Rudolf Agsten

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Agsten in the People's Chamber in 1960

Rudolf Agsten (* 31 October 1926 in Leipzig , † 20th April 2008 in Bernau bei Berlin ) was a functionary of the GDR - Block Party LDPD . From 1954 to 1989 he was a member of the People's Chamber .

Life

Agsten was born as the son of a postal worker in Leipzig. In his hometown he attended high school, among other things, which he left prematurely in January 1944 with a certificate of maturity due to an obligation to do the Reich Labor Service in the course of the air raids on Leipzig . In June 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . While trying to break out of the pocket between the Red Army and the US Army in the Dübener Heide , Agsten was seriously wounded by US forces on April 28, 1945 and transported by them to a German reserve hospital in Halle (Saale) . When the crew changed on July 1, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets .

Agsten joined the LDP on October 15, 1945 while he was still in hospital. After his dismissal, he got a job as a full-time employee in March 1946, initially at the Halle district association and later at the Saxony-Anhalt regional association of the LDP. Meanwhile, Agsten was temporarily active as the head of the state party school in Schierke . From October 1948 he worked as a journalist for the Liberal-Demokratie Zeitung , the party organ of the LDP in the state of Saxony-Anhalt , of which he was last editor-in-chief. In February 1949 Agsten was elected to the central board of his party. In August 1953 he was appointed head of the political department at the party leadership of the LDPD in Berlin . In June 1954, Agsten was finally appointed secretary of the party leadership or the central executive committee. He held this position until his release in November 1989. From July 1957 he was also a member of the political committee of the central executive committee of his party.

From 1953 to 1961, Agsten completed a correspondence course in journalism at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . This was followed by a distance learning course in foreign policy at the Academy for Political Science and Law between 1963 and 1965 . From 1965 to 1967 he held an unscheduled traineeship at the Institute for General History of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ; 1969 Agsten was due to the cooperation with the full-time employees LDPD Manfred Bogisch submitted work The development of the anti-fascist democratic and anti-imperialist attitude among members of the Liberal Democratic Party (the party founded by 1 party congress in July 1946) to Dr. phil. PhD . His PhD B to Dr. sc. phil. took place in 1976 by means of the work written together with Bogisch The LDPD on the way to the GDR. On the history of the LDPD in the years 1946–1949 at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In addition, Agsten was awarded the Facultas Docendi by the University of Leipzig in 1988, where he immediately received an honorary professorship for the political organization of socialist society.

Agsten was married and had two children.

Member of Parliament

Agsten (5th from left) visiting a riot police unit while the Wall was being built in 1961

Since the state elections in 1950 , Agsten was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt and chairman of the LDP parliamentary group there. After the administrative reform in 1952 , he was a member of the Halle district assembly . From 1954 to 1989 Agsten was a member of the People's Chamber and LDPD parliamentary group leader. Until 1961 he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the last two years as its chairman. At the same time he was deputy chairman of the Interparliamentary Group. In 1973 he became chairman of the rules of procedure committee, and from 1983 he was a member of the Presidium of the People's Chamber. At times he was also represented in various committees, such as the Presidia of the Peace Council of the GDR , the Society for German-Soviet Friendship and the Association of Journalists , and worked as Vice President of the German-Arab Society and a member of the National Council of the National Front . The highest state award that was bestowed on him in the GDR was the 1986 Silver Star of Friendship between Nations . In 1982 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In April 1988 he was an official guest of the Bundestag at the invitation of the FDP parliamentary group . In October 1989 Agsten retired from all social functions due to a heart attack.

Publications

  • with Manfred Bogisch : Decision for the future. The LDPD in the struggle to consolidate the anti-fascist-democratic order and its role in the founding of the GDR (= LDPD publications. Volume 6). Der Morgen, Berlin 1969, DNB 740542370 .
  • with Manfred Bogisch: bourgeoisie at the turning point. The development of the anti-fascist-democratic and anti-imperialist attitude among the members of the LDPD in 1945/1946. Der Morgen, Berlin 1970, DNB 454543212 (also: Promotion A, MLU Halle-Wittenberg 1969).
  • with Manfred Bogisch: LDPD on the way to the GDR. On the history of the LDPD in the years 1946–1949. Der Morgen, Berlin 1974, DNB 750105372 (also: Promotion B, AdW Berlin 1976).
  • with Manfred Bogisch: On the history of the LDPD 1949–1952 (= LDPD writings. Volume 23). 2 parts. Der Morgen, Berlin 1982, DNB 550701818 .
  • with Manfred Bogisch and Wilhelm Orth: LDPD 1945 to 1961 - in solid alliance with the working class and its party. Der Morgen, Berlin 1985, DNB 205009026 .
  • Liberal Democrat since 1945. Memories without nostalgia. Helle Panke, Berlin 2005, DNB 976049651 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Agsten  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ LDPD information. Volume 42, No. 10, 1988, p. 30.
  2. ^ Neue Zeit , October 4, 1986, p. 2.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit, May 3, 1982, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Agsten, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German LDPD radio operator, MdV, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2008
Place of death Bernau near Berlin