Rudi Reinwarth

Rudi Reinwarth (born December 23, 1907 in Lauter , Erzgebirge , † March 22, 1971 ) was a German party functionary of the GDR bloc party NDPD .

Life

Reinwarth, son of a miner, completed an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter after attending elementary school . In 1925 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He worked first as an employee, then as an editor on a newspaper. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he participated in the resistance against National Socialism . He was arrested in 1933 and was imprisoned in the concentration camp until 1935 . In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , where he attended an antifa school .

In 1947 he returned to Germany, to the Soviet occupation zone , and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). He initially worked as a textile worker. From 1947 to 1948 he was the full-time first secretary of the Werdau district leadership of the Kulturbund . In 1948 he was one of the founders of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD). In 1948, Reinwarth initiated the founding of the Thuringian state board of the NDPD, whose chairmanship he relinquished to co-founder Günther Ludwig in June 1949 . From 1949 to 1952 he was a member of the executive committee of the NDPD. He was then from 1952 to 1955 head of department in the NDPD party executive, and 1952/1953 editor-in-chief of the NDPD central organ National-Zeitung . Later he was head of the chair at the NDPD party school in Waldsieversdorf .

From 1949 to 1958 he was a member of the German People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR .

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze (1956 and 1964)

literature

• Handbook of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic. 2nd electoral term . Kongress-Verlag, Berlin 1957, p. 353.
• Martin Broszat et al. (Ed.): SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, p. 1002.
• Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 700.
• Armin Owzar : Socialist alliance policy and commercial-industrial middle class: Thuringia 1945 to 1953 . Urban & Fischer, Jena 2001, p. 185.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1964, p. 7.