Rudolf Dolling

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Rudolf Dölling (born November 4, 1902 in Roßbach ; † August 3, 1975 in Berlin ) was a major general of the National People's Army in the GDR, as well as ambassador to the USSR.

Life

After finishing elementary school, Dölling worked as an unskilled worker. In 1918 Döllig went to Germany and worked as a farm worker and wheelwright . In 1919 he became a member of the KJVD . In 1922 he was expelled from Germany for political activity and returned to the ČSR . From 1924 to 1939 Dölling worked as a party functionary in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KPČ). In 1932 he married the union official Emmi Effenberger . From 1933 to 1939 he was secretary of the central board of the Red Trade Union International (RGI) in Prague, from 1935 to 1939 he was a member of the Czech Parliament. In 1937/38 he was the editor in charge of the newspaper Die Junge Garde . In 1939 Dölling emigrated to Moscow. There he initially worked for the International Red Aid . From March to December 1941 Dolling was a student at the school of the Communist International in Pushkino and, after its evacuation, in Kuschnarenkowo. After completing his studies, Dölling worked there until the school was closed in August 1943 as a teacher in the Czechoslovak-Sudeten German group. Then he was a member of the extended leadership of the KPČ. From 1943 to 1944 he was a teacher at the Antifa school in POW camp No. 165 in Taliza and editor and spokesman for the Sudeten German freedom broadcaster in Moscow.

In 1945 Dölling initially returned to Czechoslovakia. In 1945/46 he worked for the Central Committee of the KPČ in Prague and, together with Bruno Köhler, was responsible for the resettlement of Sudeten German anti-fascists in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ). In 1946 he moved to the Soviet occupation zone himself. From the beginning he was active in the party apparatus of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany . With his entry into the main training administration (HVA) of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR on September 15, 1949, he immediately received the rank of chief inspector. From 1949 to 1952 Rudolf Dölling was then Deputy Head of the HVA and Head of the Political Culture Department and from 1952 to 1955 he was Deputy Head of the Barracked People's Police (KVP) and Head of Political Administration. With the establishment of the KVP in 1952 and the introduction of new ranks, Dölling's rank of chief inspector was changed to that of major general. So Dölling was one of the officers of the GDR who were first awarded the rank of general on October 1, 1952.

From 1955 to 1957 Rudolf Dölling studied at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces " KJ Voroshilov " in Moscow, where he graduated with a diploma as a military scientist. After completing his studies, Rudolf Dölling became Deputy Minister for National Defense and Head of Political Administration of the NVA in 1957 . On August 1, 1959, Major General Dölling was released from the NVA.

From 1958 to 1967 Dölling was a member of the Central Committee of the SED and from 1958 to 1963 a member of the People's Chamber and a member of the People's Chamber's Foreign Policy Committee.

From 1959 to 1965 Rudolf Dölling was then the GDR's ambassador to the USSR, and then a consultant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

tomb

His urn was in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the memorial of the socialists at the Berlin Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

Rudolf Dölling was one of the few officers and generals of the NVA whose names were later given to units of the NVA (FRR-9 / Fla Raketenregiment-9).

There is a Döllingstraße in Leipzig-Paunsdorf.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Closer to Moscow . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1965.


personal data
SURNAME Dolling, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general of the NVA and politician (SED), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossbach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1975
Place of death Berlin