy of the SED district leadership in Suhl . Then he took part in a one-year course at the party college "Karl Marx" until February 1955 . From March 1955 to March 1956 he was secretary of the district council and from March 1956 to June 1958 deputy chairman of the council of the Suhl district. Holland was also a member of the Suhl District Assembly from October 1955 until his death in 1966 . He completed a distance learning course at the party college "Karl Marx" from 1955 to 1963 with a degree in social science. From June 1958 to December 1966 Holland was finally chairman of the District Party Control Commission (BPKK) of the SED Suhl.

Awards

• 1958: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 313.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 333.
• Mario Niemann : The secretaries of the SED district leadership 1952–1989. Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, p. 24.
• Mario Niemann , Andreas Herbst : SED squad: The middle level. Biographical encyclopedia of the secretaries of the state and district managements, the prime ministers and the chairmen of the district councils 1946 to 1989 . 1st edition. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76977-0 , p. 247 f .
• Wladislaw Hedeler , Inge Münz-Koenen (eds.): "I came to your country as a guest ...". German opponents of Hitler as victims of the Stalin terror. Family fates 1933-1956 . Lukas Verlag for Art and Intellectual History, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86732-177-8 , p. 229.