Rudolf Riss

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Rudolf Riss (born July 2, 1923 in Leipzig , † January 17, 1985 ) was a German police officer. He was Lieutenant General and Deputy Minister of the Interior of the GDR .

Life

The son of a working-class family completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1938 to 1941 after attending primary school. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941 and became a British prisoner of war in 1945 , which he spent in Norway until 1946.

After returning to his hometown in 1946 he became a member of the SED and a member of the German People's Police (DVP). As VP-Oberrat (major) he was u. a. Head of the People's Police District Office (VPKA) Görlitz. He completed his visit to the Friedrich Engels Military Academy in Dresden in 1963 with the rank of lieutenant colonel of the VP as a qualified military scientist and was awarded the academy's special diploma. On June 29, 1970 he was appointed Major General by the Chairman of the National Defense Council of the GDR , Walter Ulbricht , and in 1971 as the successor to Lieutenant General Willi Seifert as Deputy Minister of the Interior and Chief of Staff of the DVP. On June 26, 1975, Ulbricht's successor in the office of Chairman of the National Defense Council, Erich Honecker , promoted him to lieutenant general. As the successor to Major General Ewald Eichhorn , he was appointed 1st Deputy Minister in 1976 and elected 2nd Chairman of the Dynamo sports association . For many years he was a member of the SED district leadership of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR (MdI) and from 1981 until his death in 1985 he was a candidate for the Central Committee of the SED .

Riss was buried in the central cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde on Pergolenweg.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Herbst :  Rudolf Riss . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Andreas Herbst (eds.), Winfried Ranke, Jürgen Winkler: This is how the GDR worked. Volume 1: Lexicon of organizations and institutions, departmental union management , League for Friendship between Nations (= rororo-Handbuch. Vol. 6348). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-16348-9 , p. 223.
  • 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. 277.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Demmer, Eberhard Haueis: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels" 1959 to 1990. A documentation. Dresden 2008, p. 130 .
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , June 30, 1970, p. 1.
  3. ^ Neue Zeit , June 27, 1975, p. 1.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 19, 1985
  5. ↑ Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. Anniversaries of birth and death of those buried in the cemetery in 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Riss, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer and general of the People's Police
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1985