Rudolf-Dietrich Nottrodt

Rudolf-Dietrich Nottrodt , also Rolf-Dietrich Nottrodt (born May 17, 1927 in Plauen ; † April 2, 2017 ) was a German politician . He was a SED functionary and former Lord Mayor of Erfurt .

Life

Nottrodt grew up in Plauen as the son of a worker and attended elementary and high school there. In 1944 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and a member of the NSDAP . He then took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was taken prisoner by the Americans in May / June.

After his release he was a farm worker, joined the KPD in 1945 and became a member of the SED in 1946 when the SPD and KPD were forced to merge. He became chairman of the anti-fascist youth committee at the city council of Erfurt and local chairman of the FDGB Erfurt. In 1946 he did the Abitur at the preparatory college , then studied social sciences and received a diploma in 1950 .

In 1950 he became the personal advisor to the long-standing Mayor of Erfurt, Georg Boock . Numerous other offices and functions followed: 1950/51 Director of the Erfurt Social Insurance Fund, 1952 to 1954 Secretary for Agitation and Propaganda of the SED City Management Erfurt, 1954 Sector Head in the SED District Management Erfurt , 1954 to 1960 1st Secretary of the District Committee of the National Front Erfurt and 1960/61 Deputy Chairman of the Erfurt District Council .

After Georg Boock's death on June 23, 1961, Nottrodt was elected Mayor of Erfurt on August 17, 1961 at an extraordinary meeting of the city council. During his term of office in 1965 the construction of residential buildings began on Johannesplatz , the expansion of the Leonhard bastion of the Petersberg Citadel as a viewing platform and, from 1967 to 1970, numerous houses in the old town area were demolished for the urban redesign of the city center (Sterngasse, area between Juri-Gagarin-Ring , Hospitalplatz, Lindenberg, Neuerbe and Meyfarthstraße), start of construction of 11- and 16-story high-rise buildings on the Ostring, widening of the Juri-Gagarin-Ring to four lanes, planning of three residential blocks, four point high-rise buildings, a kindergarten and the Hotel Kosmos, built in 1975.

On January 8, 1969, at his own request, Nottrodt was replaced as Lord Mayor by Heinz Scheinpflug at an extraordinary plenary meeting of the Erfurt city council and transferred to the German Academy for Political Science and Law in Potsdam-Babelsberg as Secretary of the Scientific Council . There he received his PhD in 1970. rer. pole. with a thesis on " The ability of the members of the local parliament to increase their political effectiveness in the socialist public ".

1972 to 1990 Nottrodt worked as a lecturer for constitutional and administrative law at the technical school for political science "Edwin Hoernle" Weimar . With the turning point and peaceful revolution , he was put into retirement.

Nottrodt lived in Erfurt. In 2009, he and his wife Rita were the guest of honor at the Mayor Andreas Bausewein 's New Year's reception . Nottrodt died at the age of 89.

Awards

• 1959 Medal of Merit of the GDR
• 1966 Gold badge of honor from the Society for German-Soviet Friendship
• 1969 Honorary title of Honored Activist

literature

• Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-8012-0034-5 , pp. 230-231.
• Andreas Herbst :  Nottrodt, Rolf-Dietrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Chronicle of the city of Erfurt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New mayor for Erfurt . In: Neues Deutschland , August 19, 1961, p. 2.
2. ↑ Erfurt.de
3. ↑ New mayor in Erfurt . In: Neue Zeit , January 10, 1969, p. 2.
4. ↑ TLZ newspaper for Erfurt: It should be green this year , Erfurt, January 16, 2009
5. ^ Obituaries in the Thüringer Allgemeine from April 8th and 22nd, 2017.