Rudolf Albrecht (politician, 1902)

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Rudolf Albrecht (born February 14, 1902 in Königshütte , † February 6, 1971 ) was a German functionary of the GDR block party DBD . and politicians ( VdgB , DBD and SED ) and State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR .

Life

The son of a miner worked as a self-employed farmer in Brieselang after attending primary school and a horticultural school . In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the KPD . He worked as a locksmith and designer in industrial companies and was an active trade unionist in the German Metalworkers' Association . During the National Socialist era, he was persecuted for his political convictions and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1935 .

After the Second World War he became a member of the KPD again and in 1945/46 headed the KPD local group in Bredow (Osthavelland) . He was also chairman of the Osthavelland district soil commission and chairman of the Bredow local committee, then the Osthavelland district committee of the Association of Mutual Farmers Aid (VdgB). In 1946, after the forced unification of the SPD and KPD, he became a member of the SED. In the state elections in the Soviet Zone in 1946 , Albrecht was elected to the Brandenburg state parliament, where he became the parliamentary group chairman of the VdgB. From June 1947 to 1949 he was state chairman of the VdgB in Brandenburg , and from November 1947 he was a managing member of the VdgB's main committee.

In May 1948 he became the first chairman of the newly founded Democratic Peasant Party of Germany (DBD) in Brandenburg. In 1951 he was replaced. From 1948 to 1952 he was a member of the party executive committee and the secretariat of the DBD. In the state elections in 1950 he was re-elected to the state parliament for the DBD and acted there as the DBD parliamentary group chairman. At the zone level , he was deputy party chairman of the DBD from May 1948 to October 1949.

In 1948/1949 he was a member of the German People's Council and then from 1949 to 1954 a member of the Provisional People's Chamber and the People's Chamber . He was a member of the budget and finance committee of the People's Chamber.

From 1949 Albrecht was head of the “Personnel and Training” department in the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior. From October 1949 to November 1950 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Supply of the GDR. On November 15, 1950, he was appointed State Secretary of the State Secretariat with its own division for the food and beverage industry. In December 1952 he fell victim to a "purge" and was removed from his office as State Secretary by decision of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers, but retained his mandate from the People's Chamber. In 1953 Albrecht was rehabilitated and again a member of the SED. From 1954 he worked on behalf of the Ministry of Mechanical Engineering of the GDR as a government representative and technical expert for the construction of heavy machinery systems abroad. Due to a serious illness in 1960 joined Albrecht in retirement .

Albrecht died in an accident shortly before his 69th birthday and was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde on Pergolenweg.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Broszat , Gerhard Braas, Hermann Weber (eds.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany 1945–1949. 2nd unchanged edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55262-7 , p. 859.
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 3: Lexicon of functionaries (= rororo manual. Vol. 6350). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16350-0 , p. 18.
  • Friederike Sattler: Economic order in transition. Politics, organization and function of the KPD / SED in the state of Brandenburg during the establishment of the central planned economy in the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–52 . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6321-2 , p. 916.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 11, 1949, p. 2.
  2. ^ First government meeting . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 1950, p. 2.
  3. ↑ People's Chamber decided on the plan in 1953 . In: Berliner Zeitung, December 18, 1952, p. 1.
  4. ^ Volkskammer member Rudolf Albrecht in Radeberg . In: Berliner Zeitung, August 27, 1954, p. 2.
  5. ^ Obituary in Neues Deutschland , February 9, 1971, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Obituary notice of his family in New Germany , February 10, 1971, p. 8.
  7. ^ New Germany , March 7, 1971, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and functionary (VdgB, DBD, SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigshütte
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1971