Rudolf Kotulan

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Rudolf Karl Erich Kotulan (born May 7, 1906 in Berlin ; † February 17, 1967 ) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime , a politician ( KPD / SED ) and a senior police officer in the GDR . He was head of the district authority of the German People's Police in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Kotulan, the son of a cap maker, attended elementary school and learned to be a furrier . Since 1927 he was organized in a union , in 1930 he joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He was the cell cashier of the Red Aid and from 1932 local group leader of the KPD in Berlin- Falkensee .

After the National Socialists “ seized power ” in 1933, Kotulan continued to work illegally for the KPD and was temporarily imprisoned. Since the spring of 1934 he and Willi Zingler were involved in the illegal reconstruction of the KPD sub-district Berlin-Stettiner Bahnhof . Kotulan worked as a furrier until 1940. He then worked as a grinder, among others in the gear factory in Friedrichshafen, Berlin-Wittenau plant . On February 4, 1942, Kotulan was arrested as a member of Robert Uhrig's group , indicted by the “ People's Court ” together with Werner Seelenbinder and sentenced to five years in prison in September 1944 “for preparing to commit high treason ” . During the trial, Otto Schmirgal took on accusations directed against Kotulan in order to at least save his life. Kotulan was imprisoned in Brandenburg-Görden prison and in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of the war .

In 1945 Kotulan rejoined the KPD and in 1946 became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). In 1945 he joined the German People's Police (DVP). Kotulan was the district manager, inspection manager and deputy head of the DVP state authority in Brandenburg . After the formation of the districts in the GDR , he served as head of the district authority of the DVP Frankfurt (Oder) from 1952 to 1959, initially with the rank of inspector and from 1957 as a colonel of the DVP. Kotulan was a member of the SED district leadership and member of the District Day Frankfurt (Oder). In October 1959, he was reprimanded for non-party behavior, removed and transferred to another district. Later he lived as a Colonel a. D. in Dresden .

Awards

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, Berlin 1964, p. 186.
  • 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. 185.
  • Ursula Schoop: Kotulan, Rudolf . In: Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990 . Volume 1: Abendroth - Lyr . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 428.
  • Torsten Diedrich, Hans-Hermann Hertle (ed.): "Hornet" alert. The secret chief reports of the People's Police on June 17, 1953 . Metropol, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-936411-27-0 , p. 224.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New way. Organ of the Central Committee of the SED for Questions of Party Building and Life (1956), p. 1237.
  2. ↑ Official notice . In: Neues Deutschland , September 22, 1954, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Kotulan, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotulan, Rudolf Karl Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (KPD / SED), resistance fighter and police functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1967